Year: 2015

SustainVU, the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach and Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science are subgrant recipients of a $91,000, two-year EPA grant to Nashville’s Urban Green Lab to deliver hands-on science and sustainability education to Nashville middle- and high-schoolers. Read More

Watch video of the most recent presentation in the Food for Thought lunchtime series which took place on October 13. During our first Food for Thought program the panel presented a brief overview of the exhibition’s highlights. The program focused on dispelling misunderstandings about Islam by introducing the audience to… Read More

Being a Vanderbilt employee has its privileges. Check out this diverse sampling of "extras" available to staff and faculty each day. Read More

Recycling on campus increased by 25 percent from 2013 to 2014 and now totals 7.4 million pounds of materials—the same weight as 10 fully loaded Boeing 747s. Read More

A new study will examine how and why women persist in faculty engineering positions despite barriers to success in the context of race, class and gender. Read More

A new study finds that a cognitive-behavioral prevention program yielded sustained positive effects for youth at risk for depression. Read More

Nine months after arriving as the new associate director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center and eight days after the pediatric liver transplant program at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt was launched, surgeon Douglas Hanto transplanted a new liver into 10-year-old Aubree Vanzant. Read More

Fortunately for both Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering and the victims of natural disasters, Hiba Baroud found a way to combine her risk analysis and statistics skills, her love of teaching and her passion for helping people in need. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Greek community and Student Athletic Advisory Committee will host the annual Trick-or-Treat with Greeks and Student Athletes from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30. Read More

Street harassment is sexual harassment that occurs in public spaces. This type of harassment happens all over the world and is commonly experienced by women, gender nonconforming people, and/or LGBT-identified people. Read More

On Oct. 12, the Vanderbilt University Police Department was notified by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department of a robbery that occurred in the early evening off campus near Centennial Park and the intersection of 25th Avenue North and Brandau Place. Read More

Health plan costs may have a big impact on the plan option you choose during Open Enrollment. One way to minimize your costs is to use Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network providers. Read More

Open Enrollment, your annual opportunity to update or choose the benefit options that best meet your and your family’s needs, starts Wednesday, Oct. 14. Read More

On Oct. 15, Fidelity will send the government-required retirement plan participant fee disclosure to employees who are eligible to participate in the Vanderbilt University 403(b) Retirement Plan. Read More

Commodore Nation stepped up to help our friends in the SEC impacted by the historic flooding in South Carolina. Read the social media reaction to Vanderbilt's water donation, and see more of our favorite #vandygram photos of the week. Read More

Friday, October 9, 2015 in Benton Chapel A Young Black Woman Shimmy & Shakes a Flagpole and Finally Brings the Confederate Flag Down After One Hundred Years: Thoughts on Climbing, Not Waiting on the Calvary, Faith, and Manners, in the Contemporary South Poet Nikky Finney helped start the Affrilachian Writers… Read More

An office/living room designed by Havenly that can be used for working or entertaining. (Julia Brenner/COURTESY OF HAVENLY) The Washington Post featured Havenly, co-founded by Emily Motayed, BA’10, and her sister Lee Mayer in the article “Two companies target millennials with quicker, more affordable design help.” Havenly… Read More

Five years after visiting Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, 20/20 Research CEO Jim Bryson, MBA’85, opened a school in Haiti this week, serving 31 kindergarten students. The school is near Cabaret, about 16 miles from Port-au-Prince, and the students are from nearby villages. Read More

Read the social media reaction to the Athletics’ drive to bring water and generators to those impacted by the South Caroline flood. Read More

Animal Research Information Enterprise System (ARIES), a new online system for submitting animal research protocols, will be launched at Vanderbilt University on Oct. 12. Read More