Harpeth Hall

  • Vanderbilt University

    MEDLab’s perennial engineering class for college-bound girls earns praise

    A hands-on interactive class designed by graduate students in the Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab (MEDLab) for high school students drew enthusiastic reviews from a Nashville college-preparatory school group. Sessions included introduction to engineering and STEM, computer aided design, robotics and coding, bioinspired design, and a civil engineering module on… Read More

    Feb. 28, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Summer STEM institute, day-long VU experience readies girls for careers

    Lily Quach, left, and Marvara Jhala, center, get help with an electrocardiogram from graduate student Jaime Tierney. Eighteen girls hovered around laboratory work stations in Stevenson Center on Monday, electrodes stuck over their hearts, staring at monitors tracking their vital signs. “It says I’m alive,” quipped Lily… Read More

    Oct. 14, 2014