Year: 2011

Author Siva Vaidhaynathan will discuss his book about Google at 1 p.m. Friday, April 8. Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 8 talk by Mandy Carter, one of the leading African American lesbian activists in the country. In “Justice or Just Us?” she discusses the LGBTQI movement’s difficulty in acknowledging paths blazed by the women’s movement and the Black Civil Rights movement, challenging everyone to… Read More

One of the world’s foremost mathematicians, Vaughan F. R. Jones, has accepted a position as distinguished professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University beginning in the fall of 2011. Read More

An April 4 shot of storm damage to Greek Row. Power has been restored to the area and downed trees and limbs are being cleared. (Jenny Mandeville / Vanderbilt) Power has been restored to most of the Greek Row area. Power to the Lamda Chi Alpha house is expected to… Read More

“What the Kennedy Center represents is that people are willing to take seriously the needs and the potential of people with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities,” Shriver said. Read More

(last updated 2:50 p.m., April 5) (Vanderbilt University/Bill Randles) Electricity remains out along Greek Row due to a blown transformer. Due to the severity of the damage done to a transformer, Vanderbilt will use a temporary generator for the next two to three days to power  the Tarpley, West… Read More

    For many of our students, Commencement is one of the most important days of their lives. Be part of the excitement and festivities by volunteering. Volunteers are an important and indispensable part of what makes Commencement a successful and memorable event each year. We… Read More

Ciaran Carson, author of nine poetry collections including the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collecion Breaking News, will appear 7 p.m. in Room 126 Wilson Hall. Read More

Some sequels we wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole (but we aren’t haters, so we won’t mention any names).  But THIS event was too good to not bring back, and if you attended Cupcake-palooza last year at Fido, we think you’ll agree. Like a good sequel should be,… Read More

Sign up now for the Shade Tree Trot; the 5K charity race to support the Shade Tree Clinic. The race provides financial support for the free health clinic’s growing operating expenses and aims to raise awareness of the clinic’s mission throughout the community. For more information, and to sign… Read More

Cheryl Major has been teaching neonatal resuscitation and acting as an ambassador for Vanderbilt for 40 years. Here she teaches Laura Goins, R.N., B.S.N. (on the left) and Kristina Willis, R.N. (on the right). (Vanderbilt University/Mary Donaldson) Cheryl Major, R.N., may have saved more babies than anyone in the… Read More

For the 27th year, the July House Organ will be the Summer Reading Issue, filled with the winners of  the House Organ Writing Contest—poems, short stories and nonfiction pieces contributed by Vanderbilt staff, faculty and students. Keep reading >>  … Read More

Research from Peabody College faculty members Donna Ford and Rich Milner is featured in the latest volume released by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Read More

There is a new dark-horse entry in the cosmological sweepstakes. Cosmologists Alan Guth, left, and Paul Steinhardt In the last 50 years, the Big Bang theory has gradually become the standard scientific model for how the universe began and has been written into the grade school science… Read More

Electricity remains out this evening along Greek Row due to a blown transformer. High winds that swept through the Vanderbilt campus shortly after 2 p.m. April 4 left the area buildings without power. Read More

(Jenny Mandeville / Vanderbilt) View update on this story. Several trees were downed and power knocked out to some areas of the Vanderbilt campus as a result of high winds that accompanied a storm that swept through campus shortly after 2 p.m. April 4. Only one, apparently minor, injury… 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

This year’s Commencement will incorporate cool technology, sleek branding and armchair viewing Tricky names should ring out more accurately at Vanderbilt’s Commencement exercises this year. Finding a comfortable place to watch the festivities also will be easier. Innovative new technology to correctly announce graduates’ names will free up Vanderbilt’s… Read More

The Center for Teaching’s new fellowship helps junior faculty craft their curriculum Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman knows a lot about economics, the Talmud, rabbinic ordination and more. But when he arrived at Vanderbilt in 2009, there was something he wasn’t quite ready to handle despite his three master’s degrees and Ph.D. “I… Read More

French professor Holly Tucker delves into the fascinating history of blood transfusions Watching the State of the Union address by President George W. Bush in 2006, Holly Tucker was struck by the president’s strong statements about interspecies stem cell research. In the speech, Bush called for “legislation to prohibit the… Read More