Chemical Engineering

Mary Ellen Ternes, chemical engineering alumna and member of the External Advisory Committee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, attended the fall EAC meeting on campus in September. Photo|Susan Urmy, Vanderbilt An American Institute of Chemical Engineers Fellow, one of only two attorney AIChE Fellows, is the president-elect… Read More

George Trabue Vanderbilt School of Engineering distinguished alumnus George O’Bryan Trabue Jr., 86, died Aug. 10, 2019, in Kingsport, Tennessee. Trabue received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 1955. He went on to do postgraduate work at the London School of Economics. He served as a Lieutenant in the… Read More

Rachel Strons, a rising junior majoring in chemical engineering, has received a SMART Scholarship, a prestigious program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. (Vanderbilt University) Rachel Strons, a rising junior, has been selected as a SMART Scholar by the U.S. Department of Defense. The SMART award—which stands for Science,… Read More

Piran Kidambi (Vanderbilt University) Where researchers who worked with two-dimensional materials and those who worked with membranes were once separate, synergistic opportunities are resulting in exciting new developments at their intersection, a Vanderbilt University chemical and biomolecular engineering professor has both opined and proven. In a… Read More

Chemical engineering senior Marie Armbruster has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Galicia, Spain, from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Armbruster will support the teaching of English in local plurilingual schools. Marie Armbruster Armbruster is one of more than 1,900… Read More

Steve Hays, the co-founder of Nashville-based Gobbell Hays Partners Environmental + Architecture, died Sept. 27 after an extended illness. He was 66. Hays, considered a national expert on asbestos-removal issues, was chairman emeritus of the company he co-founded with Ron Gobbell. GHP is 14th-biggest architectural firm in Nashville, according to… Read More

Nearly 100 guests attended a dinner party in Nashville hosted by Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in honor of engineering alumnus Ben Schulman’s 100th birthday. Several hundred well-wishers at Vanderbilt University marked Ben Schulman’s 100th birthday during a celebration weekend – Jan. 20-22 – in Nashville. The university honored Schulman… Read More

A highly recognized researcher and prolific writer dedicated to creating a better environment, Joan F. Brennecke will deliver the fall 2016 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture. Brennecke is the Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre… Read More

Sandra Cochran, president and chief executive officer of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., and Vanderbilt engineering alumna (ChemE’80), will be honored at a campus Leadership Symposium and a celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the national ROTC program on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Chancellor… Read More

John T. Wilson John T. Wilson, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award. The five-year, $500,000 grant – Engineering Polymeric Nanomaterials for Programming Innate Immunity – will allow Wilson to develop new synthetic materials for “encoding” immunological messages and… Read More