Vanderbilt Center For Science Outreach

The Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach will host its second annual summer day camp, Science Exploration Experience for Kids (SEEK), during the month of June. The camp, for rising first through sixth graders, is held at Eakin Elementary School for weeklong sessions exploring themes such as animals, engineering, chemistry and robotics. Read More

More than a dozen Cassiopea were given to the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt by the Tennessee Aquarium. Read More

Another participant in the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt has advanced in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Read More

SustainVU, the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach and Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science are subgrant recipients of a $91,000, two-year EPA grant to Nashville’s Urban Green Lab to deliver hands-on science and sustainability education to Nashville middle- and high-schoolers. Read More

Girls And Science (GAS) Camp 2015 will be held June 15-19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. It is open to rising eighth and ninth graders and sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach. Read More

BEST Camp 2015 will be held June 8-12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. It is open to rising eighth and ninth graders and sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach. Read More

Hillsboro High School senior Alex Jolly advanced to the semi-finals in the Intel Science Talent Search with his research project on cave drugs. Read More

Teaching has turned into a “team sport” at Bailey STEM Magnet Middle School, thanks to a partnership with Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

Environmental scientist Chris Vanags will discuss overcoming obstacles to scientific innovation at the Nov. 5 Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box talk at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

Through a partnership between Vanderbilt and Metro Nashville Public Schools, a group of dedicated teachers returned to the classroom this year with a new skill set and the tools to incorporate GIS mapping technology into their curriculum. Read More

Among those graduating May 10 from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt is Hume-Fogg High School valedictorian Chelsea Guo. Read More

More than 100 sixth graders from Wright Middle School met the Vanderbilt graduate student pen pals with whom they have been corresponding and were treated to a tour of Vanderbilt University Medical Center facilities on April 16. Read More

The School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt celebrated its title of “greenest group on campus” at the Vanderbilt vs. Texas A&M basketball game Feb. 15. Read More

During his remarks to the third graduating class of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV) on Saturday, May 11, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., didn’t give an address — he told a story instead. Read More

A group of Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff will share their research and passion for science and technology with middle and high school students at the nation’s largest science fair April 27-29 in Washington, D.C. Read More

Virginia Shepherd (Vanderbilt University) Virginia Shepherd, professor of pathology and science education at Vanderbilt, will discuss Nobel Prize-awarded women from several aspects – their educational backgrounds and opportunities, their families, their scientific contributions and their acceptance by colleagues – on Thursday, March 29, at Vanderbilt… Read More

Mayor Karl Dean (Vanderbilt)   Mayor Karl Dean of Nashville presented Vanderbilt’s Center for Science Outreach with a prestigious award. The center, which is dedicated to enhancing science literacy through partnerships between Vanderbilt scientists, K-12 educators… Read More

The Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach puts science in the hands of students Angela Eeds, director of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt, gives instruction to Chelsea Guo and Augtonia Coleman, freshmen at Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School. Photo by Daniel Dubois They treated him like a rock… Read More