Drought

  • Vanderbilt University

    Civil & environmental grad student takes top spot at Three Minute Thesis Competition

    Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Thushara Gunda delivers her Three Minute Thesis on helping Sri Lankan farmers with drought. (Daniel DuBois/Vanderbilt University) Topics ranged from giving nanoparticles the aquatic skills of an Olympic swimmer so they can deliver anti-cancer drugs more effectively…to developing an ultrasonic Trojan… Read More

    Mar. 2, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    VU’s more specific drought-measuring tool could help shape policy

    Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Thushara Gunda delivers her Three Minute Thesis on helping Sri Lankan farmers with drought. (Daniel DuBois/Vanderbilt University) Topics ranged from giving nanoparticles the aquatic skills of an Olympic swimmer so they can deliver anti-cancer drugs more effectively…to developing an ultrasonic Trojan… Read More

    May. 26, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Environmental engineer visits home to help rice farmers overcome drought

    Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Thushara Gunda delivers her Three Minute Thesis on helping Sri Lankan farmers with drought. (Daniel DuBois/Vanderbilt University) Topics ranged from giving nanoparticles the aquatic skills of an Olympic swimmer so they can deliver anti-cancer drugs more effectively…to developing an ultrasonic Trojan… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2015