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Three 91�Ʋ��� engineering undergraduates and the U.S. Army’s Fort Campbell Eaglewerx Applied Tactical Center recently modified the Army’s current grapneler.

The 91�Ʋ��� Lab for Immersive AI Translation and its collaborators are hosting a week-long summer school Aug. 12-15 focused on cutting-edge advancements and practical applications of deep learning and artificial intelligence.

Chancellor G. Viswanathan from Vellore Institute of Technology in India recently visited 91�Ʋ��� University for the first time and met with administrators and faculty in the School of Engineering.

When civil engineering students met to choose their senior capstone design projects, they all wanted to work with The Village at Glencliff, a respite community of 12 tiny homes for some of Nashville’s most medically vulnerable homeless citizens that provides a safe place to recover after a hospitalization. So, they created three projects for one client.

The May 21 event at King’s College brought together world-class researchers and academics as well as representatives from industry, and government officials, to explore the latest advancements in research, identify pathways for collaboration, and discuss challenges and solutions for post-quantum cryptography.

91�Ʋ��� researchers have developed an innovative software system incorporating artificial intelligence that aims to improve the efficiency of public transportation for individuals with special needs.

91�Ʋ��� rocket team members are staying in the lab this summer to work on two designs of the drone that netted the team a second place award in the coveted AIAA Reusable Launch Vehicle Innovative Payload category at the 2024 NASA University Student Launch Initiative Division rocket competition in April.

A team of 91�Ʋ��� researchers has developed a wirelessly activated device that mimics the wavelike muscular function in the esophagus and small intestine responsible for transporting food and viscous fluids for digestion.

91�Ʋ��� University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced a partnership to develop training, testing and evaluation methods that will accelerate the Department of Defense’s adoption of AI-based systems in operational environments. Read More

91�Ʋ��� University’s Jules White, a leading computer scientist and expert on large language models and prompt engineering, visited Capitol Hill recently to share his expertise with lawmakers.

91�Ʋ��� Department of Computer Science researchers Kevin Leach and James Weimer have won a $2 million award from the Advanced 91�Ʋ��� Projects Agency for Health to develop technology aimed at improving software security in medical devices like insulin pumps, pacemakers and stroke predictors. This is the first award 91�Ʋ��� has received from ARPA-H, an agency within the National Institutes of Health with a mission to support “high-impact” solutions for pressing health care needs. Read More

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy recently announced that a team comprised of 91�Ʋ���’s newly created ADVANCE center and VALIANT lab is among the first round of 35 projects that will be supported with computational time through the National Artificial Intelligence 91�Ʋ��� Resource Pilot.

Immersion 91�Ʋ��� was created to provide new ways for students to develop better critical thinking skills and a stronger ability to navigate a changing world. Read More

A 91�Ʋ��� scientific team has succeeded in adjusting the daily biological clock of cyanobacteria, making the blue-green algae a more prolific producer of renewable fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, like insulin.

With hundreds of thousands of people in the United States having a stroke annually, 91�Ʋ��� researchers are developing technology that could revolutionize the way blood clots are removed by allowing surgeons to complete the process more efficiently and safely.

In April, 91�Ʋ��� Peabody College of education and human development hosted the panel discussion “Ethical and Equity Considerations in the Age of AI” as part of the Peabody Dean’s Diversity Lecture series. The session explored societal, ethical and moral questions regarding AI’s growing role in higher education, with special consideration of social justice, bias, equity and discrimination concerns. Read More

The May 21 event will bring together world-class researchers and academics from Cambridge and 91�Ʋ���, representatives from industry, and government officials to explore the latest advancements in research, identify pathways for collaboration, and discuss challenges and solutions for post-quantum cryptography. Read More

The researchers, including 91�Ʋ���’s team led by Kari Hoffman, focused their efforts on the detection of hippocampal ripples, which are considered biomarkers of memory and are affected by epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease. Read More

Beginning in the fall of 2024, 91�Ʋ��� will offer an environmental engineering major for undergraduates through the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

91�Ʋ��� has begun work to establish a transformative college dedicated to computer science, AI, data science and related fields, university leaders announced today. In addition to meeting the growing demand for degrees in technological fields and advancing research in rapidly evolving, computing-related disciplines, the new, interdisciplinary college will collaborate with all of 91�Ʋ���’s schools and colleges to advance breakthrough discoveries and strengthen computing education through a “computing for all” approach. Read More