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Bunker Labs, the Wond’ry help veterans become entrepreneurs
May. 25, 2017—Neil Whitney enjoyed the ideal physique – one shaped by tough Army drills and long days spent running from crisis to crisis as an intelligence officer – before a debilitating knee injury forced him off his feet and under the knife for eight surgeries. With each weigh-in, the toll on the rest of his body...
We have to create our own unique capital ecosystem’
May. 25, 2017—Three questions with InCrowd Capital’s Phil Shmerling about funding promising ideas
Innovation Boosts Nashville’s Health Care Industry
May. 23, 2017—As home to 18 publicly traded health care companies and more than 400 health-care businesses, Nashville has long felt the impact of the industry on its economy – to the tune of some $40 billion a year – and the industry’s influence has spread far beyond the hospital walls. A 2016 Brookings Institution study found...
International exhibit unites students, faculty and staff in celebrating mapping technology
May. 22, 2017—Vanderbilt’s recent hosting of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition, an international collection celebrating the use of data visualizations to make sense of large data streams in groundbreaking ways, proved to be not only intellectually enriching, but also socially unifying, according to several leaders across campus.
Grand Stair dedicated in honor of alumni Ed and Sue Clark
May. 10, 2017—The Engineering and Science Building and Innovation Pavilion are unlike any other on this campus, bringing together faculty and students from all over Vanderbilt. This spiral staircase perfectly symbolizes the connectivity that is at the heart of this trans-institutional facility. We deeply appreciate the Clarks’ support for and engagement in this vision,” Provost and Vice...
Thistle Farms turns to the Wond’ry for wrist-saving, wick-installing device
May. 9, 2017—So when the women of Thistle Farms, a nonprofit that gives jobs to survivors of trafficking and addiction, decided to release their new line using the superior wicks, it meant long days of sticking them to the bottom of the glass vessels by hand. That wasn’t going to work for orders of 35,000, like the...
Vanderbilt scientist directs new national graphene association
May. 3, 2017—Zina Jarrahi Cinker, who got her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt last year and is a visiting scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will serve as executive director of the new National Graphene Association, established to aid in the commercialization of this new “wonder material.”
Design Day features bulletproof vest that calls for backup, bridge for Hondurans in need
May. 1, 2017—The science-fair-meets-the-Consumer-Electronics-Show type of event features 70 teams of graduating seniors standing by to demonstrate their engineering answers to real-life challenges. Corporate and nonprofit sponsors propose the problems, advise the teams throughout the academic year and own the intellectual property at the end of it.
Fauchet reappointed dean of School of Engineering
Apr. 27, 2017—Philippe Fauchet has been reappointed as dean of the School of Engineering for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2017.