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Vanderbilt continues in top 10 of ‘World’s Most Innovative Universities’
Nov. 5, 2018—Vanderbilt University—for the second consecutive year—has been named the 10th most innovative university in the world, according to a Reuters analysis of 100 educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries.
Wond’ry named Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center
Oct. 24, 2018—The Wond’ry was named an Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center at the annual Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers conference, held last week in Chicago. The Wond’ry opened in 2016 as Vanderbilt University’s epicenter for innovation, creative collaboration and entrepreneurship. “This award is truly an honor and a testament to the incredible amount of hard work and...
The Wond’ry’s Innovation Garage with Accenture
Oct. 11, 2018—The Innovation Garage program is a year-long immersive project where teams of students work with a faculty mentor, alongside members of the Wond’ry team and a corporate sponsor to develop innovative and disruptive solutions from ideation all the way to prototype, concluding in a summer internship. Accenture, a large technology consulting firm, was the corporate...
Watson Room opening, Hall Lecture mark two-day celebration of IBM support at Vanderbilt
Sep. 17, 2018—Vanderbilt will open the Watson Room at the Wond’ry, and IBM Vice President Robert Sutor will give the School of Engineering’s John R. and Donna S. Hall Lecture, as part of a two-day celebration of IBM support at Vanderbilt University Sept. 19–20. Vanderbilt will open the Watson Room beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, on...
VU teams take top two slots, $45K at 36|86 student pitch competition
Aug. 30, 2018—Two teams of Vanderbilt University entrepreneurs involved with the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps training program took home the top prizes at Tuesday’s 36|86: Student Edition pitch competition. Vanderbilt began offering the I-Corps program last year through the Wond’ry, its center for entrepreneurship, innovation and making. First place in the pitch competition and $25,000 in startup...
New VU Entrepreneurship Conference powered by Owen’s C4E + donors
Aug. 29, 2018—THE VANDERBILT Entrepreneurship Conference set for this autumn is being convened by the Center for Entrepreneurship (C4E) at Owen Graduate School of Management and is largely propelled by the philanthropy of two Owen alumni who earned their MBAs at Vanderbilt decades ago. The unnprecedented daylong event Friday, Nov. 9, is wide open to the public, as well...
My IBM Summer Experience at the Wond’ry
Aug. 27, 2018—WATSON HELLO: A Snapshot of my Summer Experience with IBM and the Wond’ry “Watson Hello” “Hi. I’m here to help. Feel free to ask me for flower recommendations (or delivery info).” I felt euphoric as my IBM TJbot, which is a robot made of cardboard running on IBM Watson operating systems, responded to me after...
3rd Brigade Combat Team: Rak Solid engineers design 3-D parts
Aug. 22, 2018—[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Soldiers assigned to 21st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, participated in a 3-D printing and laser etching exposition [at the Wond’ry] at Vanderbilt University, Aug. 9, with Kevin Galloway, director of making and research assistant in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Vanderbilt University. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]