Alumni

Ira August "Gus" Hunt III (Photo courtesy of VentureBeat) A Vanderbilt engineering graduate who retired from the CIA discussed recently what wearable technology can do — including hand valuable information about users to hackers. A clip of Ira “Gus” Hunt appeared in a Fox… Read More

Two engineering professors are members of the first cohort of the Chancellor Faculty Fellows program. Scott Guelcher Scott Guelcher, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and associate professor of biomedical engineering. Guelcher researches the design, synthesis and characterization of… Read More

A multimedia exhibition this summer at the University of Newcastle’s museum includes graduates who have helped shape the university’s global recognition through their distinguished careers. Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering The exhibition will include a profile of Peter Cummings, associate dean for research in the School… Read More

President Barack Obama announced Feb. 11 his intent to nominate Allen Croff to a key administration post. Allen Croff Croff, an appointee for membership on the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He lectures on nuclear reactors, the nuclear… Read More

Duco Jansen E. Duco Jansen will receive the Caroline and William Mark Memorial Award in April at the 35th annual conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. Jansen, associate dean for graduate studies in the School of Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering… Read More

David Kosson is the fourth Vanderbilt environmental engineering faculty member in three years to be accepted into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a board certified environmental engineering member. He joins Eugene LeBoeuf, professor of civil engineering, who was accepted in December 2013;… Read More

Fauchet School of Engineering Dean Philippe Fauchet has announced the establishment of The Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt. The newest research center in the school “will regroup not only the faculty members who focus on biomedical applications inside and outside engineering, but also those faculty members whose main research activities include… Read More

Race car driver and engineering alumnus Brad Jaeger can be seen very briefly in a 90-second Nissan commercial during the 2015 Super Bowl on Feb. 1 featuring the relationship between a race car driver and his… Read More

Vanderbilt School of Engineering students Lina Granados, left, a soccer player, and Kendyll Dellinger, a bowler. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) All of Vanderbilt University’s engineering students experience the tough classes, long nights of homework and challenging labs. But some push themselves even further, spending hours more on the… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering alumni James H. Littlejohn and Mark L. Reuss will be inducted into the School of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni at a special event in April. Kenneth F. Galloway and James J. Truchard will inducted as inaugural members of the school’s newly-created Circle of Distinguished Friends. The Distinguished… Read More