Biomedical Engineering

Associate Dean Cynthia Paschal was recognized by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos for her achievements in teaching both inside and outside the classroom at Vanderbilt’s Spring Faculty Assembly March 31. Cynthia Paschal Paschal received the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, which includes a cash prize and an… Read More

Duco Jansen E. Duco Jansen will receive the Caroline and William Mark Memorial Award in April at the 35th annual conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. Jansen, associate dean for graduate studies in the School of Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering… Read More

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a Society for Biomaterials 2015 Young Investigator Award for his achievements in the field of biomaterials research within 10 years of receiving his doctorate. The award will be presented at the Society’s 2015 annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C., April 15-18. Read More

The ring that an evaporating drop of coffee leaves on the counter might be the solution to saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Ray Mernaugh, left, Rick Haselton and David Wright (Susan Urmy / Vanderbilt) Research accelerating at Vanderbilt offers new hope in diagnostics for malaria and other diseases. The… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering took a four-spot leap in the annual U.S. News and World Report undergraduate school rankings, grabbing No. 31 in a five-way tie – its best position ever. Vanderbilt University overall came in at No. 16 after maintaining its No. 17 spot for five years,… Read More

  Tamara Brown (Courtesy: Praxair, Inc.) Vanderbilt engineering alumna Tamara Brown, BE’93, has been named one of 50 of Fortune Magazine’s Heroes of the Fortune 500. Brown, who completed a double major in biomedical engineering and chemical engineering at Vanderbilt,… Read More

Will Grissom, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded the first External Research Award of 2014 from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation for his project titled “MR Temperature Imaging Toolbox for Focused Ultrasound Neurosurgery.” The foundation’s External Awards… Read More

  (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Significant progress toward creating “homo minutus”–a benchtop human–was reported at the Society of Toxicology meeting on Mar. 26 in Phoenix. The advance–successful development and analysis of a liver human organ construct that responds to exposure to a toxic chemical much like a real liver-… Read More

School of Engineering graduate student Alex Walsh has been selected to attend the 64th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, this summer. The Lindau Meeting brings together graduate students and junior researchers with Nobel laureates in physics,… Read More

Four biomedical engineering professors have been elected into AIMBE's College of Fellows. L-R, Michael Miga, Bruce Damon, Thomas Yankeelov and Mark Does were honored recently at a campus reception. They will be inducted into the College of Fellows March 24 at AIMBE's Annual Meeting. Four biomedical engineering professors in Vanderbilt’s… Read More