Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Peter Cummings Peter T. Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, has received the Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The award was presented on Nov. 7 in Salt Lake City at AIChE’s annual meeting. Read More

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store named its current chief financial officer and executive vice president Sandra Cochran as president and chief operations officer on Nov. 3. Cochran, former CEO of Books-A-Million, joined the restaurant chain last year. Cochran holds a chemical engineering degree from Vanderbilt University and a master of… Read More

The 11th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum was held Wednesday, Oct. 27, in Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium in Featheringill Hall. Three engineering students placed among the top three spots in poster competition. Sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), the event is an annual forum… Read More

The Vanderbilt Career Center (VCC) hosted the Engineering and Information Technology Industry Career Day at the Student Life Center with 37 companies from across the nation in attendance on October 5. Industry Career Days serve as one of many ways to interact with potential employers. Nearly 400 undergraduate and… Read More

The Division of Sponsored Research received notification in August that the following grants in excess of $25,000 had been awarded to School of Engineering faculty: Theodore A. Bapty, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $318,834 by the Department of Defense for “Future Combat… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of four new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff. They are Melissa Skala, Jason Valentine, Nabil Simaan and Matthew Lang. Assistant professor of biomedical engineering Melissa Skala focuses her research on optical spectroscopy and nanotechnology for cancer diagnosis and therapy. Read More

Engineering faculty, students to benefit from solar research grant Five years from now, high school and college students throughout Tennessee should have more and better opportunities to learn about and pursue careers in alternative energy science and technology. That is one of the key objectives of a $20 million… Read More

Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering undergraduate program improved four positions to No. 36 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2011 annual rankings were released today. The School of Engineering tied with Lehigh University, University of California-Santa Barbara. MIT was ranked No. 1. “It is always gratifying to… Read More

Two Vanderbilt engineering assistant professors have received prestigious 2010 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards. Jamey Young, chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Haoxiang Luo, mechanical engineering, each received awards totaling $400,000, issued for the next five years. Young’s grant – Metabolic Determinants of Programmed Cell Death… Read More

Professor G. Kane Jennings, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, with doctoral student Juan Tuberquia and undergraduate student Nabijan Nizamidin, was awarded the 2010 Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the American Chemical Society. L-R, Nabijan Nizamidin, Professor G. Kane Jennings, Juan Tuberquia. The award is given to… Read More