Year: 2019

Vanderbilt faculty are encouraged to submit applications to the 2019–20 Southeastern Conference Visiting Faculty Travel Grant Program. The program, an initiative of the academic body of the Southeastern Conference, is designed to enhance faculty collaboration among SEC member universities. Read More

Vanderbilt is seeking concept proposals for the MacArthur Foundation 100 & Change competition. The MacArthur Foundation will award one $100 million grant for a project that promises measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time. Read More

In recognition of Better Hearing and Speech Month in May, the Vanderbilt Audiology Clinic in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences is offering free hearing screenings to Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center employees May 1-3. Read More

The conference is the world’s largest gathering of education scholars and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative research. Read More

Adolpho A. Birch III, an NFL executive who is a Law School alumnus and secretary of the Board of Trust, spent the days leading up to the 2019 NFL draft sharing his experiences and advice with the campus community. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced today the second series of portraits honoring five Vanderbilt trailblazers. Zeppos has commissioned paintings of Dorothy Wingfield Phillips, K.C. Potter, David Williams II, Kate Lupton and Muhammad Yunus. Read More

This week our favorite #vandygram goes to @ryannmartin21. Ryann shared this celebratory photo of her last day of undergrad classes as a graduate of #VU2019! Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos discusses Vanderbilt's new sustainability pledge—which strives to power the campus entirely through renewable energy and be carbon neutral by 2050—in this week’s column. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Equal Employment Opportunity Office has moved to Loews Vanderbilt Plaza, Suite 780. Read More

The Center for Research on Men’s Health at Vanderbilt University is conducting a weight-loss program in the Nashville area. TailorMade: Solutions for Your Health is specifically tailored to overweight and obese African American men ages 35-64. Read More

Junior Andrew Harwell has been awarded a prestigious Udall Scholarship for his dedication to environmental conservation efforts locally and globally. He will join a national cohort of exceptional undergraduates working on environmental issues and policy and health issues related to Native American communities. Read More

On Friday, April 26, at 2:07 a.m., Vanderbilt University Public Safety was notified of an armed robbery that occurred in the shuttle lot near Natchez Trace. Read More

Qiangjun Zhou, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, will present "Molecular Mechanism of Neurotransmitter Release: Locked Until the Last Millisecond" on Tuesday, April 30, at 11 a.m. The talk will be in MRBIII, Room 3131. The event is hosted by the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Read More

Valentina Greco, professor of genetics at Yale University, will present "Principles of Tissue Dynamics and Function Captured by Live Imaging" on Monday, April 29, beginning at 12:15 p.m. The lectured will be in MRBIII, Room 1220. Read More

More than 100 people gathered at Rand Wall on Monday to honor the victims of last Sunday's terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. Read More

Get ready to be inspired by real-life Vanderbilt success stories. Health Plus has invited five Vanderbilt employees to share their successes with weight loss, healthy living, and working with a lifestyle coach. Read More

Join Vanderbilt in celebrating Global Employee Health and Fitness Month in May. Health Plus will offer Know Your Numbers stations throughout the month for staff to check blood pressure and BMI. Participants will be entered into a drawing for great prizes. Read More

The Regression Modeling Strategies (RMS) short course, taught by Dr. Frank Harrell, runs Tuesday, May 14, through Friday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily and is held in Vanderbilt's Alumni Hall, Room 201. This course is intended for statisticians and related quantitative researchers who want to learn some general model development strategies, including approaches to missing data imputation, data reduction, model validation, and relaxing linearity assumptions. Read More

Inspiration and innovation abounded as more than 70 teams of engineering seniors presented their final projects Monday. The annual Senior Design Day attracted hundreds of visitors from Vanderbilt and the Nashville community to the Student Life Center. Read More

An exhibit on the history of irises at Vanderbilt University and Peabody College is on display at Vanderbilt University’s Special Collections through July 2019. Read More