2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    CPS verification expert wins Air Force young investigator research award

    Taylor T. Johnson, an assistant professor of computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, has been recognized with an early career award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He will receive a three-year grant to work on formal verification for cyber-physical systems (CPS) that is understandable and reusable. Read More

    Oct. 20, 2017

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    Collaborative efforts attract Stanford chemical engineer to Vanderbilt

    The regimen is all too familiar for those battling breast cancer and for their loved ones: tough rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. The patient goes on to live a long, cancer-free life when that regimen works. Marjan Rafat… Read More

    Oct. 20, 2017

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    Wikswo group tech licensed by UK company for organ-on-chip products

    A biotechnology company based in the United Kingdom has licensed three patents and applications from Vanderbilt University for its Organs-on-Chips products. CN Bio Innovations Ltd., a spinoff from Oxford University, secured a combination of exclusive and non-exclusive rights to microfluid technologies developed by Professor John Wikswo, Gordon A. Cain University… Read More

    Oct. 18, 2017

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    VISE team wins $1.4 million NIH grant to reboot robotic surgery system

    From the left, Associate Professor Robert Webster III, Dr. S. Duke Herrell and Harvey Branscomb Professor Michael Miga, lead a VISE team developing an image guidance interface for robotic surgery systems. (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) A Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team is developing an image guidance interface for the… Read More

    Oct. 17, 2017

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    Autism & Innovation center to help people with ASD find meaningful work

    A new Vanderbilt center that includes the dean of the School of Engineering aims to create a model pipeline to assist adults on the autism spectrum find meaningful and gainful employment while enhancing local business innovation. The Center for Autism & Innovation (VCAI) brings together academic researchers,… Read More

    Oct. 16, 2017

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    Sztipanovits co-leads international effort to build social values into the Internet of Things

    The proliferation of smart devices has jump-started another profound technological transformation and created an opportunity to better marry these cyber physical systems with societal norms to minimize social disruption. That’s the idea behind an ambitious new international, interdisciplinary project to develop and test the concept of incorporating social… Read More

    Oct. 11, 2017

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    Opening more doors for computer science majors to study around the world

    A surge in computer science majors has sparked a concerted effort to review more CS programs abroad. Paschal “Our CS program is exploding,” said Engineering Associate Dean Cynthia Paschal. “We’ve spent the better part of a year working Isabelle Crist, assistant director of operations in the Vanderbilt’s Global Education Office,… Read More

    Oct. 10, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering school recruits 11 new faculty members

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of 11 new members to its full-time teaching faculty. They are: Carlos Silvera Batista, assistant professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Joshua Caldwell, associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Kelsey Hatzell, assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Piran Kidambi, assistant… Read More

    Oct. 9, 2017

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    Top ExxonMobil exec shares global energy supply, demand projections through 2040

    One of ExxonMobil’s top global executives provided a packed house of engineering students a front-seat overview of everything from liquefied natural gas to large drivers of projected global energy demand to career advice and algae. Developing economies will move nearly 2 billion additional people into middle class status by… Read More

    Oct. 7, 2017

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    Engineering students, organizations, labs contribute to Maker Faire’s success

    The Wond’ry hosted the 2017 Nashville Mini Maker Faire, which attracted more than 4,000 visitors. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) The Nashville Mini Maker Faire, held for the first time at The Wond’ry, attracted more than 4,000 visitors and 93 exhibitors – a jump in attendance of more than 50 percent and double… Read More

    Oct. 5, 2017