Research
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Bellan research story among six regional Emmy nominations for Vanderbilt
Mechanical engineer Leon Bellan is working to create artificial human capillary blood vessels using cotton candy and gelatin. Bellan A VU Inside story about his research – Cotton Candy Organs – was nominated Nov. 19 in the Informational/Instructional Series category, and was… Read MoreNov. 23, 2015
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Students from award-winning Whites Creek academy visit school’s wind-solar demo site
Students and teachers from Whites Creek’s Academy of Alternative Energy, Sustainability and Logistics visited the School of Engineering's wind-solar energy demonstration site on Love Circle for a day of 'hands-on learning.' When Whites Creek High School students and teachers looked for a ground-mount solar cell installation to visit,… Read MoreNov. 23, 2015
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Three-time national rocketry champs are off to a strong start defending their title
The Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Lab is off to a strong start defending their national rocketry title in the 2015-16 NASA University Student Launch Challenge competing against a field of 39 other university teams. On Nov. 14 the student team successfully launched… Read MoreNov. 20, 2015
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VISE symposium gives first look at medical technology, recap of tech unveiled this year
A symposium out of Vanderbilt University’s newest institute will provide participants a first look at medical technology coming out of our labs and a recap of tech unveiled at conferences around the world this year. The research to be presented at the Dec. 16 Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering… Read MoreNov. 16, 2015
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GM engineer: Today’s crash test dummies cost up to $500K, saving more lives
The U.S. Department of Transportation aired a series of "Vince and Larry" public service announcements on seatbelt use from 1985-1999. Today’s undergraduates were in preschool during the “You Could Learn a Lot from a Dummy” series of PSAs encouraging seatbelt use, but the ads were memorable for… Read MoreNov. 10, 2015
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Vanderbilt Ph.D.’s new company provides researchers ‘X-ray’ on cellular processes
Researchers in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries long have used cells as mini-factories to produce fuels, medication and other products. They know what goes into cells and what comes out — for instance, yeast cells take in sugar and produce alcohol. What researchers don’t know is what is happening inside… Read MoreNov. 6, 2015
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Solar sail is secondary payload on 2018 Orion flight – NASA PI
Instead of looking at space atmosphere as a toxic vacuum, look at it as an asset, said Les Johnson, who handed a silver 4-inch square of solar sail material as light as small bird’s feather to an audience member. As the piece of sail traveled through a standing-room-only crowd in… Read MoreNov. 6, 2015
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Engineering alum among youngest African American tenured professors in computer science
James Hill, an associate professor of computer and information science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has become one of the youngest African Americans to become a tenured professor in computer science at a research university in the United States. Hill gained that distinction in August, when his tenure appointment in… Read MoreNov. 5, 2015
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Vanderbilt’s medical capsule robots’ hardware, software goes open-source
Addisu Taddese, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship recipient, holds a medical capsule robot. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Researchers around the globe who want to customize medical capsule robots won’t have to start from scratch – a team from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering did the preliminary work for… Read MoreNov. 4, 2015
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VUSE volunteers encourage career goals at pair of Society of Women Engineers events
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering volunteers take middle school girls through an experiment about the environment on Saturday at the Society of Women Engineers national conference. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Hundreds of middle school girls learned how a mini car runs off solar power, how to ionize water… Read MoreOct. 25, 2015