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Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships… Read More

President Joe Biden announced Feb. 3 his intent to appoint Corey E. Thomas, BE’98, as one of 14 new members of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) advises the White House on the reliability, security, and preparedness of vital communications… Read More

By Lena Anthony First-year nursing students, U.S. Army soldiers and a middle school science class might seem very different at first glance. But when you consider the recent work of Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering Gautam Biswas, the similarities become clear. Gautam Biswas (Photo by John Russell). Each group has… Read More

A Vanderbilt engineering team won top spot in a U.S. Department of Energy STEM competition. Team members are (L-R) Maggie Chudik, Alexandra Filipova, Arielle Kopp and Jacqueline Quirke. As the DOE challenge applicant, Kopp  presented the project at the Jan. 26-27 finals in Colorado. She has been offered a summer internship… Read More

Dr. André L. Churchwell was honored with a Diamond Award for lifetime achievement in advancing diversity during a Not Alone Foundation celebration that brought together prominent leaders in business, education, entertainment, government and more at the Byers Theatre in Sandy Springs, Georgia, on Jan. 21. In addition, a new… Read More

https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-sub/wp-content/uploads/sites/282/2023/02/20233944/maha-twitter.mp4 The American Society of Civil Engineers has honored Vanderbilt engineering professor Sankaran Mahadevan with the 2023 George Winter Award for technical contributions as a structural engineer, creativity as a professional musician, composer and teacher, and exemplary research in the fields of risk and reliability and machine learning. Read More

Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation in Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering, was appointed to the National Science Board by President Joe Biden on Jan. 13. Keivan Stassun (VU/John Russell) The National Science Board created the… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s online graduate program in computer science rose five places to No. 31 in the 2023 U.S. News and World Report ranking. It also ranked #18 in online master’s programs in computer science for veterans. The annual survey assesses online degree programs in computer science, computer engineering, software… Read More

Mikail Rubinov, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded $600,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop new computational methods for analysis of large-scale brain activity data. NSF award will be used to develop new computational methods for analysis of large-scale brain activity data. The three-year project is funded… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering professor Mona Ebrish has been designated a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the highest professional grade of the IEEE. Mona Ebrish Prior to joining the Vanderbilt faculty in January 2023 as an assistant professor electrical and computer engineering, Ebrish was a… Read More