Year: 2012

UPDATE: We regret that due to high demand, we are unfortunately out of aprons. Turkeys and tofurkeys are still available. Vanderbilt’s annual Turkey Toss, at which all faculty and staff may pick up a free holiday turkey, is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 14. Visit the “Turkey Cam”… Read More

Rizia Bardhan (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Rizia Bardhan has a large picture of Mahatma Gandhi in her office. “Gandhi has always been very special to me,” she said. “We share the same birthday. He exemplifies the power of perseverance.” Perseverance has carried the new assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular… Read More

William W. Featheringill, a Vanderbilt University Board of Trust member, alumnus and entrepreneur for whom Vanderbilt’s Featheringill Hall is named, died Sunday, Dec. 9. He was 70. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at Independent Presbyterian Church, 3100 Highland Ave. S., Birmingham,… Read More

Women, homosexuals and people with darker skin tones continue to face discrimination in the Americas, according to responses to the 2012 AmericasBarometer survey of Vanderbilt University’s Latin American Public Opinion Project. Read More

The Aerospace Club has partnered with Peabody College to produce a five-week program using soda bottle rockets to introduce middle school students to basic engineering principles. Read More

Vanderbilt chemist John McLean served as one of the 14 members of the NRC expert committee that prepared a report in September that recommends the potential of new methods for monitoring the process of destroying the remainder of the nation’s aging stockpile of chemical warfare munitions that could reduce the time and expense involved by almost two thirds. Read More

Megan Piphus Megan Piphus, a junior in the College of Arts and Science, is scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Tuesday, Dec. 11. The Cincinnati native and resident adviser in North House at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons will perform her… Read More

A photograph of a smiling young man standing beside a gas pump at a Spur Gas station in Henderson, Ky., sits in the offices of Gigi Lazenby, BA’67, MBA’73. The year was 1931 and the young man—her father, Paul Banks Jr.—would eventually work his way to President of that same… Read More

(Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Nashville Mayor Karl Dean (foreground, second from left) was at Vanderbilt Dec. 6 to participate in a two-mile campus walk with faculty and staff. The event was part of the Walk 100 Miles with the Mayor initiative for 2012. Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Beth… Read More

A rare genetic syndrome provides new clues to lung scarring (pulmonary fibrosis), a potentially deadly consequence of many lung diseases. Read More

Gary T. Henry (Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) It has been said that the next great wave of education reform is teacher preparation. If that assertion holds true, Gary T. Henry is prepared to bring evidence to the table. Henry has spent his career looking at how students and… Read More

We love hearing from our fans, friends and followers. Below are just a few of our favorite Tweets and Instagram photos from the past week. Be a part of the conversation – follow Vanderbilt on Twitter and Instagram and tag your photos #vandy.   [View the story… Read More

The Vanderbilt Woman’s Club invites the Nashville community to Scholar-Sips, an evening of wine tasting and socializing, and most importantly, an evening that supports our amazing Vanderbilt students. The annual event is set for Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Read More

(Vanderbilt University) The Office of the Dean of Students has announced it will reorganize its efforts in the areas of diversity education and leadership development through the creation of two new offices, the re-purposing of an existing office and the creation of two new cross-departmental committees. The… Read More

Most triple-negative breast cancer patients who were treated with chemotherapy to shrink the tumor prior to surgery still had multiple genetic mutations in their tumor cells, according to a study by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators. Read More

"The implications of MOOCs for community between faculty and students, as well as the relationships within and between local and global learning communities, interest and excite me," writes Doug Fisher, associate professor of computer science and computer engineering, in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read More

Components of human breast milk help ward off viral infection, a new study shows. Read More

The White House Fellows Program is currently in the process of recruiting the 2013-14 Class of White House Fellows. The Fellowship is America’s most prestigious nonpartisan program for leadership and public service. The Fellowship is designed to provide young leaders an opportunity to experience how government works… Read More

(photo courtesy of Blair School of Music) One of the most popular ensembles in Vanderbilt’s precollege division, the Blair Children’s Chorus, will present a free concert at Ingram Hall on Dec.14 at 7:30 p.m. This concert will feature performances by each of the six choirs of the… Read More

Four Vanderbilt School of Engineering faculty members have been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create new tools, including a web-based modeling and simulation infrastructure, intended to help speed up the development of miniature medical capsule robots. Read More