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Australia’s University of Melbourne and Vanderbilt University have taken their academic partnership to a new level – committing $500,000 in joint seed funding over the next two years for research collaborations, expanding exchange programs for students, faculty and staff, and sharing space in Vanderbilt’s Office of Federal Relations in Washington, D.C.
Vanderbilt University has ranked 51st on the 2010-2011 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, up from 140 last year.
Dr. Kevin B. Churchwell, chief executive officer and executive director of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, is departing to become the new system senior vice president and CEO of the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del. He will begin his work at Nemours in November.
This and other findings from a three-year experiment – the first scientific study of performance pay ever conducted in the United States – were released at a conference on evaluating and rewarding educator effectiveness hosted by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt.
When officials at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of “new physics,” a group of about a dozen physicists gathered in a conference room on campus and watched the videocast from Switzerland intently. The small gathering Sept. 21 included several Vanderbilt scientists who are members of the LHC team that found the new and surprising phenomena. Although none of them played a key role in the discovery, they will be deeply involved in the battery of follow-up experiments planned to get additional information about it.
The author of the award-winning biography The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Stiles will launch the 2010-2011 Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Lecture Series on Sept. 29.
Nashville music industry executive James Foglesong will be the focus of an intimate, revealing conversation with journalist Peter Cooper on Sunday, Oct. 3, in the Blair School of Music’s Ingram hall. This free 4 p.m. event will be recorded for later broadcast on public television.
Come celebrate with your friends and co-workers as we honor their dedication to Vanderbilt. All 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 55-year anniversary employees will be honored at a ceremony on Sept. 27.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen recently introduced “Eat Well, Play More Tennessee: Tennessee Statewide Nutrition and Physical Activity Plan,” the state’s first, ambitious, five-year plan to halt obesity.
StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series will open its 2010-2011 season with visual and graffiti artist Barry McGee. McGee, also known as Twist, will lecture Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. in Wilson Hall 103. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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