2020
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Kyser Miree Scholarship supporters launch challenge to expand opportunities for engineering undergraduates
Donors aim to grow endowment to $1M with matching campaign A $1 million matching gift challenge by a donor is marking the tenth anniversary of the Kyser Miree Scholarship for undergraduate students in the School of Engineering. Kyser Miree This scholarship was established in 2010 to recognize the life and leadership of… Read MoreSep. 8, 2020
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Grissom awarded $1.4 million NIH grant to develop smaller, quieter MRI system
Vanderbilt engineers have received a $1.4 million NIH grant to work toward a compact, silent, less expensive and potentially portable MRI device. The team, led by William Grissom, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will develop new hardware, including low-field radio frequency transmission coils and amplifiers, and software that will together… Read MoreSep. 1, 2020
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Vanderbilt engineer develops tiny tweezers to trap nanoscale molecules as small as proteins
An assistant professor of electrical engineering has developed the first-ever opto-thermo-electrohydrodynamic tweezers, optical nanotweezers that can trap and manipulate objects as small as proteins and viruses. The technique, developed by Justus Ndukaife and two graduate students in his group, gives researchers a powerful new tool for the study and perhaps… Read MoreAug. 31, 2020
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Reinhart-King receives 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Research
Cynthia Reinhart-King is one of five Vanderbilt professors who received a Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Fall Faculty Assembly Aug. 27, 2020. This award recognizes faculty excellence in works published or presented in the last three calendar years. Honorees each receive a cash prize $2,000 and an engraved pewter… Read MoreAug. 28, 2020
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Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold to deliver the Hall Engineering Lecture Sept. 15
Nobel Prize-winning chemical engineer Frances Arnold will deliver the Vanderbilt School of Engineering’s fall John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. CT. Her lecture, “Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life,” is free and open to the public. It will be live streamed and… Read MoreAug. 26, 2020
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School of Engineering announces two faculty appointments, EECS chair
The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of two new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff and the appointment of a chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Tyler Derr joins the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor and… Read MoreAug. 25, 2020
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Online convocation opens unusual academic year
Dean Philippe Fauchet on Sunday told new first-year and transfer students that, as engineers, they are well-suited to handle the challenges and constraints of a college semester unfolding during a global pandemic. Dean Fauchet reviewed campus protocols during Sunday’s convocation webinar. Following the new rules—maintaining six feet of physical distance,… Read MoreAug. 24, 2020
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$8.8 million grant to overhaul evolution of complex software systems
All software is not created equal. At one end are apps on a smartphone and consumer-facing programs for which periodic updates to fix bugs and security issues are routine, like replacing an air conditioning filter or getting an annual flu shot. At the other end are large, complex software systems… Read MoreAug. 20, 2020
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Engineers develop better graphene sieve that could advance clean water efforts
Developing atomically thin graphene membranes used to separate salt from water is extraordinarily complex and the effort grows more crucial as population growth, industrialization and climate change strain freshwater resources. Vanderbilt engineers have designed a simple defect-sealing technique to correct variations in pore size in graphene membranes. Vanderbilt engineering researchers… Read MoreAug. 14, 2020
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Does named Fellow of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Mark Does, professor of biomedical engineering has been selected as a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. His research program focuses on developing and applying MRI methods to quantitatively characterize various properties and/or compositions of tissue. It includes developing models of nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation and… Read MoreAug. 11, 2020