Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering dean announces creation of Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt

    Fauchet School of Engineering Dean Philippe Fauchet has announced the establishment of The Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt. The newest research center in the school “will regroup not only the faculty members who focus on biomedical applications inside and outside engineering, but also those faculty members whose main research activities include… Read More

    Feb. 6, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineers lead 6 of 10 ‘cool inventions’ of 2014: CTTC

    A Vanderbilt engineering professor is a lead or co-inventor of six of the 10 “cool inventions” in 2014 highlighted by the university’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization in this video. The CTTC selected 10 from last year’s 200 inventions… Read More

    Jan. 16, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Professors serve on Trans-institutional Programs review council, panels

    Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (Vanderbilt University) Four engineering professors will serve on review boards of the formally launched new $50 million Trans-institutional Programs initiative outlined in the university’s Academic Strategic Plan. Doug Adams, Daniel F. Flowers Professor of Engineering and chair of the Department of Civil and… Read More

    Nov. 14, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Mahadevan-Jansen elected a director of international optics society

    Anita Mahadevan-Jansen has been elected to the Board of Directors of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Her three-year term begins Jan. 1, 2014. Mahadevan-Jansen Mahadevan-Jansen, an acknowledged leader in biomedical photonics, is the Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a professor of neurological surgery. As… Read More

    Oct. 18, 2013

  • NSF grant helps develop next generation of STEM instructors

    NSF grant helps develop next generation of STEM instructors

    A national experiment to develop a new generation of college science and engineering faculty, one equipped to excel in the classroom as well as the lab, is about to shift into high gear. The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, of which Vanderbilt University is a… Read More

    Sep. 25, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering faculty named to Vanderbilt’s strategic planning group

    Two engineering professors have been named to an executive committee charged with developing a framework of ideas that will set the course for Vanderbilt’s future. Michael Goldfarb Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Engineering in the Department of Biomedical… Read More

    Jul. 17, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Mahadevan-Jansen elected into AIMBE’s College of Fellows

    Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a 2012 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She will be inducted at the Fellow Induction and Awards Ceremony at AIMBE’s 21st annual event Feb. 20 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. Read More

    Jan. 26, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Four engineering faculty members receive endowed professorships

    Four engineering professors received newly endowed chairs in late 2011, bringing the total of named chairs in the School of Engineering to 12. The recipients are Benoit Dawant and David Kosson, both named a Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is the Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Read More

    Nov. 28, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    Biomedical engineer: Glowing parathyroid gland can reduce endocrine surgery risk

    Microscopic Parathyroid Gland The parathyroid glands – four small organs the size of grains of rice located at the back of the throat – glow with a natural fluorescence in the near infrared region of the spectrum. This unique fluorescent signature was discovered by a team of biomedical engineers and… Read More

    Jul. 1, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    New initiative to develop a system that controls prosthetic limbs naturally

    Using beams of light to allow amputees not only to control but also to feel the movement of prosthetic limbs is the ambitious goal of a new $5.6 million Department of Defense initiative. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is tapping the new and rapidly growing field of “neurophotonics” to… Read More

    Nov. 18, 2010