Digest
Connecting Vanderbilt’s Online Community
Vanderbilt recently launched VUconnect, a new online community for all alumni and students. VUconnect replaces the previous online service, Dore2Dore, and provides new and enhanced features. Alumni can use VUconnect to provide news, find old friends and classmates, network, share career advice and leads, locate VU chapters and sign up for Vanderbilt events.
School of Engineering [...]
Engineers Take Over Music Row
Engineers from the School of Engineering’s Institute for Space and Defense Electronics (ISDE) and the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) have just become the newest residents of Nashville’s famed Music Row.
The two institutes relocated their combined 130 personnel to new facilities at 1025 16th Avenue South, expanding to approximately 40,000 square feet of lab, [...]
Former Chancellor Heard Dies
Alexander Heard, who served as Vanderbilt’s fifth chancellor, and guided the university from 1963 to 1982, died July 24 after a long illness. The chancellor emeritus was 92.
Under Heard’s leadership, Vanderbilt grew and prospered, adding three schools to the seven it already contained, constructing three dozen new or enlarged buildings, conducting two highly successful fundraising [...]
Weiss Named One of Nation’s Top Young Engineers
Sharon Weiss, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been recognized by President Obama with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Promoted, Honored and New Faculty
The School of Engineering has newly promoted professors, a new professor, emeritus, and seven new faculty members this academic year.
Two faculty members have been promoted to full professor and a third has been promoted to associate professor. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, professor of biomedical engineering, and Bharat Bhuva, professor of electrical engineering, were both promoted to professor [...]
