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Retired Monsanto leader recalls years as Vanderbilt basketball standout
Billy Joe Adcock In his four years at Vanderbilt, Bill Adcock (then Billy Joe) accumulated several “firsts” as a Commodore athlete. Not only was Adcock Vanderbilt’s first basketball scholarship recipient, he also became Vanderbilt’s all-time leading scorer and first member of the 1000-point club with 1,190 points (1946-1950). Adcock currently… Read MoreMar. 25, 2014
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Guatemala trip offers students ‘engineering in action’
The Vanderbilt student team – with Cynthia Paschal (left, foreground) and Matthew Walker (center, background), biomedical engineering professors – huddles with the Juan Pablo II hospital administrators to deliver final equipment report summaries. Two engineering professors and 12 undergraduates spent their spring break repairing medical equipment at hospitals in Guatemala… Read MoreMar. 17, 2014
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Engineering students to pitch wound healing product at inventors showcase in Silicon Valley
Graduate students Drew Harmata, left, and Jon Page with Professor Scott Guelcher, right. (Anne Rayner / Vanderbilt) Drew Harmata and Jon Page, graduate students working in the laboratory of Scott Guelcher, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, will pitch their product – a synthetic wound healing foam – to… Read MoreMar. 14, 2014
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Engineering graduate program rises to No. 34 in U.S. News rankings
The School of Engineering’s graduate program improved two positions to No. 34 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2015 graduate program rankings were released today. The school, which tied with Yale University and the University of Colorado-Boulder, ranks ahead of Rensselaer Polytechnic University and the University… Read MoreMar. 11, 2014
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Engineering professors edit journal’s special issue on augmented reality
Vanderbilt engineering professors Jules White and Doug Schmidt, and University of Illinois professor Mani Golparvar-Fard, are guest editors of the February issue of Proceedings of the IEEE, the… Read MoreMar. 6, 2014
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InvisionHeart to pitch at Google Demo Day
InvisionHeart, LLC, a startup based on a wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) system developed at Vanderbilt, has been selected as one of 10 startups nationwide to participate in Google’s inaugural Demo Day April 2. CEO Josh Nickols will pitch the company to a roomful of investors at the spring Silicon Valley event. Read MoreMar. 5, 2014
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Alumni Mentor Program gets high praise from distinguished pair
Junior biomedical engineering student Aditya Karhade and his mentor, cardiologist Andre Churchwell, meet in Churchwell's office in Vanderbilt Medical School's Light Hall. Both are enthusiastic supporter's of the new VUSE Alumni Mentor Program. A new program dedicated to fostering meaningful relationships between Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering students and university alumni… Read MoreMar. 5, 2014
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Engineering graduate student selected to attend Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates
School of Engineering graduate student Alex Walsh has been selected to attend the 64th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, this summer. The Lindau Meeting brings together graduate students and junior researchers with Nobel laureates in physics,… Read MoreMar. 4, 2014
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Goldfarb to demonstrate bionic prosthetics at March 25 Chancellor’s Lecture
Michael Goldfarb, named by Popular Mechanics as one of the “10 Innovators Who Changed the World in 2013,” will deliver the March 25 Chancellor’s Lecture at Vanderbilt University. Goldfarb, holder of the H. Fort Flowers Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt, is renowned for his work… Read MoreMar. 3, 2014
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Engineer proud to be part of sophisticated robot, test chamber project
The IPEMS robot is fully dressed in a standard individual protection ensemble protective gear. For the first time, the military can conduct high-quality and reproducible tests of protective equipment without using a human subject. Photo courtesy of MRIGlobal. The completion of a human-like robot designed to provide data on the… Read MoreFeb. 27, 2014