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The Nashville mayor’s office has joined with Vanderbilt University to launch a new initiative, the Nashville Innovation Alliance, designed to bring together public, private, civic and education institutions to collaborate on improving the region’s ecosystem for innovation and research.  Established by Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier, the… Read More

Jacob Schorr testing the prototype at Fort Campbell This past fall , Vanderbilt students tackled a project to assist combat engineers with safely defusing landmines and other dangerous obstacles, a position for a Soldier that has a survivability rate of less than 10% when in a conflict scenario. The team,… Read More

Recent Vanderbilt alumnus Nisala Kalupahana has many reasons to celebrate this year. Not only did he graduate in May, but his entrepreneurial journey with his venture, baseline, has led to his current role at Neuralink, a pioneering healthcare technology company. At Neuralink, Nisala… Read More

Inviting Applications starting August 8, 2024 The space economy is taking off, and the Space-Edge Accelerator is gearing up to propel innovators and businesses into new realms of opportunity. Powered by industry and academic leaders, Space-Edge is designed to open up new markets enabled by a global space economy that… Read More

BY LENA ANTHONY, BS’03 PHOTOS BY VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHERS UNLESS OTHERWISE LABELED When Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the $1 million gift that founded Vanderbilt University in 1873, he had never visited the Tennessee city that would carry on his legacy. But he did know one of its residents: Holland McTyiere,… Read More

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The Wond’ry recently hosted its first Faculty BioMedical Ideator cohort. The program curriculum was based around the Sullivan Family Ideator Program, which helps aspiring university-affiliated innovators (students, staff, faculty, and alumni) evaluate and develop their ideas by teaching an evidence-based approach to idea evaluation and offering expert mentorship and… Read More

Within the intellectual powerhouse that is Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center thrives a group of doctors, engineers, computer scientists and others who also are visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs. (iStock image) Share: Share on FacebookFacebook Share on XX Share on LinkedInLinkedIn Share via… Read More

Vanderbilt University will help expand access to clean energy in Brownsville, Tennessee, while further offsetting the institution’s carbon footprint—thanks to the second of three solar farms being developed through the university’s multiyear collaboration with Clearloop, a subsidiary of Silicon Ranch, an alumni-founded solar company based in Nashville. Vanderbilt’s latest investment… Read More