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Vanderbilt symposium brings together national experts to explore making health care more sustainable for the future
Aug. 18, 2023—From rising labor and energy costs to an aging population whose demand for medical services is expected to surge in the coming years, health care leaders agree that the system must prepare for a set of unprecedented challenges. “More hospitals in the United States have closed over the last year than in any year in...
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Computer science professor’s internal seeding grant leads to National Science Foundation recognition
Aug. 18, 2023—Vanderbilt University’s dedication to encouraging unique and groundbreaking research through internal grants has helped David Hyde, assistant professor of computer science, receive funding from the National Science Foundation. His research has progressed thanks to a Seeding Success Grant, an internal funding award managed by Research Development and Support in the Office of the Vice Provost...
Biomedical engineering professor helps draw a roadmap for academia to achieve more diversified hiring
Aug. 17, 2023—A team of biomedical researchers from 16 top engineering programs in the nation, which includes Audrey Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical engineering, has developed a set of processes that helps eliminate traditional barriers to historically excluded groups pursuing academic careers in biomedical engineering. To help diversify faculty...
Novel research could provide better analysis of EVPs’ roles in diseases, cancer
Aug. 14, 2023—Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is leading innovative research that more effectively traps nanosized extracellular vesicles and particles to analyze their roles in cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. The research by Ndukaife and his collaborators was recently published in Nano Letters Scientific journal. The research was done in collaboration with the lab...
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VISE team works to develop 3D navigation system to better treat kidney stones
Aug. 9, 2023—A Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering team working to create a navigational system to decrease stone fragments left behind after surgery includes Nicholas Kavoussi, MD, left, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ipek Oguz, PhD, and Daiwei Lu, computer science Ph.D. student. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Jill Clendening A multidisciplinary team at the Vanderbilt...
NSF grant supports alliance’s effort to boost AI-imaging in Middle Tennessee
Aug. 8, 2023—Vanderbilt researchers are part of an alliance supported by the National Science Foundation that seeks to build on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging in Middle Tennessee. Called the Mid-TN AI for Interdisciplinary Imaging Interpretation Alliance (AI4A), it is comprised of the School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Fisk University, Tennessee...
Engineering professor and graduate student receive American Institute of Chemical Engineers awards
Aug. 8, 2023—Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a 2023 Young Investigator Award from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (NSEF) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Nicole Moehring, a graduate student in Kidambi’s Research Group, has won a Graduate Student Research Award in the Membrane Area of the AIChE’s...
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Chemical engineering graduate student selected as SEC Emerging Scholar
Aug. 7, 2023—Chemical and biomolecular engineering doctoral student Kevin Corn has been selected to take part in the 2023-2024 cohort of SEC Emerging Scholars. This fellowship program is intended to serve as a pathway and source of mentorship for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across the Southeastern Conference to prepare them for tenured faculty positions. Corn is one of...
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