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  • Vanderbilt University

    Vice Provost Dennis Hall: Space shuttle is costly but beneficial

      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

    Jul. 11, 2011

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    Nashville airport’s main terminal named to honor engineering alum

    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

    Jul. 11, 2011

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    Biomedical engineer: Glowing parathyroid gland can reduce endocrine surgery risk

    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

    Jul. 1, 2011

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    Students try to hack ‘Bank of Vanderbilt’ in network security class

    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

    Jun. 22, 2011

  • Vanderbilt engineer pioneer in algae-as-biofuel movement

    Vanderbilt engineer pioneer in algae-as-biofuel movement

    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

    Jun. 14, 2011

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    Professor, alumna are Nashville Emerging Leader finalists

      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

    Jun. 10, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    BME faculty member receives NSF CAREER award

    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

    Jun. 8, 2011

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    Vanderbilt nuclear waste expert elected to American Nuclear Society executive committee

    James H. Clarke, civil and environmental engineering professor of the practice and professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, has been elected to the executive committee of the American Nuclear Society’s Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization Division. His three-year term begins June 30, 2011. The mission of the DD&R… Read More

    Jun. 6, 2011

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    Vanderbilt engineers stamping out low cost nanodevices

    A simple technique for stamping patterns invisible to the human eye onto a special class of nanomaterials provides a new, cost-effective way to produce novel devices in areas ranging from drug delivery to solar cells. The technique was developed by Vanderbilt University engineers and described in the cover article of… Read More

    May. 31, 2011

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    Merryman to receive early career Alumni Promise Award from University of Tennessee

    David Merryman, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will receive a 2011 University of Tennessee Alumni Promise award in September. Merryman is one of four 2011 recipients. The Alumni Promise Award recognizes UT alumni no older than 40 who have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement or both. This… Read More

    May. 26, 2011