Year: 2016

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

This event brings Arjun Sethi to Flynn Auditorium to discuss the realities of police brutality, the system of policing, the criminal justice system, and the growth of the Black Lives Matter Movement in response to these realities. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Writer-in-residence Alice Randall gathered in Langford Auditorium Wednesday evening to discuss Alexander Hamilton's influence on contemporary American politics, but it was the previous day’s momentous presidential election that pervaded the conversation. Daveed Diggs, a Tony winner for the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton," participated in a separate discussion as part of the event. Read More

Students, faculty, staff, and business and community members filled the Wond'ry Nov. 9 at an open house featuring tours, makerspace demonstrations and more. See a video of the event. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty and staff are invited to attend 'Open Dore On Location' with Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente on Nov. 15. Read More

A Department of Art exhibition examining the role of art therapy in the recovery process of patients being treated for mental disorders has been curated by alumna Lindsey Lybrand. Read More

Two years ago, Laura and Justin Burney faced the unthinkable: almost losing their infant daughter, Brooklyn. Read More

When patient appointments at The Vanderbilt Clinic (TVC) weren’t beginning on time, everyone thought they knew the reason. Either patients weren’t getting checked in on time or physicians were delayed, or maybe both issues were contributing to the problem. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have established a new measure of resilience to cognitive impairment in people with asymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. Read More

Since July, investigators in the Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center have been awarded research grants totaling $5 million. Read More

Research achievement was recognized recently during last week’s Diabetes Day at the Student Life Center. Read More