Year: 2014

The weather is perfect for taking your exercise outside or having a stroll through the many trails around Vanderbilt. Join Brad Awalt from Health Plus for a walking tour of the trails and to learn more about Start!. Read More

Certified nurse midwife Margaret Buxton will present “Preparing for Labor and Delivery” from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, July 17, in Light Hall, Room 407.  … Read More

A Vanderbilt researcher says the EPA is being too expansive in how it measures carbon dioxide emissions. Read More

Simple heat treatments may give the frog immune system a boost and help it fight off a deadly fungal pathogen, according to a new study published July 10 in the journal Nature. Read More

Peabody is peeling away the hyperbole and doom-saying on the Common Core debate. Read More

Rachel Moser is fulfilling her passion for service through her nonprofit organization, The Uplifting Project. Read More

2014 Commencement (Vanderbilt) Twenty retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony May 9, when the university honored them for their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Among the recipients were Daniel… Read More

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Jessica Harthcock was paralyzed in a diving accident at age 17. She never gave up, even when doctors said she'd never walk again. Read More

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Implementation of Common Core has been much more difficult than anyone imagined, leaving students caught in a political tug of war. Peabody faculty weigh in on the Common Core dilemma. Read More

There are few programs in place to nurture the intellectually precocious child. Is there a cost to society for ignoring the gifted? Read More

Vanderbilt history professor Moses Ochonu can comment about the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Read More

Fresh off of winning a national championship, Vanderbilt head baseball coach Tim Corbin will meet fans and sign autographs from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt’s waste and recycling vendor, Waste Management, has launched a new fleet of natural gas-powered trash collection vehicles that will reduce both air and noise pollution on campus. Read More

Professor of Physics Thomas Weiler has been awarded a prestigious Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. Read More

It all started with a faint glow. It was November 1895, and the German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen was experimenting with an early cathode ray tube—a vacuum tube with a contained electric current. During his experiments he noticed an odd fluorescence in crystals on a nearby table. Surprisingly, the glow continued even… Read More

Construction is underway on the new Engineering and Science Building adjacent to Olin Hall. Read More

Listening with charity is central to the mission of the New Jersey-based Reeves Foundation. Read More

(iStock) In 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives proclaimed July as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, aiming to improve access to mental health treatment and services for multicultural communities through increased public awareness. Some minority groups may feel self-conscious or unsure about using mental health… Read More