Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

The National Science Foundation has named 10 Vanderbilt engineering graduate researchers as recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships. The program is aimed at aiding individuals who have demonstrated notable potential early in their research career. An additional goal is increasing the diversity of the science and engineering workforce. “Increasing diversity in… Read More

Artiphon, a Nashville music technology startup with its “everything instrument,” has tapped two engineering student teams to tackle engineering challenges as their senior design projects. Those teams join hundreds of Vanderbilt engineering seniors who have spent two semesters on projects. They all will demonstrate their readiness to tackle real-world engineering… Read More

The use of high-performance carbon fibers in the past 50 years has revolutionized product design and manufacturing – from airplanes and automobiles to golf clubs and skateboards. However, the barrier to expanding applications for the stalwart carbon composites and the advanced composite materials being developed now is an ‘outdated and… Read More

Samera Zavaro, far left, a forensic scientist with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, talks about breathalyzer tests while waiting to administer one to a student chewing crackers. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Students in a biomaterial manipulation class got an inside look at a piece of equipment they hope… Read More

Sonia Brady, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering, at work in the Lang Laboratory. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt University) Nature exquisitely engineered a way to produce fuel from organic matter. The answer to how lies in decaying leaves on the forest floor or a backyard compost pile and the… Read More

The School of Engineering’s graduate program is No. 35 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2016 graduate program rankings were released today. The school, which tied with Yale University, ranks ahead of Boston University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and just behind the University of Colorado-Boulder. MIT… Read More

R. Byron Pipes to deliver Hall Engineering Lecture March 30 A globally recognized polymer sciences researcher will deliver the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture March 30. R. Byron Pipes, Purdue University R. Byron Pipes, John Leighton Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Purdue University, will deliver a… 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

WATCH: In Loving Memory of Major Peyton S. Mathis Jr. The remains of a Vanderbilt University chemical engineer who died in a World War II fighter plane crash were laid to rest last week in Montgomery, Ala. Major Peyton S. Mathis Jr. played football for Vanderbilt and… Read More