Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Dean Kenneth F. Galloway announced May 10 the promotions of four engineering faculty members at the final faculty meeting of the 2010-2011 academic year and presented four awards at a reception following the meeting. Sharon M. Weiss   One faculty member has been promoted to the rank of associate professor… Read More

Graduate student Juan Tuberquia from the Jennings group will defend his Ph.D thesis on May 18th 2011 at 1 pm in 135 Olin Hall. Surface-Initiated Polymethylenation to Grow Superhydrophobic Barrier Films The modification of surface properties has become a vital focus in materials research and is fueled by the interesting… Read More

It’s common knowledge that the perfect is the enemy of the good, but in the nanoscale world, perfection can act as the enemy of the best. In the workaday world, engineers and scientists go to great lengths to make the devices we use as perfect as possible. When we flip… Read More

The Vanderbilt Garden Initiative is looking for a few good gardeners this summer and next year. Ideally, faculty and students staying in Nashville this summer will plant warm weather crops, such as peppers and beans, to sustain the garden until students arrive for the fall semester. After warm crops are… Read More

G. Kane Jennings A series of free educational seminars featuring Vanderbilt faculty will be available to parents and Commencement visitors from 1:30 to 3:45 p.m. on Senior Day, Thursday, May 12. Faculty seminars prove to be popular with the parents and guests of graduates during Vanderbilt University’s annual Commencement… Read More

Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and Michael Simpson, professor of materials science and engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, published a Perspective article in the April issue of the ACS Nano on the role of correlations and fluctuations in physical and biological… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos presented five faculty members with awards when Vanderbilt‘s Spring Faculty Assembly convened April 7. Professors of psychology and human development, French and Italian, chemistry and biomedical engineering and earth and environmental sciences were recognized before the chancellor addressed the assembly. Clare McCabe, associate professor of chemical… Read More

The School of Engineering’s Ph.D. program tied for No. 37 with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ranking ahead of Virginia, Case Western Reserve and Washington University in St. Louis, and just behind Rice, Yale and University of Colorado-Boulder in U.S. News’s 2012 rankings of Best Engineering Schools, which were released today. MIT… Read More

Graduate student Zhou Xu from the Laibinis group will defend his Ph.D thesis on March 18th 2011 at 11.10 am in 107 Olin Hall. Engineered Microarrayed Surfaces for the Detection of Biomolecules DNA microarrays have become an increasingly important tool for genomic investigations. This work is directed toward establishing methods… Read More

Engineering students at Vanderbilt University will showcase their ingenuity through a series of challenging – but fun – competitions and events celebrating the 60th anniversary of National Engineers Week Feb. 21-25. Two guest speakers are part of the week’s special events. Their presentations will be streamed live at http://news.vanderbilt.edu/ . Read More