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    Grapneler Project: Transforming Combat Engineering with Innovation and Dedication

    Jacob Schorr testing the prototype at Fort Campbell This past fall , Vanderbilt students tackled a project to assist combat engineers with safely defusing landmines and other dangerous obstacles, a position for a Soldier that has a survivability rate of less than 10% when in a conflict scenario. The team,… Read More

    Jun. 7, 2024

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    Nisala Kalupahana’s Journey with Baseline: From the Wond’ry to Cutting-Edge Healthcare Innovation

    Recent Vanderbilt alumnus Nisala Kalupahana has many reasons to celebrate this year. Not only did he graduate in May, but his entrepreneurial journey with his venture, baseline, has led to his current role at Neuralink, a pioneering healthcare technology company. At Neuralink, Nisala… Read More

    Jun. 7, 2024

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    Commodore City: Vanderbilt and Nashville continue their collegial relationship into the next 150 years

    BY LENA ANTHONY, BS’03 PHOTOS BY VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHERS UNLESS OTHERWISE LABELED When Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the $1 million gift that founded Vanderbilt University in 1873, he had never visited the Tennessee city that would carry on his legacy. But he did know one of its residents: Holland McTyiere,… Read More

    May. 17, 2024

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    Aiding Physical Therapy: Vanderbilt Students Design Tool for Patients with Drop Foot

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    May. 6, 2024

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    Innovating for Health: Vanderbilt’s Wond’ry Launches First Faculty BioMedical Ideator Cohort to Foster Medical Entrepreneurship

    The Wond’ry recently hosted its first Faculty BioMedical Ideator cohort. The program curriculum was based around the Sullivan Family Ideator Program, which helps aspiring university-affiliated innovators (students, staff, faculty, and alumni) evaluate and develop their ideas by teaching an evidence-based approach to idea evaluation and offering expert mentorship and… Read More

    May. 6, 2024

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    Vanderbilt’s Innovation Ambassadors help their colleagues change the world

    Within the intellectual powerhouse that is Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center thrives a group of doctors, engineers, computer scientists and others who also are visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs. (iStock image) Share: Share on FacebookFacebook Share on XX Share on LinkedInLinkedIn Share via… Read More

    Apr. 26, 2024

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    Vanderbilt continues carbon neutral collaboration with Clearloop, supporting rural West Tennessee solar farm

    Vanderbilt University will help expand access to clean energy in Brownsville, Tennessee, while further offsetting the institution’s carbon footprint—thanks to the second of three solar farms being developed through the university’s multiyear collaboration with Clearloop, a subsidiary of Silicon Ranch, an alumni-founded solar company based in Nashville. Vanderbilt’s latest investment… Read More

    Apr. 22, 2024

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    WATCH: The Wond’ry builds a climate-positive future with Climate Innovation Accelerator

    Led by the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s center for innovation, the Climate Innovation Accelerator is a first-of-its-kind Nashville initiative that engages an inclusive network of local universities, minority-owned/led small businesses, and nonprofits to advance the city’s leadership initiatives toward a climate-positive future. The second annual cohort of 75 participants concluded their… Read More

    Apr. 19, 2024

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    Discovery Vanderbilt Sends Research Soaring

    On October 17, 2022, Vanderbilt University launched “Discovery Vanderbilt” to embolden faculty, students and staff to pursue innovative ideas through disciplined, rigorous inquiry. Led by Provost Cybele Raver, the university committed $80 million in the effort—and invested $50 million in the first year alone. “Our faculty members love to take… Read More

    Apr. 15, 2024

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    Vanderbilt-Led NSF Regional I-Corps Program Takes on South by Southwest (SXSW)

    The SXSW Ideator Regional I-Corps Program, founded on the Sullivan Family Ideator Program, took a diverse group of participants from the Vanderbilt community-students, faculty, staff, and alumni-and collaborators from our broader Mid-South I-Corps Hub Ecosystem, including the University of Virginia,… Read More

    Apr. 9, 2024