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Radx 2017 Innovation Challenge
Feb. 16, 2017—The VU Department of Radiology kicked off its RadXInnovation Challenge, co-sponsored by the Wond’ry and CTTC, on February 16th at 4pm at the Wond’ry. RadX is a healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship incubator within the Dept. of Radiology and this inaugural innovation challenge has teams working from February to June to create a commercially viable solution to...
VandyHacks Hacker Night – Let’s Code This
Feb. 16, 2017—This event took place on February 16th from 5:30pm until 11pm on the 3rd floor of the Wond’ry and was hosted by VandyHacks and Home Depot. This 5-hour coding event was an evening of creativity and hacking, where Vandy students could turn ideas into reality. Overall, 54 students attended, and 7 projects were submitted. In...
School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt
Feb. 14, 2017—On February 2nd, the Wond’ry hosted a group of high school juniors from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt for a morning of fun and fabrication. The students learned how to make plastic forms using a vacuum former and then built frames for their creations by drilling pocket holes into pieces of lumber....
Innovating at the Wond’ry
Feb. 13, 2017—Described as “the epicenter for innovation and entrepreneurship at Vanderbilt University,” the Wond’ry is a place where students can turn their ideas into action. With makerspaces, shared work environments, interactive art exhibits, and curricular programming, students will be able to use the Wond’ry to gain real-world experience collaborating on interdisciplinary projects. It’s a place where...
The Student/Faculty Relantionship
Feb. 13, 2017—Hear from Vanderbilt students about what Vanderbilt faculty are really like and how small classes with research faculty and immersive experiences lead to future-changing opportunities.
Developing solutions
Feb. 10, 2017—Vanderbilt University students in the New Product Design and Development course recently collaborated with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to develop real-world solutions for areas of need. The course, taught by David Owens, Ph.D., M.S., professor for the Practice of Management and Innovation, is conducted inside the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s new innovation makerspace in...
Vanderbilt’s Wond’ry receives grant to bolster entrepreneur education program
Feb. 9, 2017—“The success of the PreFlight, and now the PostFlight, programs at the Wond’ry have demonstrated that there’s a real appetite on campus—and in the community—to learn the fundamentals of converting an idea into a viable for-profit or social venture,” said Robert Grajewski, Evans Family Executive Director of the Wond’ry. “We are pleased that VentureWell has...
Places and Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit Workshops
Feb. 9, 2017—• Illustrations in Inkscape o This event took place on February 7th from 11am until 12pm and demonstrated how to make illustrations in Inkscape, a vector graphics editor. • Interactive Data Using KK/ggvis o This event took place on February 8th from 11am until 12pm and taught how to test data using KK/ggvis with instruction...
Up close with Provost Susan Wente
Feb. 9, 2017—In the fall of 1980, Susan Wente entered college with a plan. The forensic and drama talent she’d displayed as a high school student in Emmetsburg, Iowa, had earned her a college scholarship, but Wente had settled on an eminently practical course of study—dental hygiene.Although her small high school hadn’t offered advanced placement classes, Wente had...
Cool food with a mission: Student runs first-ever campus kosher food truck
Feb. 9, 2017—“There’s no place in Tennessee where you can go and buy a kosher meat sandwich or entrée. So this mobile restaurant is a really big step forward for everybody,” said Rabbi Shlomo Rothstein, director of Vanderbilt’s Rohr Chabad House.Vanderbilt student Zack Freeling, his father Ken Freeling and Rothstein came up with the innovative idea and...