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A team of fourth-year Vanderbilt biomedical engineering students, Gabriella Glomp, Briana Bernicker, and Ysabel Gomez, is working on a senior design project aimed at improving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) technology. Their project, developed in collaboration with the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), focuses on making… Read More

What if an animatronic eye could rotate 360° in any direction? That’s the challenge four Vanderbilt University mechanical engineering fourth-year students, Ari Horwitz, Jackson Singer, Henry Dirksen, and Kaylee Greenberg, took on for their senior design project. Partnering with Nashville-based animatronics company Animax Designs, the team was tasked with a… Read More

Professor Kevin Galloway, Director of Making at the Wond’ry When I was finishing my first year in undergrad, I was undecided in the College of Arts and Science with an idea for an invention and no one to turn to for guidance (note: a makerspace wasn’t even a thing yet). … Read More

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Thanks to the Wond’ry’s Fiber Arts Build Lab workshops over the years, the Wond’ry dinos have become an iconic and loved creation for participants to make. These Wond’ry dinos have taken on new life through a global collaboration spearheaded by Alexandra Sargent Capps, Director of the Fiber Arts Build… Read More

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When we teach Design Thinking at the Wond’ry, participants are often surprised to learn that the first phase of the process is empathy. We can see the puzzled looks: Why not start with ideation or problem definition? That confusion turns into genuine perplexity when we explain that empathy, though it… Read More

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