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Nilanjan Sarkar Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering is featured in an article “Us. And them. Robots are being created that can think, act, and relate to humans. Are we ready?” that appeared in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic. [Other robots are making tentative forays into the treacherous terrain… Read More

The School of Engineering and the civil and environmental engineering department are hosts of the second annual conference of American Ceramic Society’s Cements Division and Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials July 24-26 at Vanderbilt University. Sponsors of the conference – Advances in Cement-Based Materials:  Characterization, Processing, Modeling and Sensing –… Read More

Julie A. Adams, associate professor of computer science and computer engineering, has been invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, a publication of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The editorial board sets the strategy, scope and direction for the journal. The… Read More

  Dennis Hall “When our students choose to study science and engineering, the nation benefits, no matter whether they apply what they learn to the space program or to other interests that attract them along the way,” says Dennis G. Hall, vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate… Read More

The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority on July 12 will celebrate the completion of the terminal’s phase II renovation and name the main terminal building in memory of Robert C. H. Mathews Jr., the former chairman of the MNAA Board of Commissioners. Robert C. H. Mathews Jr. Mathews, who graduated from… Read More

Microscopic Parathyroid Gland The parathyroid glands – four small organs the size of grains of rice located at the back of the throat – glow with a natural fluorescence in the near infrared region of the spectrum. This unique fluorescent signature was discovered by a team of biomedical engineers and… Read More

Yuan Xue is among the Vanderbilt engineering faculty training computer science leaders of the future to build and maintain more secure networks through innovative teaching methods. For example, students in Xue’s recent network security class created a faux financial institution, called the Bank of Vanderbilt, which allowed them to set… Read More

Cynthia “C. J.” Warner BE’80 so believes that algae fuel can be a direct replacement for fossil fuel that she traded her nearly 30-year career in Big Oil to join a startup with a big vision: to change the world by developing a domestic, renewable source of energy that benefits… Read More

  Rowe Christopher Rowe, interim director of the division of general engineering and director of engineering communications, and Carrie Little Stokes, a Vanderbilt civil engineering alumna and a project manager at engineering firm Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc., are finalists for the 2011 Nashville Emerging Leader Awards. Read More

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering W. David Merryman has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. According to the National Science Foundation, CAREER awards support exceptionally promising college and university junior faculty who are committed to the integration of research and education and are likely to become… Read More