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COVID-19, Businesses, and the Global Economy: Cashflow Challenges During Crisis
Apr. 6, 2020—In this live, weekly online report, Lodestone Advisory Group CEO and Wond’ry Mentor Amr El-Husseini is joined by guests from all over the globe to discuss how COVID-19 is affecting how people do business. Watch on YouTube
Introduction to Art Therapy with Meg Bearman
Apr. 2, 2020—Meg Bearman of Meg Bearman Counseling gives an introduction to the world of Art Therapy, where licensed therapists use art to help treat mental health. Watch On YouTube
VU engineers and VUMC doctors team up for open-source ventilator design
Mar. 30, 2020—As COVID-19 continues to push unprecedented challenges on medical communities, one of the most pressing threats for hospital staff across the country is a dwindling supply of ventilators. Now, an interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty is taking on the challenge by way of a fabricated, open-source ventilator design. Led...
Vanderbilt engineers design breathing system for VUMC if ventilators run out
Mar. 30, 2020—NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Some Vanderbilt University engineers are trying to get ahead of a problem that could happen if the COVID-19 pandemic gets worse in Nashville. Since Saturday Kevin Galloway has been putting together a way to pump an “ambu” bag without any hands. “Trying to think of what do I have available in my...
HED: Rakkasans, Vanderbilt team up on innovation initiative
Mar. 4, 2020—Through an education partnership between Vanderbilt University, the Rakkasans now work together with researchers to discuss innovations for field training and operations during deployment. Army Futures Command and Vanderbilt University signed an education partnership agreement in April 2019, establishing a model that expands opportunities for collaboration between Soldiers and university-based researchers who work in the...
VU Wond’ry PreLaunch ideas target travel, autonomous tech, visual empowerment
Feb. 27, 2020—THE WOND’RY Innovation Center at Vanderbilt University runs a PreLaunch program to help potential entrepreneurs in the VU community determine whether they should pursue their venture ideas. With assistance from Wond’ry Associate Director Deanna Meador, we obtained varying amounts of information on three of the five teams that received microgrants. They were among 13 teams...
Vanderbilt students break classical music conventions
Jan. 23, 2020—Three years ago, Blair student Aislinn Bailie, class of 2019, had the startling realization that after almost two decades of a career in classical music, she had never performed a piece composed by anyone other than a white male. Determined to change this, she put together Vanderbilt’s first contemporary music concert.