Environmental Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Environmental engineer visits home to help rice farmers overcome drought

    Thushara Gunda, second from left, performing water tests in Sri Lanka. (Submitted photo) Thushara Gunda’s palm and fingertips remain bronzed with the stain of henna – applied the traditional Indian way and made to last for weeks. It’s a whimsical souvenir from a trip home. But her… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Kosson receives U.S. academy’s environmental engineering certification

    David Kosson is the fourth Vanderbilt environmental engineering faculty member in three years to be accepted into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a board certified environmental engineering member. He joins Eugene LeBoeuf, professor of civil engineering, who was accepted in December 2013;… Read More

    Feb. 9, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering announces appointment of two new faculty members

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of two new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff. They are Karl E. Zelik and Shihong Lin. Lin will join the faculty in January 2015. Zelik Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Karl Zelik focuses his research on biomechanics of locomotion. Read More

    Aug. 29, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Graduate student wins $150,000 DOE fellowship and top prize in fuel cycle research competition

    Timothy Ault, a doctoral student in environmental engineering, has won a three-year $150,000 fellowship from the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy to support his studies at Vanderbilt. This is a multi-year agreement that will be the funding vehicle for this and any future Nuclear Energy Scholarship or Fellowship… Read More

    Aug. 1, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Third environmental engineering professor is certified by U.S. academy

    Eugene LeBoeuf is the third Vanderbilt environmental engineering faculty member in two years to be accepted into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a board certified environmental engineering member. Eugene LeBoeuf LeBoeuf, associate professor of civil and environmental… Read More

    Dec. 9, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Krahn receives U.S. academy’s environmental engineering certification

    Steven L. Krahn, professor of the practice of nuclear environmental engineering, has been accepted by eminence into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a Board Certified Environmental Engineering Member in the specialty practice of hazardous waste management. Krahn Krahn performs research in the technologies associated with the… Read More

    Jul. 9, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Hays recognized by national institute with lifetime achievement award

    Steve M. Hays (BE’73), chairman of Nashville-based architectural, environmental, health and safety consulting firm Gobbell Hays Partners, Inc., received the 2012 Mortimer M. Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award Jan. 9 from the National Institute of Building Sciences at a banquet during the organization’s annual conference Jan. 7-11 in Washington, D.C. Hays,… Read More

    Jan. 22, 2013