Year: 2016

Steven Wernke, associate professor of anthropology, will team up with Akira Saito, an anthropologist with Japan's renowned Museum of Ethnology, to promote scholarly exchange on a significant but little-studied chapter in colonial South American history. Read More

Summer memberships to the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center will go on sale beginning April 15. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Humphrey Fellows will travel to east Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains for the Festival of Nations. Read More

An astrophysicist and an aerospace engineer who are members of the team developing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018 – will give a free public lecture March 31. Read More

When children have a choice of how they interact with educators, they may learn more efficiently. Read More

In the latest VUCast: Learn what Neanderthal genes are doing to you, where you can find a three-year eclipse, and what's inside an ancient Wari empire beer. Watch now! Read More

Graduate students devise a unique study to teach an aspiring pizza chef with autism to follow recipes. Read More

Vivé Griffith says her Vanderbilt years tie directly to her present leadership of the Austin, Texas-based Free Minds Project, which offers under-resourced adults a free, yearlong, college-level course in subjects ranging from history to Shakespeare, along with free books, child care and dinners. Its mission is to give adults who… Read More

Jim Emison wants answers. A man was killed in a brutal racial incident in 1940, and his case was forgotten. The murdered man, Elbert Williams, was a member of the NAACP who organized meetings of African Americans in West Tennessee’s Haywood County. He was found in a river and buried… Read More

Dr. André Churchwell, senior associate dean for diversity affairs at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, will share his personal insights on the role of art in all of its creative forms and its relationship to applied physics in the solution of humankind’s medical woes when he delivers the next installment of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series April 11. Read More

Read the statement from Vanderbilt Athletics Director David Williams on former men's head basketball coach Kevin Stallings. Read More

Read Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos' statement regarding the deaths of Vanderbilt alumni Justin and Stephanie Shults as the result of a March 22 terrorist bombing in Brussels, Belgium. Read More

Vanderbilt University has received a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a new Center for Digital Humanities. The trans-institutional initiative will further Vanderbilt’s commitment to becoming a national hub of innovative digital humanities scholarship. Read More

Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos issued the following statement after learning of the deaths of Vanderbilt alumni Justin and Stephanie Shults as a result of a terrorist bombing in Brussels, Belgium March 22: We are saddened to learn that the deaths of Vanderbilt alumni Justin and Stephanie Shults have… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Vanderbilt students welcomed the newest class of Commodores in our favorite #vandygram image of the week. See more on the Get Social website. Read More

Vanderbilt will conduct a test of its AlertVU emergency notification system on Wednesday, March 30, at 2 p.m. The test is rescheduled from last week, when the threat of severe weather on March 24 necessitated its postponement. AlertVU sends emergency messages in the event of an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community. Read More

Historian D. Fairchild Ruggles will deliver two lectures on the Vanderbilt campus related to her expertise on Islamic gardens and landscapes. Read More

Sarratt Art Studios has planned a full lineup of exciting studio art programs and classes for all ages this summer. Read More

Vanderbilt and Health Plus will celebrate National Walking Day with a 20-minute group walk April 6, concluding with light snacks and a chance to win prizes. Read More

Dr. Annabelle de St. Maurice rapidly is ascending to the cutting edge of addressing the practical problems of world-impacting diseases. After earning her master’s degree in public health at Vanderbilt, in July 2015 she began work in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an Epidemic… Read More