Month: November 2016

Boston Red Sox pitcher and former Vanderbilt University student-athlete David Price will join Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Athletics Director and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs David Williams and Coach Tim Corbin Friday, Nov. 18 at 1:30 p.m. to announce a significant gift to the Vanderbilt Baseball Facilities project. Read More

International Education Week is an annual initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and to attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn and exchange experiences in the United States. Read More

It’s Homecoming Week and all of Vanderbilt is busy preparing for the weekend’s events. One of the main draws is the football game against Tennessee State University. But it’s more than just a three hour athletic event with all of the coordination takes place, especially from the police department. However,… Read More

Health care has been relatively late to the cybersecurity game and is now behind the curve in addressing such threats, new research by Owen Graduate School of Management Dean M. Eric Johnson finds. Read More

Watch prominent music writers reflect on Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Presley. Read More

The temptation to quickly arrange a summit between President-elect Trump and Vladimir Putin of Russian should be avoided, says Tom Schwartz of Vanderbilt. Read More

German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov perform the entire "Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano" Nov. 15-17 in Blair’s Steve & Judy Turner Recital Hall. Read More

Jeff Rothschild, vice chairman-elect of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust and Facebook's first vice president for infrastructure software, took the stage Friday night as the opening keynote speaker for the third annual VandyHacks. Read More

The upcoming Thanksgiving holiday is the first to take place since VU’s enhanced PTO program took effect. Staff taking these days off should record the time as “Holiday,” not PTO. Read More

What is TEDx? In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxVanderbiltUniversity, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxVanderbiltUniversity event,… Read More

Vanderbilt basketball senior Luke Kornet sits down with the 'Commodore Insider Podcast' to discuss Men's Basketball's upcoming season. Read More

Vanderbilt political scientists weighed in on the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election, and Professor James Crowe Jr. and a team of scientists made a breakthrough in the fight against the Zika virus. Read a selection of Vanderbilt news stories for the week of Nov. 7. Read More

Vanderbilt University Printing Services has expanded its in-house signage and wide-format graphics capabilities. Printing Services can now produce outdoor banners, wallpaper and graphics, static clings, floor graphics, vehicle wraps, fabrics and textiles, and much more. Read More

Notre Dame's Joan F. Brennecke, a highly recognized researcher and prolific writer dedicated to creating a better environment, will deliver the fall 2016 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture. Read More

Vanderbilt’s 2016 Holiday Gift Giveaway is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 9, at Langford Auditorium. Grab a turkey, tofurkey or Vanderbilt oven mitt! Read More

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh who created a model for combating poverty through microlending, Wednesday was awarded the George Washington University President’s Medal, the highest honor the university’s president can bestow. Fortune magazine named Dr. Yunus “one of the greatest entrepreneurs of… Read More

Former Vanderbilt Baseball player Carter Hawkins, BS’07, has been promoted to assistant general manager for the Cleveland Indians. He had served as the team’s director of baseball operations for the past two years. Hawkins was catcher at Vanderbilt and a regular on the SEC Academic Honor Roll. He appeared in… Read More

Kat Baker, associate director of Vanderbilt's Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions, will be featured in the next installment of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's Work-Life Workshops. Baker will discuss "Developing Moral Leadership" on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Sustainability and Environmental Management Office is seeking input on where additional outdoor recycling containers should be located across campus. Read More

Trainer Betsy Post-Garza, customer success manager for Ex Libris-ProQuest Learning Solutions, will return to the Vanderbilt campus Nov. 15 and 16 to provide instruction and support for using SIPX to manage and streamline the copyright clearance process with Blackboard and coursepacks. Read More