Year: 2011

Move in day took place over the weekend. Read More

For five weeks, Ashleigh Hammer lay tethered to machines and bound in a web of wires and intravenous lines. On a day in early September, she gazed up at the blinking heart monitor beside her hospital bed. Faster, faster, faster the monitor flashed. 120 beats – 200 beats – 250… Read More

Alumni Memorial Hall on the Vanderbilt campus has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, one of several sites in Middle Tennessee to recently receive the designation from the National Park Service. Read More

Check your weights, blood pressure and body mass index and use those numbers for your Go for the Gold challenge. Read More

If there is a campus emergency, be sure you are in the know. Read More

Vanderbilt University will begin welcoming first-year students to campus first thing Saturday morning, Aug. 20, when move-in begins at 7 a.m. at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, Vanderbilt’s first-year student community. Read More

Despite the uncertainties surrounding climate change, it is time to start developing effective strategies to keep the nation’s transportation systems and other critical infrastructure running. Read More

Every songwriter has his or her own process of writing. Beth Nielsen Chapman, for example, almost always starts with the melody. Then, she discovers the lyrics in what she describes as a surreal, intuitive way. “I start with a sound, and I follow the sound,” she explained. “I use my… Read More

The first lecture of the 2011-12 Chancellor’s Lecture Series will recognize the research of Associate Professor of Musicology Jim Lovensheimer, who will present “Why Musicals Matter” on Sept. 6. The lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Turner Hall at the Blair School of Music. Read More

Preschool teachers’ use of sophisticated vocabulary and analytic talk about books, combined with early support for literacy in the home, can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition. Read More

The changing Arab world, challenges for U.S. tax policy, world architecture and current perspectives on the American Civil War are among the varied fall offerings by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. The non-credit classes are geared toward older adults who want to pursue lifelong learning in a stimulating… Read More

Effective Aug. 19, VUprint, the campus pay-for-print service, has been replaced with a new system that will include expanded options for users. Read More

Researchers have discovered how key proteins are “turned on” and transmit signals inside the cell. The discovery could lead to new, more effective drugs. Read More

Acclaimed poet Billy Collins will spend a two-week residency at Vanderbilt University this fall, visiting with students, lecturing on poetry as part of Vanderbilt’s Saturday University and giving a public reading. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Police Department will set up Operation ID stations at the Central, Peabody and Science and Engineering libraries for students, staff and faculty to register their personal laptops, netbooks, tablets or bikes for free to protect against theft. Read More

Vanderbilt University has been certified by the NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification. The NCAA announced Aug. 18 that Vanderbilt is among 28 member institutions in this latest cycle of the division’s athletics certification process. Read More

The Health Plus Aerobic Challenge will end with a two-hour superclass that includes six 20-minute classes. Read More

The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center’s Stacey Bonner recently spoke with Lt. Terry Hutcherson and Victim Services Coordinator Jyl Shaffer of the Vanderbilt University Police Department about some back-to-school safety tips for young children. Read More

The security and flexibility of Vanderbilt’s student records system will be improved significantly by a major transition from Vanderbilt’s existing student legacy system to PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. Read More

Physicist David Ernst has received a 2011 Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science award for his mentorship of underrepresented minority students. Read More