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Audrey Bowden receives NIH funding to develop point-of-care detection of jaundice in newborns

Oct. 13, 2022—Audrey Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering, has won a grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop a novel noninvasive smartphone-integrated device to provide accurate, point-of-care detection of jaundice in newborns of all skin tones. Audrey Bowden Newborns have immature...

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Professor Audrey Bowden elected to SPIE Board of Directors

Mar. 1, 2022—Audrey K. Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering, has been elected to the SPIE Board of Directors. She will serve a three-year term. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is operated through an elected Board of Directors who establish various standing and ad hoc committees...

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Engineering professor Audrey Bowden is recipient of Lewis Latimer Fellowship for Black innovators

Feb. 23, 2022—Audrey K. Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering, has received a 2022 Lewis Latimer Fellowship. The exclusive program offers only six fellowships per class and fellows are selected through a rigorous nomination process. The fellowship program is designed to provide special access and mentorship to...

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Headband device suitable for use at home with young ADHD patients

Nov. 16, 2021—A Vanderbilt biomedical engineering professor has developed a prototype headband to measure brain activity that could have widespread application in studying and ultimately treating ADHD and other neurological disorders. The device is lightweight, portable, and inexpensive to construct. Prototype components cost less than $250, compared to costs exceeding $10,000 for commercial systems. Audrey Bowden, associate...

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Audrey Bowden is 2021 Fellow of The Optical Society

Oct. 8, 2020—Audrey Ellerbee Bowden has been elected as a 2021 Fellow Member of The Optical Society for outstanding achievements in the development of optical devices, image processing algorithms and systems for biomedicine. Bowden, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has developed several new system designs that advance optical coherence tomography, an imaging technique that provides high-resolution imaging...

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BME Professor Audrey Bowden is faculty head of Zeppos College

Aug. 10, 2020—One of the special parts of student life at Vanderbilt is the university’s uniquely personal and collaborative residential college experience. Undergraduate houses and colleges are led by faculty who live with their families in community with students. Our faculty heads of house and their teams are excited to learn more about their new student residents!...

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Audrey Bowden is inaugural faculty head of Nicholas S. Zeppos College

Apr. 13, 2020—Audrey Bowden will be the inaugural faculty head of the Nicholas S. Zeppos College, set to open this August to sophomores, juniors and seniors. On April 13, 2020, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Residential Faculty Vanessa Beasley announced the appointment, which begins fall semester. “We look forward to the day when Vanderbilt’s residential colleges—so firmly...

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Three biomedical engineering professors elected into AIMBE’s College of Fellows

Apr. 2, 2020—Biomedical engineering professors Audrey Bowden, Victoria Morgan and Matthew Walker III have been elected into the 2020 class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Recipients of this honor, considered one of the highest in the biomedical engineering discipline, are chosen for exceptional leadership and achievements in medical and...

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