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There鈥檚 nothing like a good set of tweezers. Chancellor Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor Justus Ndukaife, with his team, have developed next-generation nanotweezers that let scientists better analyze 鈥渆xtracellular vesicles鈥� in real time and in their native state鈥攏o chemical staining or fixation to alter them. A patent application for the technology has been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; the research was just published in Light: Science and Applications.

Radiation is known to destroy some breast cancer cells, but new research published in Cell Reports shows that it might also make some surrounding tissue more prone to cancerous cell growth. Vanderbilt postdoctoral fellow Kevin Corn conducted much of the study鈥檚 work with Assistant Professor Marjan Rafat. 鈥淲hen we think about radiation, we usually focus on tumor cells,鈥� Rafat said. 鈥淏ut the surrounding tissue is also responding, and that can shape what happens after treatment.鈥� By addressing processes in that surrounding tissue, they hope to reduce the chance that breast cancer will recur.

Hussam Mahmoud, director of the Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy and Climate, has been named a National Geographic Explorer for an innovative study about how to provide a better framework for preparing for wildfires. National Geographic Explorers are groundbreaking scientists, conservationists, educators and storytellers who get funding and support from the National Geographic Society to illuminate and protect the planet.

Cyberattacks on medical devices and health care systems can endanger patient lives. A project led by a team of Vanderbilt faculty鈥攖he Advance Risk Management and Operational Resilience for Hospitals system鈥攊s a vulnerability mitigation platform to help avert and thwart such threats. Its development got a $7 million boost from the federal ARPA-H program.

The United States鈥� global leadership in science and technology depends on sustained federal investment in engineering research and education. With that message, Krish Roy, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering at Vanderbilt University, joined fellow Tennessee engineering leaders on Capitol Hill to underscore the importance of funding for agencies that power innovation and workforce development.

Being able to tell whether an image is real or generated by AI may be something you鈥檙e born with: object recognition. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a stable trait that helps people meet new perceptual challenges,鈥� study author Professor Isabel Gauthier said. 鈥淲e were shocked to see how intelligence or even technology training did not help accurately judge if a face is AI.鈥� Object recognition has been linked to success in a wide range of tasks, such as X-ray analysis and cancer cell categorization.

Vanderbilt University has announced its fall 2025 recipients of the Seeding Success, Scaling Success and Rapid-Advancement MicroGrant Program awards, providing internal funding to help faculty launch new research directions, strengthen proposals and compete for major external grants. Read More

Vanderbilt University announced聽seven聽recipients of the聽Innovation Catalyst Fund awards鈥痜or the聽October聽2025 cycle.聽The awards聽offer strategic pre-seed funding to聽help faculty聽across聽a wide range聽of聽disciplines聽turn聽promising research concepts into tangible solutions that address聽fundamental societal needs.聽 Read More

He leads groundbreaking work creating robotic tools to make surgeries safer. Now, with a passion for partnership, see how Robert Webster is carving a path for others to take their life-changing innovations and turn them into reality. Read More

Robert J. Webster, the Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt, has been elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors as well as elevated to IEEE Fellow, a prestigious title awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to members who have made significant contributions to the fields of engineering, science, and technology.

What does the future of AI and robotics look like in our daily lives and as a career field? In a special episode of Quantum Potential, Provost C. Cybele Raver talks with Matthew Johnson-Roberson, the inaugural dean of the College of Connected Computing, about the accelerating evolution of AI and robotics.

Soldiers spend a lot of time wearing body armor. The added weight takes a toll on their shoulders and back, contributing to one of the most common injuries reported by U.S. Army soldiers: back overuse. Vanderbilt researchers have developed a two-pound wearable device that redistributes 90 percent of that weight to the wearer鈥檚 hips while standing, walking and sitting鈥攁nd lets soldiers retain their full agility and freedom of movement. Associate Professor Karl Zelik, senior research engineer Chad Ice and Ph.D. graduate Paul Slaughter published the study.

While using an ice pack to ease pain is nothing new, a Vanderbilt team has taken the concept high-tech. Associate Professor Leon Bellan leads the group that has developed a cold-triggered 鈥渄epot鈥濃�攁n implantable device that releases medication from within the body on demand. This shows promise on two fronts: Patients can release the medication simply by putting an ice pack over the implant, and locally effective NSAID drugs can be used instead of more addictive opioids.

A new PBS Kids series created to help children better understand the impact of weather and climate took instructional cues from Jeremi London, associate provost for academic opportunity and associate professor of mechanical engineering, who played a role in the show鈥檚 development.

Vanderbilt supports new faculty every step of the way鈥攂y connecting them with senior faculty who serve as mentors, observe their classes and provide valuable feedback, and proofread their grant proposals to make them stronger. These professors who joined Vanderbilt in the past few years shed light on how the university has helped them succeed.聽 Read More

Gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, plagues millions of people. Vanderbilt researchers led by Assistant Professor Xiaoguang Dong have developed a soft robotic valve that can seal off the lower esophagus from the stomach, keeping gastric acid where it belongs. Then when the patient eats or drinks, the valve, which is implanted in concert with a stent, can be opened with a wearable external magnet. 鈥淭his platform holds promise not only for treating GERD, but also for managing other sphincter-related disorders,鈥� said co-author and Assistant Professor Yuxiao Zhou.

Much of the human brain is still a mystery, largely because it鈥檚 pretty difficult to see what鈥檚 going on in there. Assistant Professor Daniel Gonzales and the team in his lab are working to make that easier. They鈥檙e using experimental platforms that record brain activity with unprecedented precision on all levels. It works on everything from whole-brain networks to individual synapses鈥攖iny gaps between brain cells that are one-tenth the width of a human hair. 鈥淲e can 鈥� really detail pictures of brain activity during learning,鈥� Gonzales said. 鈥淎nd then we can apply that to study diseases that degrade learning.鈥�

Road closures are a pain鈥攁nd sometimes they鈥檙e not even supposed to be happening. A project by senior research scientist Ayan Mukhopadhyay is working to develop a system鈥擲ENTRY鈥攖hat uses AI to help city inspectors find and address unauthorized road closures in Nashville. 鈥淭he system has the potential to save millions in unpaid permit fees, reduce external inspection costs and minimize disruptions for residents, commuters and local businesses,鈥� Mukhopadhyay said. His research is supported by a $697,000 grant that's part of NSF's CIVIC Innovation Challenge.

大象传媒app SPARK: Get to know Shekhar Bhansali, new head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his vision for AI engineering education. Read More

Josh Caldwell, professor of mechanical engineering and Director of the Interdisciplinary Materials Science graduate program at Vanderbilt University, and Alex Paarmann of the Fritz Haber Institute, led an international collaborative research project that successfully demonstrated the confinement of terahertz light to nanoscale dimensions using a new type of layered material. This could lead to improvements in opto-electronic devices such as infrared emitters used in remote controls and night vision and terahertz optics desired for physical security and environmental sensing.