Research

They call it “The Extractionator.”  The prototype looks like nothing more than a length of clear plastic tubing until you inspect it closely. But it could be the basis of an easy-to-use and low-cost sample collection and preparation system that will help bring the benefits of medical diagnostic testing to… Read More

About two million pounds of mercury dating back to the early days of the Cold War is still trapped inside old process buildings at the Oak Ridge, Tenn. nuclear facility and saturating the ground around them, according to a Dec. 18 article in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Process Building The Department… 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

    The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity – a basic property generally considered to be fixed for a given material – gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smart phones and computers, lasers and a number of other powered… Read More

Lloyd Massengill , professor of electrical engineering and computer engineering, knows radiation from as far away as deep space and as close as our sun poses significant dangers to both space-based and earthbound computers that control missile-guidance systems, supercomputers and telecommunications systems, and even cell phones and iPods. The cost… Read More

  Robert A. Weller, professor of electrical engineering, professor of materials science and engineering, and professor of physics, has been elected a fellow by the American Physical Society, or APS, one the world’s largest organizations for physicists, for contributions to the understanding of the interactions of radiation with microelectronic materials… Read More

Four engineering professors received newly endowed chairs in late 2011, bringing the total of named chairs in the School of Engineering to 12. The recipients are Benoit Dawant and David Kosson, both named a Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is the Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering. 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

More than 100 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research at Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities attended the 12th annual forum on Nov. 9 at Buttrick Hall. Each year the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering sponsors a full-day of presentations, poster sessions and… Read More