Year: 2015

"Re-Visioning Justice in America," an April 17-19 public conference on prison reform sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School's Cal Turner Program, will feature keynote talks by Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson and Howard Zehr. Read More

One of the commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission will speak publicly March 27 at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Deborah L. Birx will give an update on Friday, March 13, at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a government-funded program that over the past 12 years has had a dramatic impact on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Read More

Jonn Kim, founder and CEO of Geeks and Nerds Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama, will deliver the School of Engineering’s spring 2015 Chambers Family Entrepreneurial Lecture March 16. Read More

Vanderbilt will celebrate National Walking Day 2015 on Wednesday, April 1, from noon to 12:45 p.m. with a 20-minute group walk starting at Eskind Biomedical Library and ending at Library Lawn. Read More

Vanderbilt and the Waters Centers of Innovation Program are sponsoring a free symposium titled "Integrated 'Omics in Translational Medicine" on March 23. It is open to all scientists interested in the subject. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing have again been ranked among the nation’s elite “Best Graduate Schools” by U.S. News and World Report magazine. Read More

Vanderbilt's School of Nursing and Peabody College of education and human development fared well in this year's "U.S. News & World Report" rankings. Read More

Vanderbilt University researchers took a significant step toward answering longstanding questions about the origins of consciousness with a recent discovery of global changes in how brain areas communicate with one another during awareness. Read More

Watch video of researchers from Vanderbilt Peabody College explore what’s missing from debate on standards and testing. Read More

The March 12 Goldberg Lecture will be delivered by Katherine Rinne, an urban designer and historian who has written an award-winning book on water infrastructure in 16th-century Rome. Read More

The new Callie House Research Center for the Study of Black Cultures and Politics, named for a former slave who led a group for reparations, will be celebrated March 12 with the inaugural lecture by Mary Frances Berry. Read More

Vanderbilt’s new retirement plan structure offers best-in-class funds that were carefully selected and will be continuously monitored by Vanderbilt’s Retirement Plan Oversight Committee. Read More

Employees can earn up to $1,500 through the Diagnostic Referral Bonus Program now through June 30. Read More

Mother Nature didn’t seem to notice that we were on Spring Break this week. Another snowfall, another round of beautiful campus photos. See more on the Get Social website, and share your campus photos by tagging them #vandygram. Photo by @morganl82  … Read More

After building a nuclear fusion reactor in his basement at 17, Thiago Olson, BE’11, is now the founding CEO of Stratus, which is ready to launch a smart credit card that just might change your purchasing habits. Read More

Months of cold and sometimes icy and snowy weather can take a toll on our skin—but a Vanderbilt dermatologist says there are ways to protect it from the ravages of a lingering winter. Read More

The March 10 test of AlertVU, Vanderbilt University’s emergency mass notification system, has been rescheduled for the fall 2015 semester. But you can update your point-of-contact settings in the AlertVU system now. Read More

"Memento Mori: Looking at Death in Art and Illustration," opening March 12 at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, was curated using an interdisciplinary approach to provoke thought about the role of death and mourning in society from the 16th century to the present. Read More

National rankings of hospitals are more confusing than helpful when you compare them to one another, according to a new study. Read More