2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    First VU science communicator named AAAS fellow

      David Salisbury (Vanderbilt University) David F. Salisbury, senior research writer in Vanderbilt’s Office of News and Communications, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his achievements in communicating and interpreting science to the public. Salisbury is Vanderbilt’s… Read More

    Nov. 27, 2013

  • VUSE news roundup

    VUSE news roundup

    November 25, 2013 The Tennessean: Nissan is bullish on fantasy football website Can college football and the principles of the stock market merge to create the perfect sports fantasy game? That’s the question that budding entrepreneurs Will Schreiber and McArthur Gill sought to answer as they headed into their final… Read More

    Nov. 27, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Fun experiments fan middle schoolers’ interest in engineering

      Brandon Dimmig steadies a fan cart for a cluster of eager fifth graders. The fan cart looks like a toy and students are instantly attracted to the straight grey track and the small black cart with a movable fan. Brandon Dimmig, Vanderbilt Aerospace Club president, readies… Read More

    Nov. 22, 2013

  • Vanderbilt Aerospace Club members visit Celina K-8 School

    Vanderbilt Aerospace Club members visit Celina K-8 School

    //   // Watch member members of the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club teach Newton’s laws of motion using frictionless fan carts and soda bottle rockets to fifth, seventh and eighth grade students in science classes at Celina (Tenn.) K-8 School in Clay County, about 100 miles northeast of Nashville. Read More

    Nov. 22, 2013

  • Alumni engineering solutions for developing world

    Alumni engineering solutions for developing world

    Krista Donaldson, BE’95 For CEO and Vanderbilt mechanical engineering graduate Krista Donaldson, BE’95, revolutionary engineering is about changing the world, one life at a time. Her San Francisco engineering and design firm is dedicated to solving problems around the world, not for millions of dollars, but hundreds. Read More

    Nov. 21, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Burgeoning Vanderbilt research institute celebrates regional impact, global reach

    In 15 years ISIS has had two growth spurts. During a three-year period between 2000 and 2003 the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt reached national recognition as a partner in projects won by academic and industry leaders. In 2010, with awards of multiple large, long-term projects “we became… Read More

    Nov. 15, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Student to play for Colombian women’s soccer team at Bolivarian Games in Peru

    Lina Granados Sophomore Lina Granados has been invited by the Colombian Soccer Federation to be part of the U-20 Colombian Women’s National Team that will represent Colombia during the 2013 Bolivarian Games held in Peru this month. Granados, a computer science major from Ashburn, Va., and a… Read More

    Nov. 14, 2013

  • Studying abroad better prepares students for an international workforce

    Studying abroad better prepares students for an international workforce

    Vanderbilt undergraduate engineering students have traveled throughout Asia to learn about nanotechnology, renewable energy and environmental technologies. Others have learned about tissue engineering and medical implant device design in Australia or participated in engineering programs in South Africa. Welker at Milford Sound, New Zealand Biomedical and chemical engineering senior Cara… Read More

    Nov. 13, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Justice and Identity in a Bioengineered Society

    Watch “Justice and Identity in a Bioengineered Society,” by Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History. One of the earliest biomedical engineering programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is celebrating its 45th anniversary as a program and its 25th anniversary as a department in the School of… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology

    Watch video of the Donna S. and John R. Hall Engineering Lecture, delivered by synthetic biology pioneer James J. Collins. Collins is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and a renowned biomedical engineering professor at Boston University. One of the earliest biomedical engineering programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2013