Year: 2016

Easing traffic congestion and improving the public transportation system are critical issues for the city, and the Vanderbilt community has the opportunity to interact with transit officials on those topics during an April 14 Food For Thought lunch conversation. Read More

An extraordinary collection of works by and about Paul Verlaine, one of France's most celebrated poets of the late 19th century, has been acquired by Vanderbilt University's W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and French Studies. Read More

The welcome of new head men's basketball coach Bryce Drew to campus is one of our favorite #vandygram photos of the week. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will host a town hall meeting for faculty, students and staff on Friday, April 15. Read More

Beth Bachmann, a Vanderbilt writer-in-residence who has published two poetry collections, has been selected from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants for a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Read More

Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Beth Fortune issues the university's official statement following the conviction of Cory Batey in the 2013 rape of a fellow student. Read More

Mimi Baird had not seen or heard from her father since the Harvard-trained physician, tormented by severe bipolar disease, walked away from his family when she was 5 years old. Baird will discuss her memoir on the topic April 19 at the Adventure Science Center. Read More

Pamela F. Cipriano, president of the American Nurse Association, was the guest of honor at a reception hosted by the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing on April 5. Read More

100 chapter leaders and Reunion chairs came together for the 2016 Reunion Kickoff and Chapter Leadership Conference Read More

Former congressman Bob Inglis will speak April 12 at Vanderbilt Law School about business and climate change. Read More

Northwestern University economist and industrial organization expert Robert Porter will deliver a talk titled “Empirical Analysis and Auction Design” as part of the Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Steine Lecture Series. Read More

The Nashville Elementary School Debate Consortium takes place April 9 at J.E. Moss Elementary School in Antioch. Read More

The Fulbright Research Grant program supports graduate students interested in going abroad to conduct research related to their degree programs. Read More

An estimated 5 billion people — two-thirds of the world’s population — do not have access to surgery because of a lack of facilities, money and trained surgeons and anesthesiologists. Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism and the Peabody Office of Professional and Graduate Education present "Obesity Intervention and Prevention: It Takes a Village" April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. Read More

The Project Safe Center for Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response is sponsoring five events in April for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Read More

Mayor Megan Barry and Metro Public Works are reaching out to the Vanderbilt community and the Nashville public for input about Metro's Strategic Plan for Sidewalks and Bikeways, also known as "WalknBike." Read More

Vanderbilt hired Bryce Drew as its new head men's basketball coach April 6. Watch Drew's first day on the job. Read More

Some local day care centers are reporting incidents of hand, foot and mouth disease. Learn more about this viral illness, which blossoms in the spring causing fever, fussiness and ulcers. Read More

Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, presents "Interfaith Leadership: Engaging Faith and Philosophical Diversity in the 21st Century" as part of the Chaplain's Speaker Series April 12 in Benton Chapel. Read More