‘research’
VU’s more specific drought-measuring tool could help shape policy
May. 26, 2015—A more specific drought-measuring formula created by a group of Vanderbilt University environmental engineers could have implications for emergency planning, federal relief payouts and drought mitigation efforts. With California’s record drought sending the state and farmers to the bargaining table over water, officials there and in other drought-stricken states are calling for more specific city- and...
Your smartphone wouldn’t exist without university research
Oct. 31, 2014—(iStock) According to a number of economic studies, somewhere between one-quarter and one-third of our current economy is based on technologies that didn’t exist 50 years ago: They are the end products of basic scientific and engineering research. It’s hard to wrap your mind around a statistic like that. So five years ago, the Association...
Doug Adams honored as Daniel F. Flowers Professor
Sep. 5, 2014—Doug Adams, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s Daniel F. Flowers Professor, was among the endowed chair recipients recognized at a reception hosted Wednesday by Provost Susan Wente and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Jeffrey Balser. Adams is director of the school’s new super-sized Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability, which formally opened in August in...
Valentine named 2014 Young Investigator by the Office of Naval Research
Sep. 1, 2014—A Vanderbilt School of Engineering faculty member has been honored by Office of Naval Research (ONR) as one of the top 24 young researchers in the United States in 2014 for his proposal to continue to develop dielectric-based optical metamaterials. Jason Valentine, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been selected as an ONR Young Investigator...
Engineering’s Cummings receives Prausnitz Award
Jun. 17, 2013—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. The award, which was presented May 30 in Argentina at an Iryapu jungle conference center near Iguazu Falls, cites his outstanding research accomplishments...
ME student selected for 2013 NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program
Apr. 8, 2013—A mechanical engineering sophomore has received early acceptance notice to take part in the 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md. The highly competitive SURF program is substantially supported by the National Science Foundation. It exposes outstanding undergraduates to cutting-edge research and state-of- the-art...
National Research Council members convene to chart future of U.S. research universities
Jan. 17, 2013—L-r: Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Sen. Lamar Alexander, former Senate Majority Leader William Frist, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Chad Holliday, chairman of the board of Bank of America, attended a meeting of the National Research Council held Jan. 16 at Vanderbilt. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) For the last half-century, American research universities have been the best...
Fauchet has role in “Research Universities and the Future of America” meeting at Vanderbilt
Jan. 9, 2013—Research Council report Leaders to discuss role of research universities and nation’s future at Vanderbilt meeting.