Year: 2014

William “Billy” Adair, a teacher, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and backbone of the jazz program at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, has died. He was 66. Read More

David Wasinger, JD’88, had been the sole partner at a five-attorney firm in St. Louis, Mo. that was mostly focused on local business litigation and had never represented a whistleblower. But that changed in January 2012 when an old business acquaintance turned to him when he was ready to go… Read More

The mechanical forces generated by the rhythmic expansion and contraction of cardiac muscle cells play an active role in the initial stage of heart valve formation. Read More

The epidemic of children living in poverty is the topic of a mini-conference hosted by the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development March 11. Read More

(Vanderbilt University) March is the second month of the Health Plus Count on Your Heart Program. During the month, participate in the Make a Small Change Challenge and commit to making one small change each week. Choose from simple actions that will help you get active, eat better and… Read More

The Green Dot at Vanderbilt Committee is collaborating with the YWCA to provide service opportunities to the Vanderbilt campus community from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20. Service opportunities include organizing the YWCA’s donation facility and/or lending a hand in the YWCA kitchen.  Afterward, volunteers are invited to join… Read More

(Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt employees who want to see the Commodore football team in action this fall have additional incentive to purchase their tickets early. Those who purchase tickets prior to April 13 will receive special “early bird” pricing for the 2014 season, which features eight home games, including matchups… Read More

A screening of the film Brother Outsider, Safe Zone training and a discussion of the collected writings of Bayard Rustin are included in LGBTQI Life’s celebration of Ally Days Feb. 19-28. Read More

(John Russell/Vanderbilt) Minutes from the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate’s Nov. 7 meeting are now available online on the Faculty Senate website. At the Nov. 7 meeting, senators Kathryn Anderson, Mark Cannon, Claire Smrekar and Myrna Wooders submitted a… Read More

Matt Rubinger, at age 25, is director of luxury accessories for Heritage Auctions, an international auction house. Three years after graduting from  Vanderbilt University in 2010, Rubinger made $9 million for his company, according to Forbes. Rubinger made his career in sales after spending his high school and college years… Read More

Learning and memory, integrative medicine and the Salem witch hunts are a sampling of the spring 2014 class offerings available through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Premature babies who receive an interventional therapy combining their mother’s voice and a pacifier-activated music player learn to eat more efficiently and have their feeding tubes removed sooner than other preemies, according to a Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt study published today in… Read More

The School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt celebrated its title of “greenest group on campus” at the Vanderbilt vs. Texas A&M basketball game Feb. 15. Read More

The first of three faculty town hall meetings to update and engage Vanderbilt’s faculty on the four foundational areas driving the strategic planning process is scheduled for Feb. 27. Read More

Severe Weather Awareness Week in Tennessee, Feb. 16-22, is a good time to revisit what to do in the event severe weather threatens the Vanderbilt community. Read More

Internationally renowned artist Charles Long will lecture on his work as part of StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series 2013-14. Read More

"Art, Advocacy and Action," a symposium on immigration reform, will be co-presented by Vanderbilt University Divinity School and the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions Feb. 20-21. Read More

Team Music City, an interdisciplinary group from Vanderbilt, MTSU and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville, has been selected to compete in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon 2015, challenging students to design and build a functioning, energy-efficient, solar-powered house. Read More

Learn healthy ways to cope with stress in today’s fast-paced world at a Pressure Relief Network class hosted by Health Plus on Feb. 26. Read More

Learn about heart-healthy food choices, try tasty samples and take home a recipe. Read More