Month: November 2013

Health Plus invites you to control the typical holiday weight gain by taking the annual Hold the Stuffing challenge. Last year 1,390 faculty and staff members participated in the challenge, and of the 804 individuals who returned for the post-holiday weigh-in, 90 percent (724 individuals) met the… Read More

Peabody professors Paul Yoder and Ann Kaiser are recipients of new grants from the National Institutes of Health Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE). Yoder and Kaiser of Vanderbilt have received ACE grants to study language interventions for young children. “Early intervention with autism is one of the big success stories,”… Read More

Eighteen academic and administrative leaders at Vanderbilt University have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year. Read More

  Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement; Joseph Murphy; Corwin, 2012 More than 2 million children in the United States are now homeschooled, up from only 15,000 40 years ago, but little research has been done on the academic and social outcomes of this student population. In… Read More

Owen professor Kelly Haws can talk about Black Friday and the holiday shopping season. Read More

Eighteen academic and administrative leaders at Vanderbilt University have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year. Read More

Early 20th-century Nashville history, the French films behind American remakes, and key discoveries about physics are among the 2014 winter term offerings from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt University. Read More

David F. Salisbury, senior research writer in Vanderbilt’s Office of News and Communications, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his achievements in communicating and interpreting science to the public. Read More

Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful, to be with family and friends and to enjoy good food. A Vanderbilt dietitian says that making sure the food you serve is prepared and stored properly can ensure that everyone has a safe and healthy experience. “[rquote]Nobody is thankful about food that… Read More

The 2014 edition of the Re:VU brochure, a concise summary of Vanderbilt’s vital statistics featuring the most commonly requested facts and figures pertaining to the university, is now available. Read More

An unknown person(s) entered the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house and stole two laptop computers. Read More

[View the story "The Vanderbilt campus, showing its gold" on Storify]… Read More

Wear your best, ugliest holiday sweater and enjoy a free latte every Friday in December. Read More

Take the MTA bus or the Music City Star train for free all day on Black Friday. Read More

Will a definitive same-sex marriage lawsuit wind up in the Supreme Court? Also, finding what goes "boom" might get safer; and it’s time to slow down and smell the roses, Vandy-style. Watch these stories and more in VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Read More

Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes—skills the students have already mastered before setting foot in the kindergarten classroom, new research finds. Read More

A common reading disorder goes undiagnosed until it becomes problematic, according to the results of five years of study by researchers at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College in collaboration with the Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Results of the study were recently published online by the National Institutes of Health. Read More

Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly achievements more than 30 years later, according to results from a Vanderbilt University longitudinal study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Read More

Matthew Springer In recent years, policymakers concerned with how to compensate teachers have increasingly sought to tie teacher pay to student outcomes. Market-minded education reformers have also begun to experiment by offering incentives to teachers who demonstrably add value to students’ education. But how effective are such programs? Does altering… Read More

We'd like to hear from you, Vanderbilt students, faculty, staff and friends – what are you thankful for in 2013? Read More