Year: 2016

Many of Donald Trump’s supporters share a view of the world as a chaotic, threatening place that is changing too rapidly, says a political scientist at Vanderbilt University, and this authoritarian outlook may be what’s drawing them to the strong rhetoric of Trump. Read More

The Vanderbilt community had the opportunity to interact with regional transit officials on efforts to ease traffic congestion and improve public transportation during a discussion April 14 at Vanderbilt’s Student Life Center. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos was the keynote speaker during Fisk University's Honors Convocation April 7 in Fisk Memorial Chapel. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers show that two factors promote the repair of myelin, the nerve cell covering that deteriorates in diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Read More

Science educator, TV personality and author Bill Nye signed his latest book, "Unstoppable," at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt March 31. The event drew nearly 400 science enthusiasts, many of them teachers from across the country in Nashville for the National Science Teachers Association’s annual conference. Read More

Antonio Villaseñor-Marchal, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology, has won this year’s Native American Graduate Archaeology Scholarship from the Society of American Archaeology. Read More

An Orange Alert for phone system failure at VUMC is in effect. Identified areas with issues include: One Hundred Oaks, remote clinics, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Critical Care Tower and Medical Center East. Phones with prefixes 936- and 875- are affected and callers may receive a busy… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will host a roundtable May 2 exploring the U.S. Supreme Court’s current vacancy and the controversy surrounding the nomination of a new justice. Fox News' Andrew Napolitano, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, and Vanderbilt's Jon Meacham and Audrey Anderson will participate in the discussion beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Vanderbilt's first-ever Giving Day is this week. Join your fellow faculty and staff on Thursday, April 21, in celebrating all things gold by making a gift and spreading the word about this new golden tradition. #give4thegold Read More

On April 16, a nonaffiliated guest on campus was stopped by another person near the Sarratt Student Center and asked if he had a ticket to the concert on Alumni Lawn. When the guest replied yes, the other person punched him in the face and took the tickets from his hand. Read More

April 16, 2016, 1:31 a.m.: Vanderbilt Police have searched The Ingram Commons, and the robbery suspects are believed to have left the area. You can resume normal activities. Please report suspicious activity to Vanderbilt Police at 615-322-2745. April 16, 2016, 1:05 a.m.: Vanderbilt Police are on the scene at The Ingram… Read More

This photo of the dogwoods near Benson Hall is among our favorite #vandygram images of the week. Read More

Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center will jointly host the 2016 Employee Appreciation Picnic May 13 and 17, with off-campus deliveries scheduled for May 12 and 13. Read More

A future generation of atomically thin optoelectronics devices, including transistors, photodetectors and solar cells, is a step closer because of an advance in the art of epitaxy made by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with an assist from a pair of Vanderbilt physicists. Read More

Vanderbilt's Marc Hetherington will be awarded the Alexander L. George Book Award at the July meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology. Read More

Mark Wait, the Martha Rivers Ingram Dean of the Blair School of Music, writes, "Trends in classical music, as in any other field, will come and go, but serious music is present in all ages, and in all places – including right now in Nashville." Read More

The Center for Teaching announces information for Blackboard users that includes upcoming demos by course management vendors, changes to the course availability and deletion policy, and a system upgrade. Read More

Standardizing hospital care policies across institutions for infants diagnosed with drug withdrawal symptoms at birth reduces their length of treatment and hospitalization, according to new research led by Vermont Oxford Network, Vanderbilt and the University of Michigan Health System. Read More

Vanderbilt Police are investigating an attempted robbery near 25th Avenue South and Jess Neely. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered details about the mechanism of an important DNA repair protein that maintains genome stability. Read More