Research

  • Vanderbilt University

    Krahn receives U.S. academy’s environmental engineering certification

    Steven L. Krahn, professor of the practice of nuclear environmental engineering, has been accepted by eminence into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a Board Certified Environmental Engineering Member in the specialty practice of hazardous waste management. Krahn Krahn performs research in the technologies associated with the… Read More

    Jul. 9, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    BME-powered startup wins first place in Memphis tech event

    BioNanovations, a startup company based on technology developed at Vanderbilt, claimed first place at the NewME Accelerator PopUp event held in Memphis June 28-30. Bell According to The Daily News in Memphis, the company was awarded prizes worth $45,000 and earned a seat in the 12-week NewME Accelerator program in… Read More

    Jul. 9, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Professor helps validate maps of the brain’s resting state

    Kick back and shut your eyes. Now stop thinking. You have just put your brain into what neuroscientists call its resting state. What the brain is doing when an individual is not focused on the outside world has become the focus of considerable research in recent years. One of the… Read More

    Jun. 19, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering’s Cummings receives Prausnitz Award

    Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the 2013 John M. Prausnitz Award by the Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design. Peter Cummings The award, which was presented May 30 in Argentina at an Iryapu jungle conference center near… Read More

    Jun. 17, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Genetics may have played a role in student’s cancer research grant award

    In July, Alex Walsh will step up to a podium in Saarbrucken, Germany and deliver a talk on optical metabolic imaging at an international workshop on Advanced Multiphoton and Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques. It’s her prize for winning this year’s JenLab Young Investigator Award – one of several… Read More

    Jun. 14, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt takes top prize in NASA student rocket launch challenge

    L-R: 2013 team members A. Voss, B. Dimmig, J. Langford, J. Lee, D. Watkins, B. Smethills, F. Corradetti, R. Thompson, F. Folz, and M. Mitchell with the Vanderbilt Rocket ‘Hello Good Bio.’ National championship is six years in the making Vanderbilt engineering students won their first national rocket… Read More

    May. 20, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Weiss participates in NSF advocacy day

    Following an early morning flight to Washington, D.C., on May 7, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics Sharon Weiss braved the rainy weather to head to Capitol Hill and meet with staff members in the offices of Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Bob Corker, Rep. Jim… Read More

    May. 13, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Graduate’s path to traumatic brain injury research was littered with roadside bombs

    U.S. Army Capt. David M. Barry has found himself at the forefront of cutting-edge research for improving methods for assessing and treating traumatic brain injury [TBI], delivering research findings that contain both professional and personal components at symposiums and forums. David Barry The distinguished engineering graduate (summa cum laude, Engineering… Read More

    May. 3, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Seniors’ smart car seat could prevent child deaths

    A reporter interviews senior Chelsea Stowell about the car seat project. Vanderbilt engineering students are working to prevent children from being left alone in hot cars by creating a ‘smart’ car seat. As part of a senior design project, six students invented the “Kidsense Car Seat.” It is powered… Read More

    May. 2, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Second doctoral student secures NDSEG fellowship

    Courtney Mitchell, a graduate student in chemical engineering, is the second Vanderbilt engineering student in in three weeks to be awarded a 2013 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Awarded annually to only about 200 students who intend to pursue a… Read More

    May. 1, 2013