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Justin Baba receives 2023 Battelle Distinguished Inventor recognition
Dec. 8, 2023—A Vanderbilt University engineering professor affiliated with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named a Battelle Distinguished Inventor from ORNL. Justin Baba, associate research professor of biomedical engineering, was one of four scientists honored at the Lab’s annual Innovation Awards Dec. 1 in recognition of being granted 14 or more U. S....
Vanderbilt highlights smart mobility research, innovative solutions at Nashville expo
Dec. 5, 2023—Over the next two days, leaders from across the state will convene at Nashville’s Music City Center, where the latest advancements in smart mobility will be experienced firsthand. Vanderbilt is a sponsor and a participant in the event, where faculty and students will exhibit the latest in their smart mobility research and innovation work. The...
Team from Vanderbilt’s LIVE Initiative advances to finals of NSF challenge to improve K-12 learning outcomes
Dec. 4, 2023—By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes researchers from Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music,...
School of Engineering issues one-year fee waiver for Ph.D. program applications
Dec. 1, 2023—The Vanderbilt School of Engineering announced that it is waiving the $95 application fee for candidates applying to its esteemed Ph.D. program for admission in Summer/Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. Those who have already paid the application fee will be given a full refund. All graduate programs in the School of Engineering will also continue...
Engineering undergraduate places second in DOE competition for national lab summer interns
Nov. 27, 2023—Sarah Driscoll, a junior in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the second place national winner in the 2023 IGNITE Off! Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) and hosted by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). The annual Ignite...
Brunger receives 2024 Rising Star Award from Biomedical Engineering Society group
Nov. 20, 2023—Jonathan Brunger, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society-Cellular Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award. CMBE is a special interest group of the BMES. The Rising Star Award recognizes a BMES-CMBE special interest group member who is at their early independent career stage and has made an outstanding impact on the...
Engineering professor De-en Jiang is among world’s highly cited researchers
Nov. 17, 2023—De-en Jiang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and of chemistry, is on this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited the most frequently by other researchers. He is among 6,849 “highly cited researchers” around the world whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field of research and publication year...
Jules White appointed to senior advisor role in Office of the Chancellor
Nov. 16, 2023—Jules White (Vanderbilt University) Jules White, a distinguished computer scientist and expert on large language models and prompt engineering, has been named senior advisor to Chancellor Daniel Diermeier for generative AI in education and enterprise solutions. White’s appointment, which became effective Nov. 1, will build on Vanderbilt’s growing reputation as a world leader in innovation...