Year: 2014

Jim Shepherd oversees earthquake repairs at the historic Washington National Cathedral. Read More

Vanderbilt scientists have discovered a series of small molecules that may help unlock the mystery of schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that can cause disabling hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thinking. Read More

Academic studies are one thing—but how is Vanderbilt promoting sustainability in its own operations? Perhaps most visibly with a new solar-powered electric-vehicle charging station on 21st Avenue, a compost pile on Wedgewood Avenue, and nearly a dozen gorgeous, LEED-certified green buildings. Here are a few others you might not notice… Read More

Leslie Labruto Leslie Labruto’s career illustrates how a young civil environmental engineer can accommodate both her heart’s leaning and her tangible talents. Before she graduated from the School of Engineering with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 2011, Labruto’s studies and service work had… Read More

From corporate boardrooms to statehouse chambers to the halls of academe, sustainability is one of this century’s biggest challenges. Read More

Willie Geist is a natural on camera because he comes by it honestly. His father, Bill, is a longtime Emmy Award-winning correspondent for CBS News, and some of the younger Geist’s earliest memories have to do with his dad’s profession. Read More

You could find a somber study carrel or park your posterior in your dorm room when duty calls. But the sun is out for a change, a mockingbird is trilling love songs on Magnolia Lawn, and over in the Baseball Glove Lounge, generations of students before you have already broken in those comfy-kitschy chairs. Read More

Jon Meacham, executive editor and executive vice president at Random House and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, joined the Vanderbilt faculty last summer with a three-year appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor. Read More

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Ralph C. Wood, professor of theology and literature at Baylor University and editor-at-large for Christian Century Magazine will discuss “Fyodor Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor and Christ Pantocrator” March 11 in Benton Chapel. Read More

The method of selecting state appellate court judges will be discussed March 21 at a forum at Vanderbilt Law School which is free and open to the public. Read More

In celebration of 15 years of partnership, the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance invites proposals for activities that promote ongoing, mutually beneficial, health-oriented research partnerships between community organizations and academic researchers. Read More

The Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization’s New Ventures Team, in partnership with LaunchTennessee, will host an SBIR/STTR workshop on Tuesday, April 15, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Sarratt Student Center, rooms 216-220. The purpose of the event is to create awareness among faculty and students… Read More

InvisionHeart, LLC, a startup based on a wireless ECG system developed at Vanderbilt, has been selected as one of 10 startups nationwide to participate in Google's inaugural Demo Day. Read More

Eminent theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson will give a free public lecture, "Four Revolutions and More to Come," on Thursday, March 27, at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering professors Jules White and Doug Schmidt, and University of Illinois professor Mani Golparvar-Fard, are guest editors of the February issue of "Proceedings of the IEEE," the most highly-cited general interest journal in electrical engineering and computer science. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Department of Sociology celebrated its 80th anniversary Feb. 17 and 18 with visits from a civil rights lawyer and historian, and two prominent sociologists. Read More

Health Plus and the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center present Vandy Cooks with Jamie Pope on Friday, March 14. Read More

Vanderbilt staff and faculty are eligible for a discount on tickets to select performances of Pink Martini and The von Trapps, and "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" at TPAC. Read More

Innovation Deficit: The widening gap between the actual level of government funding for research and higher education and what the investment needs to be if the United States is to remain the world's innovation leader. Read More