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App will help students self-monitor and improve classroom behavior
Mar. 30, 2017—K–12 schools in districts in Nashville, Tennessee, and Iowa City, Iowa, will soon benefit from an iPad app designed by Vanderbilt professors to help students modify their own problem behavior. A self-monitoring intervention, MoBeGo (Monitoring Behavior on the Go) will provide critical support to teachers working with students who have challenging behaviors
Inaugural DIVE Boot Camp immerses participants in human-centered design
Mar. 28, 2017—More than 40 students, staff and faculty gathered at the Wond’ry March 25 to learn about human-centered design and put it into practice through a series of exercises. The half-day event was the inaugural DIVE Boot Camp, one of several opportunities for members of the Vanderbilt community to participate in Design as an Immersive Vanderbilt...
DoorDash Will Start Delivering Food Via Robots In California This Thursday
Mar. 24, 2017—This Thursday, the on-demand delivery company DoorDash’s human couriers will begin working alongside a new type of coworker: robots. DoorDash is putting a small fleet of six-wheeled delivery robots into action for the first time in Redwood City, California, following weeks of tests. The robots, built by a company called Starship Technologies, are about the...
Teaching Touchstones: New Product Design and Development
Mar. 17, 2017—For the past 15 years, David Owens, professor of the practice of management and innovation at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, has taught a course on New Product Design and Development, designed primarily for MBA candidates and engineering undergraduates—but available to any students with an interest in the subject.
Media Advisory: Teens build model bridges–only to destroy them
Mar. 13, 2017—About 20 students from area high schools build bridges in advance and then add weight to them until the bridges collapse – or the students concede. The exercise teaches them about structural efficiency (mass of the bridge vs. load supported) and moves them toward higher education and careers in civil engineering. The event is held...
One-of-a-kind InDigital conference shares scholarship on how indigenous people use digital media
Mar. 13, 2017—“One of the amazing things about the digital revolution is the ways indigenous people have adopted new technologies to protect and defend their culture,” said Ted Fischer, director of the Center for Latin American Studies. “From the Kayapó in the Amazon to the Maya of Chiapas, indigenous peoples have used video, audio and the Internet to...
Three Vanderbilt student teams advance to next round of ‘Nobel Prize for students’
Feb. 23, 2017—The Hult@Vanderbilt competition, specifically for Vanderbilt students, took place on Nov. 7 at the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s innovation center. “The Wond’ry was so excited to host the Hult competition at Vanderbilt,” said Robert Grajweski, Evans Family Executive Director at the Wond’ry. “We were so impassioned by the energy and the excitement by the members that were running...
Student Project Team Develops Mobile App for Legal Aid
Feb. 22, 2017—The introduction of project-based University Courses at The Wond’ry will completely revolutionize the way we learn at Vanderbilt, as experiential learning is simply the best model for job training. Technology projects are inherently interdisciplinary, requiring clear communication and organized initiative. Students are granted the opportunity to transfer and fuse a diverse set of knowledge to...
David Owens second guest on ‘The Zeppos Report’
Feb. 21, 2017—A leading thinker on innovation and creativity who was the first faculty member to teach at theWond’ry sits down for a wide-ranging discussion with Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos on the second episode of The Zeppos Report podcast. The Zeppos Report features Vanderbilt faculty, students, staff and alumni as well as other engaging individuals...
New DIVE website launched
Feb. 21, 2017—DIVE is a new, innovative program with both curricular and co-curricular components that expands access to design thinking methodologies to students, faculty and staff. DIVE participants will learn human-centered design skills in order to solve complex, real-world problems, working in multidisciplinary teams on immersive, mentored projects. DIVE will launch in fall 2017.