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Dean
Ken Galloway has won the prestigious Richard F. Shea
Distinguished Member Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma
Sciences Society (NPSS). The annual award
recognizes “outstanding
contributions through leadership and service to the NPSS and to
the fields of Nuclear and Plasma Sciences,” according to the
NPSS website.
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Young
Vanderbilt engineering faculty have netted prestigious CAREER
awards from the National Science Foundation
for their innovations. Computer Scientist Julie A. Adams won a
2007 CAREER award for her human-robot teaming project, while
mechanical engineer Deyu Li won the award for his research in
nanochannels used in drug discovery and drug-detection devices.
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Davis,
McCleskey receive Vanderbilt Distinguished Alumni Awards:
Vanderbilt Engineering alumni Doug Davis and Sam McCleskey
received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt
University School of Engineering during the Engineering
Celebration Dinner held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Buckhead on
Tuesday, May 22.
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Plan
for cancer detector wins prize for Vanderbilt researchers:
A plan to use nanotechnology to produce a new type of cancer
detector won the third-place award at the NanoNexus2007
conference held last month at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The
detector has been under development for two years by Vanderbilt
graduate student Chinmay Soman working under the supervision of
Todd Giorgio, professor of biomedical engineering.
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The 2007 School of
Engineering Award for Professionalism in Staff Service
was presented to Phil VerMuelen (left), system administrator.
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Professor
of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, George Cook received the
Edward J. White Engineering
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service,
and the School of Engineering Award for Excellence in
Teaching was presented to A.V. Anilkumar, research associate
professor of mechanical engineering.
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faculty/staff awards)
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Colin
Roper adjusts the six-legged crawling rescue robot
he and a team of fellow engineering seniors developed for the
Vanderbilt Center for Intelligent Mechatronics as their senior
design project. The team joined hundreds of Vanderbilt
engineering seniors soon to graduate, who demonstrated their
readiness to tackle real-world engineering problems by
showcasing their innovations during the annual School of
Engineering “Senior Design Day,” held April 24 in Adams Atrium,
Featheringill Hall.
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Engineering graduate students
Ash Jayagopal and Chinmay Soman won second runner up in the Nano
Idea to Product (I2P) competition for their QuaD-MAP early-stage
cancer detection invention. The competition was part of the Nano
Nexus 2007 conference, held April 2 at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. Fifteen teams from 12 colleges competed, with
Vanderbilt's team taking home a $2,000 prize.
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Mobile
pollution sensors to be developed at Vanderbilt using Microsoft
grant: Vanderbilt engineers have won an
award from Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time, online,
detailed and accurate picture of air quality in large
metropolitan areas like Nashville. he mobile air quality
monitoring system will make it possible to monitor air quality
more accurately than the current system of fixed stations
performing low-resolution sampling by including car-mounted
sensors that measure, process and report emission levels.
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The
Vanderbilt School of Engineering rose five places to 42nd
in the nation in the U.S. News and World Report graduate school
rankings released March 30. Vanderbilt tied with
Lehigh
University and
Washington University in St. Louis for No. 42.
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about Vanderbilt rankings)
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Professor Yi Cui has gotten recognition – and
funding – for his novel idea that could give YouTube a run for
its money. The Vanderbilt assistant professor of computer
science and computer engineering has won a prestigious National
Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research into
peer-to-peer networking to enable peer-to-peer multimedia
streaming over the Internet.
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Vanderbilt University researchers, in conjunction with
colleagues at several other institutions, are
working on a project that promises significant improvement in
the control of proteins for a number of uses, including the
detection of chemical and biological weapons.
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Cummings appointed principal scientist of Oak Ridge National
Laboratory division A chemical
engineering professor at Vanderbilt University will lead the
science programs of an Oak Ridge National Laboratory center that
is designing and developing next-generation nanoscale materials.
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National nuclear waste issues to be tackled by Vanderbilt-led
multi-university team: Nuclear power might be
“green power,” but only if nuclear waste can be managed
properly. Vanderbilt is leading a multi-university consortium in
a major effort to improve the nation’s efforts to deal with
nuclear waste safely and effectively.
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Software innovator Tuinenga joins Vanderbilt Space and Defense
Institute:
Electronic industry entrepreneur
Paul Tuinenga has joined Vanderbilt University as principal staff engineer and
program manager for software development for the Institute for
Space and Defense Electronics.
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The
Vanderbilt School of Engineering is leading a new Federal
Aviation Administration program to apply and
expand aging aircraft reliability techniques to helicopters.
Although the project is focused on helicopters, researchers
believe much of what is learned could be applied to other types
of aircraft. The five-year, $1.5 million project will be kicked
off in a project team meeting to be held Nov.
27-29 in Atlantic City, N.J.
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Akers, Cassetty receive
Vanderbilt School of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Awards:
William B. Akers and Fred J. Cassetty Jr. received the
Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Vanderbilt University
School of Engineering during the Engineering Celebration Dinner
held at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Thursday, Oct. 19.
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