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https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-sub/wp-content/uploads/sites/282/2025/09/29152523/Dong-video.mp4   A team of researchers led by Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University, have developed a magnetic robotic valve to provide minimally invasive intervention for gastroesophageal reflux disease and possibly other organ system disorders. Xiaoguang Dong The paper, “Magnetic soft… Read More

A new PBS Kids series created to help children better understand the impact of weather and climate took instructional cues from Jeremi London, associate provost for academic opportunity and associate professor of mechanical engineering, who played a role in the show’s development. Called Weather Hunters, the animated… Read More

Image of neurons inside a mouse’s brain.   Growing up, Daniel Gonzales loved science. He had a subscription to Popular Science magazine that his sister renewed for him each year, and he marveled at the scientific breakthroughs. He dreamed of one day doing the same. When he got to… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have received a U.S. National Science Foundation CIVIC Innovation Challenge grant to develop innovative gunshot detection technology using machine learning that could become a model for communities nationwide. Will Hedgecock, principal investigator at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, is leading the development. Co-PIs of… Read More

Ayan Mukhopadhyay, senior research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University, has received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop technology that uses artificial intelligence to address unauthorized road closures in Nashville, Tennessee. Ayan Mukhopadhyay The $697,211 award is part of NSF’s… Read More

Schematic of the experimental s-SNOM apparatus. (created by Ryan Kowalski and Niclas Müller)   Josh Caldwell, professor of mechanical engineering and Director of the Interdisciplinary Materials Science graduate program at Vanderbilt University, and Alex Paarmann of the Fritz Haber Institute, led an international collaborative research project that successfully… Read More

Çağlar Oskay, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, has been selected as a fellow of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics. Çağlar Oskay Oskay, who heads the Multiscale Computational Mechanics Laboratory (MCML), is being recognized “for significant contributions… Read More

By Jill Clendening A team led by Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center biomedical engineers and surgeons has published results of a large clinical trial showing that use of a near-infrared autofluorescence (NIRAF) probe device improves interoperative identification of parathyroid glands (PGs). The biomedical engineers and surgeons published results… Read More

Yuankai Huo Vanderbilt researchers have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a smart microscope system that uses artificial intelligence to help scientists better understand how cells behave, particularly in diseases like cancer. Yuankai Huo, assistant professor of computer science and electrical and… Read More

The Wond’ry (Vanderbilt University) The Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s cross-disciplinary innovation space, was integrated into the School of Engineering effective July 1. As part of the realignment, entrepreneurship efforts have transitioned to the Owen School. “We are investing significantly in innovation and entrepreneurship programming to further unite our campus in interdisciplinary discovery… Read More