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Engineering alumna CJ Warner is recognized with 2023 Vanderbilt alumni award
Sep. 13, 2023—Engineering alumna Cynthia “CJ” Warner is one of four Vanderbilt graduates who are 2023 alumni award recipients. The Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board of Directors announced its 2023 alumni award winners Sept. 13. They will be honored during Reunion and Homecoming weekend Nov. 2–5. Cynthia “CJ” Warner (Submitted photo) Warner, BE’80, is the Alumni Professional Achievement Award recipient. The award recognizes Vanderbilt alumni...
Jules White offers second free ChatGPT online course; Enrollment opens today
Sep. 13, 2023—Open enrollment starts Wednesday, Sept. 13, for Vanderbilt’s second free ChatGPT online course taught by Jules White, associate dean for strategic learning programs and professor of computer science. The course is on the Coursera platform and focuses on mastering ChatGPT’s new Advanced Data Analysis tool. White designed his ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis course for everyday ChatGPT users who are...
NASA awards $15M to team led by Vanderbilt-initiated startup Zeno Power to support lunar exploration
Sep. 11, 2023—Vanderbilt engineering alumnus Tyler Bernstein, BE’20, (left), chief executive officer, and Jonathan Segal, BS’19, chief operations officer, of Zeno Power (Submitted photo) Zeno Power, a startup initiated through the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s Innovation Center, is one of 11 American companies to receive funding from NASA to develop technologies that could support long-term exploration on the Moon and in space...
Computer science professor helps conduct the largest archaeological imagery survey in the Western Hemisphere using AI
Sep. 7, 2023—Screenshot of the GeoPACHA web platform. Red triangles denote archaeological features on the landscape. (Wernke/GeoPACHA) A $350,000 grant to develop next-generation archaeological mapping technology will let a Vanderbilt-led research team reveal information about vast settlement systems and human-modified landscapes in the Andes. Steven Wernke, associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, is the...
Vanderbilt Engineering First Week of School Photos (Gallery)
Aug. 28, 2023—The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering welcomed students back to school on August 23. Preceding the first day of classes, Vanderbilt Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, Krishnendu “Krish” Roy, spoke to students at the Vanderbilt Engineering Convocation on August 21. During the event, students and faculty members took a “selfie break” to get pictures...
Institute for Software Integrated Systems celebrates 25 years of growth
Aug. 25, 2023—The Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt celebrated its 25th anniversary on Sept. 7 in a daylong event that showcased the institute’s national and international impact on cyber-physical systems, security, education, model-integrated computing and distributed large-scale system integration. The event was held in the Student Life Center ballroom and Vanderbilt community members were welcome...
Biomedical researcher Audrey Bowden organizes inaugural ‘Nature’ conference on bioengineering for global health, Nov. 13–15
Aug. 24, 2023—Nature Conferences has selected Vanderbilt University to host a conference Nov. 13–15, 2023, focused on developing innovative diagnostic, treatment and disease-monitoring platforms to improve human health around the world. Audrey Bowden (Vanderbilt University) The conference planning team was led by Audrey Bowden, associate professor of biomedical engineering and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow,...
Engineering doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers awarded prestigious NIH fellowships
Aug. 24, 2023—Biomedical engineering graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are recipients of highly competitive Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Awards from the National Institutes of Health and NIH Individual Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Awards. A majority of the students are in the Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and are researchers in labs...