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Douglas Adams and Catie Chang are among 10 Vanderbilt faculty members who received 2024 Spring Faculty Awards at the Spring Faculty Assembly April 11. Recipients were recognized for their significant impact through scholarship, research, creative expression, service, teaching or mentoring. Adams received the Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt undergraduate engineering students took the second spot in a national Jump into STEM challenge to develop holistic solutions that improve the resilience of the built environment. Francisco Diaz-Rodriguez The students—Francisco Diaz-Rodriguez, Jillian Flynn, Alex Holzke, and Ethan Rand—proposed a self-powered system to detect wildfires, especially in… Read More

Matthew Walker III, professor of the practice of biomedical engineering and associate professor of radiology and radiological sciences, died April 24, 2021, at his home. Mathew Walker III Walker, 56, designed an innovative biomedical engineering design curriculum that leveraged connections between the Vanderbilt School of Engineering, the medical school and… Read More

A senior design team reimagined 11-plus Vanderbilt-owned acres in Wedgewood-Houston as a mixed use container development. A team of civil and mechanical engineering students has a new vision for land Vanderbilt owns in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood of Nashville – apartments for graduate students, restaurants and offices made from 648 used… Read More

Students Sophia Giordano, Maggie Ford and Jong Jung each design an interactive fairy house for Cheekwood Gardens as their project in “How to Make Almost Anything.” Making things is cool. Making things that solve a problem, improve a life and make a difference is even better. Students in “How to… Read More

Inspired to make a child’s life better through engineering and design, students from Vanderbilt, occupational therapists and professional engineers worked for three days straight—with little sleep—to build inventions that would make life a little easier for a child with special physical needs. Seven teams from diverse backgrounds took part in… Read More

Nashville Mini Maker Faire this Saturday (Oct. 5, 2019) has something for all ages. (Vanderbilt/Susan Urmy) Want to learn to fold paper and make origami? See a Mars rover the Vanderbilt Robotics team built for a NASA robotic mining competition that can dig, collect, store and deposit gravel? Campus organizations… Read More

A 2019 Senior Design Project to aid in evaluating the severity of burn injuries won the Thomas G. Arnold Prize, given annually by the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Eric Yeats, CompE, joined BME majors Jacob Ayers, Hannah Kang, Dominique Szymkiewicz, Nora Ward and Thomas Yates, all BE ’19 graduates, on… Read More

Once a week since his first year at Vanderbilt, Robby Perry’s alarm clock went off at 4 a.m. so he could show up to work the 4:30 to 7 a.m. breakfast shift at the Nashville Rescue Mission. Perry, a mechanical engineering and economics double major, said his college experience was… Read More

Design Day 2019 took students and visitors to Mars, a diving depth of 300 feet and a potential green oasis above a stretch of Interstate 65. Dean Phillipe Fauchet (left) and Assistant Dean of Design Tom Withrow commend students, advisers, faculty and sponsors for two semesters of hard work. Other… Read More