Month: April 2015

Isabel Gauthier, David K. Wilson Professor of Psychology, is a recipient of the 2015 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. These annual awards recognize one faculty member from each SEC university who has excelled in teaching, research and scholarship. Read More

Peabody faculty and graduate students will present on the topics of value-added, teacher effectiveness, minorities in STEM, connected learning, disabilities and more. Read More

Steve Wernke, assistant professor of anthropology, has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the prototyping of two new electronic resources for collecting and analyzing geospatial data related to the colonization of Peru. Read More

A shooting in South Carolina illustrates how recording technology is changing the fallout of some police-suspect interactions. Read More

The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center invites the Vanderbilt and Nashville communities to discover what moves them during the VRWC’s first open house weekend, May 8-10. Read More

Media Note: Vanderbilt has a 24/7 TV and radio studio. The studio is free for Vanderbilt experts, other than reserving fiber time. More information » Bruce Oppenheimer U.S. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee is working to protect congressional prerogative on any nuclear agreement with Iran while avoiding the… Read More

After spending four years absorbing the style and personality of Nashville while attending Vanderbilt, Timo Weiland, BS’06, is back as one of the headliners for Nashville Fashion Week. The Tennessean profiles Timo’s journey from Vanderbilt to his highly decorated career in fashion as co-founder of the Timo Weiland brand. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers designed micelle “packets” to selectively deliver anti-cancer drugs to breast cancer cells. Read More

Dyer will celebrate a quarter-century of groundbreaking science and images with an open house and two lectures by Hubble Space Telescope project scientist and Vanderbilt astrophysicist C.R. O'Dell. Read More

It’s a story of love and determination and a debilitating lifelong disorder. A son’s rare genetic disease has led his mom to become a scientist at Vanderbilt University. Watch this VUCast Extra and a mom’s race against time. Read More

Get an additional 50 percent off already marked down clearance items at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt April 9-11, while supplies last. Read More

If you’re ready to get in shape and shed a few pounds before summer, consider giving Weight Watchers at work a try. Read More

Nashville Chalk Fest, a free two-day street festival benefiting the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, is scheduled for April 11-12. The event will close several streets in Hillsboro Village from Friday, April 10, at 9 a.m. through Sunday, April 12, at midnight. Read More

On the eve of the demolition of the plant’s iconic smokestack, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will speak at a celebration of the conversion on Thursday, April 9, at 4:10 p.m. Read More

Minutes from the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate’s Feb. 5 meeting are now available online on the Faculty Senate website. Read More

Television viewers in Nashville will soon witness the first serious political ad war for the top Metro job, says Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer. Read More

Vanderbilt graduate students demonstrated that they can summarize their 80,000-word theses in less than three minutes using terms that members of the public can understand during this year's Three-Minute Thesis Competition. Read More

California's aggressive incentive program for installing rooftop solar-electric systems has not been as effective as generally believed according to a new analysis. Read More

Chris Clark, Regius Professor of History, Cambridge University, presented the annual Byrn Lecture, “How Europe Went to War in 1914. The Origins Debate Revisited,” on April 8, 2015. Read More

Watch video of “College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education” presented by Jeffery Selingo on April 7, 2015. Author, columnist and leading authority on higher education Jeffrey Selingo is the inaugural speaker for… Read More