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Sarah Driscoll, a junior in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the second place national winner in the 2023 IGNITE Off! Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) and hosted by the Oak Ridge Institute for… Read More

The Department of Energy has renewed its partnership with the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. The IACMI is a community of industry, universities, national laboratories and government agencies working together to accelerate the development and adoption of innovative manufacturing technologies. The funding… Read More

A Vanderbilt engineering team won top spot in a U.S. Department of Energy STEM competition. Team members are (L-R) Maggie Chudik, Alexandra Filipova, Arielle Kopp and Jacqueline Quirke. As the DOE challenge applicant, Kopp  presented the project at the Jan. 26-27 finals in Colorado. She has been offered a summer internship… Read More

Megan Harkema, a third-year graduate student studying nuclear environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University, has been awarded a prize in the Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Fuel and Supply Chain. Megan Harkema Harkema’s research paper, The Dynamic Nature… Read More

A U.S. Department of Energy $4 million initiative to advance research in isotope production includes a Vanderbilt engineering professor’s work on separation technologies and to scale up processes. The funding is part of a key federal program that produces critical isotopes otherwise unavailable or in short supply for U.S. science,… Read More

Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists… Read More

Before the start of her sophomore year, Kristi Maisha joined other Vanderbilt students and faculty on a trip to Sterling Ranch, a mixed-use development south of Denver. The trip included a tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in nearby Golden, Co., hosted by a civil engineering alumna who is… Read More

Vanderbilt risk and reliability engineers will work with MISO Power, which operates the grid in 15 states, to build better predictive models for renewable energy. The U.S. electricity market has never been simple but it has relied on highly predictable models. Loads are high during very hot and very cold… Read More

Caroline Janssen, a civil engineering senior, is part of a team working with Array of Things sensors on campus to capture mobility and air quality data. (Photo: Shun Ahmed) Do riders of bicycles and scooters dismount before crossing the pedestrian bridge over Hillsboro Road, as they should? How does the… Read More

A prominent alumna who spent nearly two years here as a visiting scholar from the U.S. Department of Energy is now vice president of an environmental remediation and consulting firm based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Susan Cange Sue Cange, BE ’82, MS ’83, is vice president of environmental and regulatory… Read More