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Douglas Adams Accepts Invitation to Join Springer Nature U.S. Advisory Council

Mar. 21, 2023—Douglas Adams, vice dean of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering and associate provost in the Office of Research and Innovation, has been named a member of the Springer Nature U.S. Research Advisory Council. Springer Nature is an academic publishing company that includes leading publications such as the Nature portfolio journals and Scientific American. Adams will attend the USRAC’s annual meeting at Nature’s New...

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Doug Adams to lead TIPs-funded, soldier-inspired innovation hub

Jul. 14, 2020—A new innovation incubator will amplify existing collaborations among researchers and soldiers, building on Vanderbilt’s partnership agreement with Army Futures Command. The project, Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator for Discovering Research-Based Solutions, is one of six cross-disciplinary programs to be funded by Vanderbilt’s Trans-Institutional Programs (TIPs) initiative, a hallmark of the university’s Academic Strategic Plan. The university announced...

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Three VINSE Faculty Elected AAAS Fellows for 2019

Dec. 4, 2019—Eight Vanderbilt University faculty members have been named 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. “I am enormously proud of the eight faculty members who earned this inspiring accomplishment, and I’m delighted...

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The ‘shine’ in gold particles has a new use – finding defects

Jul. 10, 2018—That glint of gold has always captured our eyes, but now the precious metal has a new use – finding defects in 3D printing. Vanderbilt researchers have developed a technique for gold to actually ‘shine’ inside 3D printed parts to highlight any problems. “This is one of the first applications using gold for defect detection....

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Adams, Rosenthal and Jennings Featured in and Nanowerk and Vanderbilt Research News

Nov. 23, 2016—Mood ring materials – a new way to detect damage in failing infrastructure “Mood ring materials” could play an important role in minimizing and mitigating damage to the nation’s failing infrastructure. The American Society of Civil Engineers has estimated that more than $3.6 trillion in investment is needed by 2020 to rehabilitate and modernize the...

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