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Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, a journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society, has named Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of Graduate Recruiting in Biomedical Engineering Craig Duvall to its third annual list of Young Innovators of Cellular… Read More

Grainy security camera footage of an empty waiting room captures the chilling devastation of the May 22, 2011, EF-5 tornado that struck St. John’s Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. It is eerily still for nearly a minute, the only movement an unseen current rustling a magazine’s pages. At 57 seconds,… Read More

Georgia Tech colleague: “You are the reason the field exists.” A progenitor of the Internet of Things celebrated his 70th birthday with a surprise, day-long symposium and party that brought together some of the world’s most renowned researchers in cyber-physical systems. Colleagues greeted Janos Sztipanovits, the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished… Read More

David Merryman is one of six engineering professors who earned R01 grants for their research. (Vanderbilt University) Five biomedical engineering professors and an electrical engineering and computer science professor are celebrating news about newly approved or resubmitted Research Project Grants (R01) from the Nationals Institutes of Health. Read More

Photo courtesy of John Partipilo, The Tennessean Engineering science major Damian Jones is a Golden State Warrior after Thursday night’s draft, selected No. 30 in the first round. The jovial, 7-foot-tall Jones was the only engineer among the SEC’s top-ranked players this year… Read More

  From left, Hernan Gonzalez, Jon Heiselman and Patrick Anderson. Not pictured, Megan Poorman. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Engineering graduate students from across several disciplines will experience intensive training and mentoring with the potential to help them create devices, then get those out of the lab… Read More

William Grissom, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, helped develop open-source software and hardware instructions for focused ultrasound machines. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Focused ultrasound is FDA-approved to treat three medical conditions and under investigation to treat dozens more. Just this week, popular TV journalist and surgeon Dr. Sanjay… Read More

An engineering alumnus who gained international recognition for his leadership style, approach to crisis management and philanthropy is the subject of a new, hour-long Kentucky Educational Television documentary titled “John Hall: The Kentucky Commodore.” His name is well known at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering for the… Read More

Computational mechanics, materials and risk and reliability loom large on session agenda Douglas Adams, Daniel F. Flowers Professor and Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, on a panel at the co-located Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and the Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Engineers… Read More

Jordan French (center, in vest) and the BeeHex team at this year's SXSW. (Photos courtesy of BeeHex.) The idea of using 3D printing to make pizzas began as an experiment in getting an American favorite into the hands of hungry NASA astronauts. Thanks to a chance connection,… Read More