Year: 2011

Members of the Vanderbilt community are invited to help Alabama storm victims May 7-8. Read More

Recreational Ecstasy use is associated with a chronic change in brain function, raising concerns about proposals to use it to treat post-traumatic stress and other disorders. Read More

Psychology professor Isabel Gauthier, an expert in the science of face recognition, relishes the process of discovery – and mentoring graduate students along the way. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are exploring what role, if any, bacteria play in environmental diversity, with the aim of answering one of biology's most fundamental questions. Read More

"View" Editor Joan Brasher reflects on Vanderbilt’s symbols of strength and constancy. Read More

Learn about the latest awards, appointments and achievements of Vanderbilt's faculty and staff. Read More

The stately magnolias that protect campus from the dust and noise of busy West End and 21st avenues are the living legacy of former Vanderbilt first lady Margaret Branscomb and the members of the Vanderbilt Garden Club. Read More

Hank Murrey, area maintenance supervisor for The Commons, applies his handyman skills at Whippoorwill Day Camp, a summertime tradition for area children for the last 40 years. Read More

Employee Celebration events coming up include a picnic, symphony concert on the lawn and service awards recognition. Read More

Seventh annual bike ride begins and ends at Vanderbilt's campus. Read More

Vanderbilt Medical Center staff are featured on the new TLC program "Baby's First Day." Read More

Faculty and graduate students who participated in Vanderbilt Center for Teaching programs this academic year were recognized. Read More

University Central faculty and staff are asked to alter their usual parking practices on Commencement day, May 13. Read More

Vanderbilt University researchers are partnering with the Chinese government to test methods for reducing the spread of the AIDS virus among gay men. Read More

Domestic issues are likely to trump foreign policy successes in determining Barack Obama’s chances for re-election, says historian Thomas Alan Schwartz. Read More

Watch Father Ernesto Cardenal, an acclaimed poet and liberation theologian, giving a reading of his poetry May 1. Cardenal recited poems from his recent collection The Origin of Species and Other Poems in Benton Chapel on the Vanderbilt campus. Cardenal, acknowledged as one of Latin America’s greatest living poets, is… Read More

Photo courtesy Jean Kang   Vanderbilt art students Jean Kang and Will Rigby won awards from the Department of Art worth $25,000 and $10,000, respectively. Their work and that of other students is currently on display at the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center. Kang,… Read More

Information Technology Services will be changing the vendor that provides VUmailguard from Proofpoint to Forefront Online on May 25. VUmailguard is the service which provides anti-spam and anti-virus protection for email.  ITS expects that users will notice minimal differences with this change. A comparison of features of the current… Read More

The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) is planning a Green Bag Luncheon Series throughout the 2011-2012 academic year. This educational series will feature a variety of informal lunchtime lectures and/or workshops discussing a wide variety of sustainability topics. Please take a few minutes to provide input regarding… Read More

The bible of the entertainment industry has taken note of a film made in Nashville with the participation of Vanderbilt students. Variety magazine calls Música Campesina “easygoing and rambling” in a review in its April 28 edition. Música Campesina is the work of Alberto Fuguet, a visiting… Read More