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CS professor Doug Schmidt appointed RTI board member
Real-Time Innovations, a real-time infrastructure software company in Sunnyvale, Calif., today announced in a company press release the appointment of Douglas C. Schmidt, a pioneer in the middleware industry, to the company’s board of directors. Doug Schmidt Schmidt is a professor of computer science, associate chair of the computer science… Read MoreApr. 18, 2013
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Seniors earn Aeronautics Institute win before Design Day debut
A novel redesign of industrial exhaust stacks by four mechanical engineering seniors that could result in 12% energy savings for their corporate sponsor has earned the student design team a second-place win in the team division at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region II conference last week. (L-R)… Read MoreApr. 17, 2013
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ISIS’ MarmotE team qualifies for DARPA Spectrum Challenge
A team of engineers from Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems is one of 15 teams competing in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Spectrum Challenge. The DARPA Spectrum Challenge is a competition to demonstrate a radio protocol that can best use a given communication channel… Read MoreApr. 16, 2013
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Autism Robot Helps Children
An interdisciplinary team of autism experts and mechanical engineers at Vanderbilt University has created an interactive robot that can help children with autism learn. Read MoreApr. 16, 2013
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Doctoral student awarded Whitaker International Summer Program grant
Spencer Crowder Biomedical graduate student Spencer Crowder has been awarded the highly-competitive Whitaker International Summer Program grant to begin his post-doctoral research in the United Kingdom. The program provides bioengineers and biomedical engineering students from the United States funding to undertake a self-designed overseas project that will… Read MoreApr. 15, 2013
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Engineering graduate student selected to attend Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates
School of Engineering graduate student Lara Jazmin has been selected to attend the 63rd 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, chemistry, and physiology and medicine for a weeklong series… Read MoreApr. 12, 2013
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Army captain ‘honors’ Vanderbilt as Bronze Star Medal recipient
U.S. Army Capt. Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Surratt, a 2004 computer engineering graduate, wasted little time after receiving his Bronze Star Medal to find a way to honor his alma mater. Gabe Surratt, 2004 computer engineering graduate, recently received a Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan. Capt. Surratt, who worked with the… Read MoreApr. 11, 2013
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Vanderbilt ties to ‘worst submarine tragedy’ 50 years ago
The nuclear submarine USS Thresher was lost with all 129 hands 50 years ago today – April 10, 1963 – more than 200 miles off the New England coast during deep-dive tests. It had just departed Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine after a routine overhaul. The Thresher was the… Read MoreApr. 10, 2013
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MIT chemical engineer to deliver 2013 Tis Lahiri Memorial Seminar April 15
Karen K. Gleason, the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the 2013 Tis Lahiri Memorial Seminar at Vanderbilt University. The seminar is sponsored by the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and will be held Monday, April 15, at… Read MoreApr. 10, 2013
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Doctoral student receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Mike Bogdanor, a second year graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded a 2013 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to continue his doctoral research. The NDSEG fellowship is a highly competitive three-year award that pays full tuition… Read MoreApr. 9, 2013