Year: 2018

Join the Owen Graduate School of Management on Tuesday, Nov. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the fourth annual Creativity Carnival. This event provides staff, faculty and students with an opportunity to display and sell their handmade and handcrafted items. Items for Second Harvest Food Bank also will be collected during the event. Read More

Join the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning’s videographers in a specialized training designed to help beginners learn the tools and techniques of high-quality video production. Read More

Poor lighting can have a significant impact on a campus' accessibility and shape the college experience of students with disabilities. In this DIVE boot camp, we'll apply the human-centered design process to address the following challenge: How might we improve accessibility at night for the vision- and mobility-impaired?   Read More

Nominations for the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are now open. The deadline is Monday, Dec. 17, at 5 p.m. Read More

Reggie Ford, MAcc’14, founded Rosecrete Wealth Management after finding his way to business at Vanderbilt. Read More

Join us Jan. 28-29, 2019, to learn how you can effectively leverage multigenerational teams and communicate across age groups. Read More

The Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development has received five grants totaling $6.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs. Read More

Would you feel differently about learning your risk for cancer if there were a 5 percent chance of your genetic information being leaked? That was the opening question posed by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, an oncologist and preeminent science communicator, to the large audience attending the Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture Series on Thursday evening. Read More

Jonathan Kaufman, a nationally recognized leader in the diversity and disability arena, discussed the importance of businesses, governments and education systems evolving to be more inclusive of people with disabilities during a recent Vanderbilt lecture. Read More

For four decades, the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center has been an advocate for equity, access and education at Vanderbilt, leading to a more inclusive and equitable environment for women at the university. On Nov. 1, the center marked its 40th anniversary with a celebration in honor of this significant milestone. Read More

Vanderbilt University—for the second consecutive year—has been named the 10th most innovative university in the world, according to a 2018 "Reuters Top 100" analysis. Read More

Janet Roberts, facilities manager for Peabody College, and Sandra Bell, human resources technician for Army ROTC, are the latest recipients of the Chancellor’s Heart and Soul Staff Appreciation Award. Read More

Stephanie Budwey is Luce Dean’s Faculty Fellow Assistant Professor of the History and Practice of Christian Worship and the Arts. Read More

Lt. Col. Dustin Mitchell, director of Army Officer Education at Vanderbilt, and senior cadet Thomas Whittaker will share lessons on leadership during a talk on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Read More

Nominations for the School of Medicine Research Staff Awards are now open. The deadline is Monday, Dec. 10, at 5 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt University Police Department responded on Sunday, Oct. 28, to a report of a racial slur written on a chalkboard in a lecture hall. VUPD has been actively investigating the incident and has notified Metro Nashville Police Department, as well as the Tennessee Fusion Center and the FBI. At this… Read More

If you use an Android device with the Chrome browser running, the tech giant knows whether you are traveling by foot or car, where you shop, how often you use your Starbucks app and when you’ve made a doctor’s appointment, according to research by Doug Schmidt. Read More

Nashville native J. Lindsy McLean, BA’60, was a self-described “Hillsboro High School junior in charge of the football team’s first-aid kit” when he saw an announcement in the local paper that would forever alter his life. The ad was for a class on sports injuries taught by legendary Vanderbilt… Read More

Jeffrey Rathmell and colleagues show that a drug that inhibits glutamine metabolism — currently in clinical trials as an anticancer agent — might also be useful as a treatment for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers led by Buddy Creech are searching for the key to lasting protection against influenza by examining naturally protecting cells found in bone marrow. Read More