Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Amanda M. B. Furtado’s PhD dissertation defense will be on March 15, 2012 at 1:00pm in Olin Hall 135.   NOVEL NANOPOROUS COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR LIGHT GAS ADSORPTION March 15th, 2012, Olin Hall 135 at 1:00pm Amanda M. B. Furtado Dissertation under the direction of Professor M. Douglas LeVan This… Read More

Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials for Adsorption Applications February 20th, 2012, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Krista Walton Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are inorganic-organic hybrids that represent a new direction in porous materials research. The rich field of coordination chemistry… Read More

Insight into the Kinetics of Oligomer Formation During Amyloidosis February 6th, 2012, SC 5326 Georges Belfort Howard P Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA Although the critical causative proteins for more than 20 amyloid diseases have… Read More

  Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Principal Scientist of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate and to the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. The… Read More

  Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Vanderbilt University, will receive the 2012 Yeram S. Touloukian Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The award, consisting of a bronze medal, certificate and travel grant, is… Read More

Sandra J. Rosenthal Sandra J. Rosenthal, director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is one of 14 members of Vanderbilt University’s faculty to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year. This is… Read More

Effective January 1, 2012, Peter Cummings will assume the role of an associate editor of the AIChE Journal, the flagship journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Cummings is the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Vanderbilt University. Read More

  Nanotechnology expert comes from University of Rochester Philippe Fauchet will be the new dean of the school of engineering at Vanderbilt University. Philippe Fauchet to succeed Kenneth Galloway as dean of the School of Engineering. Fauchet, currently chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University… Read More

The nation’s premier chemical engineering group has inducted M. Douglas LeVan, the J. Lawrence Wilson Professor of Engineering, as a Fellow. M. Douglas LeVan LeVan was inducted as a Fellow within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at the organization’s October annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minn. Only a minute… Read More

A team of Vanderbilt engineering seniors has been awarded $15,000 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to design a nature inspired large-scale solar cell.  The students, under the guidance of Kane Jennings, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and Amrutur Anilkumar, professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, participating… Read More