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Art, science, history converge to examine racial issues in STEM
Feb. 11, 2022—Art, science, history converge to examine racial issues in STEM The intersection of science and society is the foundation of a multi-institutional collaboration of students and faculty in a virtual and physical art exhibit at Vanderbilt University titled Nested Knowledge: Disentangling History, Truth, and Race in STEM Experiences. The Nested Knowledge exhibit can be The Nested...
Ideator Program at Wond’ry receives endowment from Sullivan family
Feb. 11, 2022—Ideator, a highly rated program designed to help faculty, students and staff members from Nashville-area colleges and universities evaluate promising ideas, has been endowed by Eric Sullivan, CEO of Quantum Technology, and his wife, Teri Steele, in honor of their family. The newly named Sullivan Family Ideator Program at the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s Center for Innovation, takes...
Zeno Power: Clean Plug-And-Play Power Anywhere In The Universe
Feb. 11, 2022—Zeno Power: Clean Plug-And-Play Power Anywhere In The Universe James Conca Contributor Energy I write about nuclear, energy and the environment Something remarkable is happening in Washington D.C. With a rejuvenated spirit to embrace clean energy and fight climate change, energy innovation is finally getting the attention it deserves. Nowhere is this clearer than the strong...
Music City provides inspiration for business students
Feb. 11, 2022—Music City provides inspiration for business students Thursday, January 13, 2022 Business students meet with alumnus Doug Showalter, who shared insight about his career in the Nashville music industry. More photos from the trip. KOKOMO, Ind. – When you’ve always lived in a small town, it’s hard to imagine living and working in a large city. But when you...
Couture Technologies is on a mission
Feb. 11, 2022—A LaunchTN Portfolio Company: Couture Technologies, a software development company for the retail industry, exists to help apparel brands embrace the digital revolution and change consumer behaviors in ways that allow them to not only survive, but thrive. For this unique organization’s team members, Couture exists to provide bright minds with the opportunity to work together...
Map the System Applications are Open
Jan. 18, 2022—Applications Open Now for Spring ’22. Apply here by Jan. 31, 2022 @ 11:59pm CT. Map the System is a global systems thinking competition that prepares students to understand and help resolve complex social and environmental problems confronting our communities. Participating students work through a fast-paced 8-week systems thinking research project, after which they present their...
Coffee Equity Design Challenge – Spring 2022
Jan. 5, 2022—Vanderbilt University Coffee Equity Lab Launches the Coffee Equity Design Challenge Students and coffee professionals team up to co-create meaningful innovations for a more equitable and sustainable coffee industry for all coffee people. With many of the coffee industry’s current challenges the result of historical and contemporary injustices and inequalities interacting across time and place,...
From ideas to reality: Go inside Vandy’s ideas machine
Dec. 13, 2021—By Carol Smith – Research Director, Nashville Business Journal Dec 9, 2021, 4:32pm EST Vanderbilt University’s Innovation Center, The Wond’ry, opened in November 2016. The center provides support, including training, programming, makerspaces, microgrants and access to a network of professionals, to about 300 ideas each year. Enrollees to the program have brought in over $55 million in outside...
The Wond’ry aids Vanderbilt student in designing African language learning app to connect with native roots
Dec. 10, 2021—During his winter break in 2020, sophomore electrical engineering and mathematics double major, Wenitte Apiou, was struck with an idea that stemmed from his native African roots. In Burkina Faso, West Africa, where Apiou grew up, the national language is French. After moving from West Africa to the U.S., Apiou realized that he hadn’t had...
Alumni Innovators: Cybersecurity startup ARMS Cyber wins competitive awards from US Air Force, JPMorgan Chase and VetsinTech
Dec. 10, 2021—Vanderbilt alumni Brad Potteiger, MS’16, PhD’19, Tim Potteiger, MS’17, and Michael Bryant, MBA’12, are the co-founders of ARMS Cyber, a cybersecurity company that proactively eliminates zero-day attacks, which target software security vulnerabilities before developers have the opportunity to patch them. The company recently earned two accolades: a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the U.S. Air Force and the grand prize in a tech startup competition hosted by VetsinTech and JPMorgan Chase. The one-year Phase II STTR grant will help ARMS Cyber continue...