Year: 2017

Psychology professor Bruce Compas has received a grant to develop an online stress management program for kids with cancer. Read More

  LifeFlight’s mobile emergency command and communications bus will be on the scene at the CMA Music Festival as the official communications center. As Nashville welcomes visitors from around the world to the CMA Music Festival this week, Vanderbilt LifeFlight officials are urging fans to take necessary precautions… Read More

Head Men's Golf Coach Scott Limbaugh has been honored with the GCAA's Dave Williams Award presented by Golf Pride Grips, an award given to the Division I Men's Golf Head Coach of the Year. Read More

Stellar work by Matt Ruppenthal and Will Toffey led Vanderbilt Baseball to shut out No. 21 Clemson 8-0 and claim the Clemson Regional on June 5 at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. Read More

Last month a group of Vanderbilt student-athletes ventured to Jamaica on a service trip to deliver shoes and other supplies to local children as part of Soles4Souls. The Commodores visited a number of local schools and sites during their weeklong visit. Read More

The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion presents “iNCLUSIVE,” a biweekly blast of diverse news and events from across campus. Read More

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor in Biological Sciences Antonis Rokas has been selected as a finalist for the $250,000 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Read More

A student-curated exhibition of works by artist Morris Davidson, who was passionate about abstract painting, can be seen at the Fine Arts Gallery through Sept. 17. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery presents "American Artists and the Legacy of the Grand Tour, 1880–1960," opening June 15. Read More

Astronomers at Vanderbilt and Ohio State have discovered a planet like Jupiter zipping around its host star every day, boiling at temperatures hotter than most stars with a giant cometary tail. Read More

An anonymous $10 million gift to the College Halls program continues the momentum that is transforming the undergraduate experience at Vanderbilt University through living–learning communities. Read More

University News and Communications publishes "VUToday," a compilation of Vanderbilt mentions in the media, each weekday. Read a selection of Vanderbilt news stories for the week of May 29. Read More

The annual Vanderbilt Family Night with the Nashville Symphony will be at the Musicians Corner in the southwest area of Centennial Park on Thursday, June 8. Festivities begin at 5 p.m., and the symphony's performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Read More

Bayesian modeling can include hundreds of data points and present a range of potential events and options for dealing with them. Read More

The Office of the Chancellor hosted “Food from Inside the Travel Ban,” a fundraiser for TN Justice for Our Neighbors, June 1 at the Wyatt Center Rotunda. The event featured food inspired by Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Iran and Somalia. Read More

Researchers are studying how commerce and flood control on inland waterways and the residents along them must change. Read More

Analysis suggests that climate change had a significant impact on megafauna diets and was a primary factor in their extinction. Read More

An island off the nation's coast demonstrates land use mismanagement can be far more damaging than rising sea levels. Read More

Vanderbilt University law and earth science professors contend initiatives that reduce carbon emissions from corporations and households can fill some of the gap. Read More

Inspired by last year’s flooding in Louisiana, Chris Lowry wrote his winning composition, which premieres in June in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Christopher Lowry In August 2016 much of southern Louisiana lay underwater, flooded by more than 7.1 trillion gallons of rainfall. It was, meteorologists said, a… Read More