2012

Amanda M. B. Furtado’s PhD dissertation defense will be on March 15, 2012 at 1:00pm in Olin Hall 135.   NOVEL NANOPOROUS COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR LIGHT GAS ADSORPTION March 15th, 2012, Olin Hall 135 at 1:00pm Amanda M. B. Furtado Dissertation under the direction of Professor M. Douglas LeVan This… Read More

Moses Taylor, Jr., Senior Associate at Structural Integrity Associates, Inc. Taylor received a bachelor of engineering degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA in Financial Management from American University. Read More

A panel discussion for artists and others with big dreams. Read More

A number of ViSE faculty and student members of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) participated in the 2012 SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium in San Diego, Feb 4-9. Among the 908 papers and posters presented at the conference, 24 were presented by ViSE members. Among the 1144 attendees,… Read More

When it comes to information technology (IT), Nashville has made great strides, but needs much more. Doug Schmidt Our shared concern about growing our IT talent pool is undeniably on-target. Software development and broader engineering skills and sheer innovative capacity are at a premium globally, as well as nationwide. It’s… Read More

Vanderbilt professor Sokrates T. Pantelides has been selected as a 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the MRS spring meeting in San Francisco in April. Pantelides is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor… Read More

Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials for Adsorption Applications February 20th, 2012, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Krista Walton Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are inorganic-organic hybrids that represent a new direction in porous materials research. The rich field of coordination chemistry… Read More

Vanderbilt University Engineering Dean Kenneth F. Galloway attended a White House event Feb. 8 to celebrate the efforts of engineering deans for their commitment to retain and graduate more students in the field of engineering. Galloway was among about 40 engineering deans representing a broad spectrum of U.S. engineering… Read More

Insight into the Kinetics of Oligomer Formation During Amyloidosis February 6th, 2012, SC 5326 Georges Belfort Howard P Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA Although the critical causative proteins for more than 20 amyloid diseases have… Read More

  Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Principal Scientist of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate and to the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. The… Read More