Alumni

The White House recognized 12 community heroes, including Vanderbilt engineering alumna Tamara Brown, BE’93, as leaders in engaging women and girls in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The ceremony took place December 9 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House where Brown was… Read More

Vanderbilt mechanical engineering graduate Krista Donaldson, BE’95 was named to Silicon Valley’s 40 Under 40 list.  The 40 under 40 awards salutes the best and brightest men and women under the age of 40 who have made significant contributions in the business, professional, civic and personal arenas. D-Rev CEO Krista… Read More

Gary Butler Camgian Microsystems Corporation, provider of advanced machine-to-machine networking technologies and solutions, announced that Gary Butler (M.S.’94), Camgian’s President and CEO, has been named by Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos to the School of Engineering’s Committee of Visitors. Composed of a distinguished list of leaders in the… Read More

Sandra B. Cochran has been named president and chief executive officer of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., effective Sept. 12, 2011, at which time she is also slated to become a member of the Board of Directors. Sandra B. Cochran Cochran holds a chemical engineering degree from Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority on July 12 will celebrate the completion of the terminal’s phase II renovation and name the main terminal building in memory of Robert C. H. Mathews Jr., the former chairman of the MNAA Board of Commissioners. Robert C. H. Mathews Jr. Mathews, who graduated from… Read More

Cynthia “C. J.” Warner BE’80 so believes that algae fuel can be a direct replacement for fossil fuel that she traded her nearly 30-year career in Big Oil to join a startup with a big vision: to change the world by developing a domestic, renewable source of energy that benefits… Read More

  Rowe Christopher Rowe, interim director of the division of general engineering and director of engineering communications, and Carrie Little Stokes, a Vanderbilt civil engineering alumna and a project manager at engineering firm Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc., are finalists for the 2011 Nashville Emerging Leader Awards. Read More

The Vanderbilt Alumni Association announced April 1 that senior Leslie Labruto will serve as the 2011 Young Alumni Trustee, where alongside the current trustees, she will seek to provide both the current student and young alumni perspectives to the Board of Trust. Labruto is a Civil Engineering major with… Read More

Civil engineer Mickey Sullivan (BE’71, ME’79), P.E., regional vice president of Gresham, Smith and Partners, was named “Outstanding Engineer of the Year” by the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE) Nashville chapter. Sullivan was honored for his sustained contributions to the engineering industry, which have improved the public welfare and… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering alumni William A. Davis Jr. and Joe M. Dorris each received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering during a Celebration Dinner held March 17 at the Huntsville (Ala.) Museum of Art. L-R, Bill Davis, Dean Kenneth F. Galloway, Joe Dorris The School of… Read More