Research

Dongqing Li — an international leader in “lab-on-a-chip” biotechnology who is joining Vanderbilt as the new H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering — dreams of creating a miniature, portable laboratory the size of a business card, capable of on-the-scene diagnosis of diseases and rapid detection of biochemical warfare agents. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are two of the authors of a research study released today that revealed seafood from the area close to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska currently is not threatened by radioactive materials resulting from underground nuclear tests carried out at Amchitka Island between 1965 and 1971. Vanderbilt Professor and… Read More

Unlike the spectacular movie version, real-life sun storms can’t turn ordinary astronauts into the Fantastic Four. But they can and occasionally do incapacitate expensive and vitally important space systems, like satellites and spacecraft. Sun storms aren’t the only thing space-faring equipment has to cope with. When you throw in the… Read More

Mark D. Does, Vanderbilt assistant professor of biomedical engineering and assistant professor of radiology and radiological sciences, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) award. The NSF CAREER award, given to exceptional junior faculty to support their promising research, will help fund Does’ research and development of new magnetic… Read More

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has selected the Vanderbilt School of Engineering to lead its new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) on Radiation Effects on Emerging Electronic Materials and Devices. The new research program will focus on the impact of radiation – both in space and on the… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering will play an important role in a major new $19 million National Science Foundation (NSF) multi-institutional center to protect the nation’s computer infrastructure from cyberattacks while improving its reliability. Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) is one of eight university collaborators in the new… Read More