Year: 2015

A female student reported to a Campus Security Authority that on Oct. 3 she was sexually assaulted by a male student acquaintance. Read More

Once a math and science prodigy, Ben Munyan can now be found in his Owen Graduate School of Management office writing computer code mapping U.S. Treasury data to bank and investor activity. Read More

When Anna Marie Bohmann was growing up in Minneapolis, she enjoyed school in general—and math in particular—but had no idea that making a career in mathematics was even possible. Read More

Understanding how state school systems can best use teacher evaluation data to drive instructional improvement is the focus of a new Vanderbilt study. Read More

Watch video of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s class “Legal and Policy Issues in Modern Warfare” October 7th, 2015 with Michael Newton. Read More

Watch video of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s class on “Who Was Nelson Mandela?” October 7th, 2015 with Clive Mentzel. Read More

An “explosive presentation” on how the acts of radically democratizing access to the tools, knowledge and community needed to create things has fundamentally and irrevocably destroyed the barriers to innovation. Read More

Structural and molecular details of an anti-fungal target's interaction with inhibitors suggest ways to design better treatments for fungal infections. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a live Twitter question-and-answer session about the college admissions process on Tuesday, Oct. 13, featuring John Gaines, director of Vanderbilt's Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Read More

Television viewers in Middle Tennessee will begin to see new messages from Vanderbilt University Medical Center this week that build upon the “Promise of Discovery” theme to describe the Medical Center's work and mission. Read More

Join the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center‘s group fitness coordinator, Lori Cowan, as she leads a 30-minute walk around campus each Wednesday, now through Nov. 11. Read More

Vanderbilt philosopher John Lachs will speak and sign copies of his latest book Oct. 22 at Parnassus Books in Nashville. Read More

More than half of hospitalizations due to influenza pneumonia could be prevented by influenza vaccination, according to a study led by investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read More

Gregory Benford, a physicist at UC-Irvine and a noted science fiction author, is giving a free public lecture titled "Our Next Century in Space" that will describe steps that could see the opening of the solar system to productive use and colonization. Read More

The history of Antarctic exploration and the role that the coldest continent on Earth plays in global earth systems will be discussed at a Williamson County Public Library talk by Vanderbilt researcher Dan Morgan Oct. 9. Read More

A documentary film about the women’s liberation movement of the late 1960s, featuring archival footage and interviews, will have its Nashville premiere at Vanderbilt University on Monday, Oct. 19. Read More

Special education professor Andrea Capizzi spoke to Tennessee administrative law judges about inclusive education. Read More

Years of interdisciplinary research by Ted Fischer, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and more than a dozen Vanderbilt students from across the university went into the development of Mani+. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt seniors won first place at the three-day VandyHacks event held Oct. 2-4 at Sarratt Student Center. The invention marathon attracted 250 participants from Vanderbilt, Purdue, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a number of other mostly Southeastern schools. Read More

The glutamine transporter protein appears to contribute to the survival of lung cancer cells, suggesting it may be a useful diagnostic biomarker and target for therapies. Read More