2016

A leading theorist and researcher on how technology impacts learning, George Siemens thinks digitization of content and interaction has profound implications on teaching and learning and the organization of universities in general. George Siemens Siemens will deliver a lecture – The Future of Learning: Digital, Data-driven, and Distributed – April… Read More

Sophomore chemical engineering and chemistry student Marie Armbruster has received a Goldwater Scholarship. She is one of 252 Goldwater Scholars selected for the 2016-2017 academic year. The scholarship, which goes to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from the United States, covers the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up… Read More

John T. Wilson John T. Wilson, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award. The five-year, $500,000 grant – Engineering Polymeric Nanomaterials for Programming Innate Immunity – will allow Wilson to develop new synthetic materials for “encoding” immunological messages and… Read More

Lori Troxel, associate professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering, received the Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Spring Faculty Assembly. Troxel and five others were recognized during the March 31… Read More

Amanda Stubblefield (ES’97) never believed women couldn’t do any job they wanted — a value she learned from her grandmother, a real-life “Rosie the Riveter.” After double-majoring in Engineering Science and Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University, Stubblefield went to work for NASA. Her current job is… Read More

Sankaran Mahadevan (Vanderbilt University) Engineering professor Sankaran Mahadevan was named the Vanderbilt recipient of a 2016 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award, the SEC announced March 30. Mahadevan, John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering, was recognized for his outstanding record in teaching,… Read More

When operational, this device uses lasers to detect mistakes in the placement of a magnetic stripe on credit cards. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Place the magnetic stripe on a new credit card a single millimeter too high or too low, and it’s worthless. Multiply that mistake by thousands… Read More

Business magnate, famed investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett, center, joins Vanderbilt University students in making the school's hand sign. (Submitted) Her trip to meet investment genius Warren Buffett was a whirlwind, but Vanderbilt engineering science major Katherine Ferraro learned a lot from him. Her main takeaway: Pick a… Read More

From left, Nikita Thomas, Alvin Mukalel and Deanna Patelis, all biomedical engineering third-years, work on a Go Baby Go car. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) The toy car’s body looks the same as when students in Amanda Lowery’s Material Manipulations course received it, but the features inside are virtually… Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given clearance to market and sell the powered lower-limb exoskeleton created by a team of Vanderbilt engineers and commercialized by the Parker Hannifin Corporation for both clinical and personal use in the United States. Michael Goldfarb (Vanderbilt University)… Read More