2021

Nearly 50 percent of first-year students this year are women. Read More

For individuals with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy, open brain surgery is the current standard of care to reduce seizures, and four of every five patients remain seizure-free after the procedure. But perceived risks of a craniotomy make many patients and referring physicians hesitant. More than 90 percent of U.S. patients… Read More

Applying deep learning, Vanderbilt and VUMC researchers have created a technique that corrects image distortions and provides more accurate information for researchers, radiologists, and neuroscientists to better interpret brain scans. “To quantify anything in the brain is highly important,” said Bennett Landman, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and… Read More

A massive collaboration to show how sensors and data streams can detect biological threats and predict future disease outbreaks has advanced with $5 million in federal funding over the next two years. The NSF Convergence Accelerator approved Computing the Biome for Phase 2 funding in September 2021. Vanderbilt School… Read More

A team led by Vanderbilt engineers has achieved the ability to transmit two different types of optical signals across a single chip at the same time. The breakthrough heralds a potential dramatic increase in the volume of data a silicon chip can transmit over any period of time. With this… Read More

Nearly 70 years ago, the unexpected result of a numerical simulation sparked a chaos theory revolution in modern science and launched the study of nonlinear systems. In 1953, Fermi, Pasta, Ulam, and Tsingou discovered an apparent paradox when investigating thermalization of mechanical vibration along a single atomic chain. Now, a… Read More

Before urban commuters take to the skies, a multi-institution team with Vanderbilt engineers and funded by NASA will develop and test the foundations of safety management for commercial, self-piloted air taxis. Such aircraft must communicate with each other. They must respond to hazards, from weather to equipment malfunction to “uncooperative”… Read More

A 12,000-mile superhighway snakes through the United States—underused, underappreciated, and underfunded. Each year, it carries cargo to and from many of the country’s oceangoing ports as well as to and from 38 states. The inland waterway system is an unsung hero of the nation’s freight transportation system, moving $135 billion… Read More

Vanderbilt University engineering and education faculty are part of a new $20 million, NSF-funded research institute to create artificial intelligence tools to radically improve education, re-imagining learning inside and outside of the classroom. The NSF AI Institute for Engaged Learning is one of 11 new AI institutes announced in July… Read More

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING and BIOPHOTONICS Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yuankai “Kenny” Tao is the first School of Engineering faculty member to be supported by an endowment gift from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Kenny Tao This is the eighth major SPIE gift to universities and institutes as… Read More