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Franz Baudenbacher, associate professor of biomedical engineering and physics and deputy director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education (VIIBRE), is one of four Vanderbilt entrepreneurs and innovators recognized by the university’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC) recognizes excellence in innovation through… Read More

Senior leadership from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently visited Vanderbilt University to learn more about the innovation ecosystem in Nashville and about translational research being conducted on campus. Read More

Ghina Absi, assistant professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a 2023 Engineering Unleashed Fellow for her leadership in undergraduate engineering education. Ghina Absi Last summer, Absi participated in an Engineering Unleashed Faculty Development workshop on entrepreneurship and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). She… Read More

Provost C. Cybele Raver announced the formation of the Provost’s Science Space Planning Committee, a faculty- and staff-led initiative established to ensure that Vanderbilt’s physical spaces properly serve the needs and goals of scientific research and discovery. The committee, which was charged by the provost on Friday, includes faculty and… Read More

Research led by David Merryman, a professor of biomedical engineering, pharmacology and medicine who holds the Walters Family Chair, has resulted in the development of VU6047534, a new drug that treats pulmonary arterial hypertension—a type of high blood pressure that affects arteries in the lungs and in the heart—without… Read More

Engineering alumna Cynthia “CJ” Warner is one of four Vanderbilt graduates who are 2023 alumni award recipients. The Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board of Directors announced its 2023 alumni award winners Sept. 13. They will be honored during Reunion and Homecoming weekend Nov. 2–5. Cynthia “CJ” Warner (Submitted photo) Warner, BE’80, is the… Read More

Open enrollment starts Wednesday, Sept. 13, for Vanderbilt’s second free ChatGPT online course taught by Jules White, associate dean for strategic learning programs and professor of computer science. The  course is on the Coursera platform and focuses on mastering ChatGPT’s new Advanced Data Analysis tool. White designed his ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis course… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering alumnus Tyler Bernstein, BE’20, (left), chief executive officer, and Jonathan Segal, BS’19, chief operations officer, of Zeno Power (Submitted photo) Zeno Power, a startup initiated through the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s Innovation Center, is one of 11 American companies to receive funding from NASA to develop technologies that could support long-term… Read More

Screenshot of the GeoPACHA web platform. Red triangles denote archaeological features on the landscape. (Wernke/GeoPACHA) A $350,000 grant to develop next-generation archaeological mapping technology will let a Vanderbilt-led research team reveal information about vast settlement systems and human-modified landscapes in the Andes. Steven Wernke Steven Wernke, associate professor and… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a way to more quickly, and precisely, trap nanoscale objects such as potentially cancerous extracellular vesicles using a cutting-edge plasmonic nanotweezer. Novel plasmonic nanotweezer for high throughput parallelized trapping (within seconds) and analysis of nanoscale objects. The practice by Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering,… Read More