Research

Leslie describes how she’s putting her civil engineering degree to work in this YouTube video. You can explore and engineer clean energy, too Vanderbilt alumna Leslie Labruto’s early career trajectory illustrates just how many ways a young civil environmental engineer can accommodate both her heart’s leaning and her tangible… Read More

Vanderbilt NASA Student Launch Team: (Front, L-R ) William Emfinger, Andrew Voss, Brandon Dimmig, Shivaprem Bernath, Chris Twedell, Fred Folz, Dexter Watkins, Mitchell Masia, (Back, L-R) Patrick Foran, Jordan Salik and Kevin Bush. Organizers of the NASA Student Launch Program (SLP) have announced a final field of 27 collegiate… Read More

Vanderbilt School of Engineering group: (L-R) Daniel M .Fleetwood, Andrew L. Sternberg, Robert A. Reed, Cher Xuan Zhang, Michael P. King, Stephanie L. Weeden-Wright, Robert A. Weller, Elizabeth C. Auden, Ronald D. Schrimpf and Brian D. Sierawski. Paper first-authored by engineering graduate student wins IEEE Outstanding Conference Paper Award As… Read More

Two Vanderbilt School of Engineering graduates — the co-founder of an alternative energy company and the co-inventor of a portable exoskeleton that helps paraplegics to walk — are among five Vanderbilt alumni who have been named to Forbes magazine’s  30 Under 30. The… Read More

The most popular Vanderbilt research stories of 2013 plumbed mysteries of the brain, examined complex social phenomena, shed light on dark matter, uncovered a surprising link among our three greatest health threats and more. Of the top ten stories, Akos Ledeczi and Kenneth Pence with Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated… Read More

From left, Scott Guelcher, Jeffrey Davidson, Christopher Nelson and Craig Duvall showed that an enzyme-blocking molecule released by a biodegradable scaffold can enhance wound healing in a mouse model. (photo by Susan Urmy) Biomedical and chemical engineers at Vanderbilt University, working with a pathologist,… Read More

Robert L. Galloway Jr. has accepted a position on the editorial board of Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, a journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Robert Galloway Galloway, whose… Read More

  Professor of Computer Science Doug Schmidt films a video for Coursera. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland have teamed up to introduce a new approach to massive open online courses, or MOOCs – a two-part, sequenced course offered through the digital learning… Read More

Eugene LeBoeuf is the third Vanderbilt environmental engineering faculty member in two years to be accepted into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a board certified environmental engineering member. Eugene LeBoeuf LeBoeuf, associate professor of civil and environmental… Read More

Two faculty members at Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Gautam Biswas, professor of computer science and computer engineering, and Robert Reed, professor of electrical engineering, were announced this month as recipients of one of the association’s highest… Read More