Year: 2019

A recent town hall meeting brought together senior university leaders and several hundred Vanderbilt community members to discuss the findings of two capital improvement studies. Read More

Provost Susan R. Wente will host a town hall in partnership with the Faculty Senate to discuss proposed uses of a 19th Avenue building acquired by the university. Read More

This week our favorite #vandygram goes to @deng.angie, who shared some beautiful spring shots she took on campus. 🌸  We just love our campus this time of year! 😍 Read More

Vanderbilt University Theatre and the Department of Cinema and Media Arts will present a two-night event at Neely Auditorium April 17-18. Read More

For the seventh straight year, Vanderbilt graduate students competed March 29 to summarize years of research and discovery into a clear three-minute presentation as part of the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Read More

Kevin Zhang, a Vanderbilt Class of 2018 graduate and founder of Kreator Consulting, will discuss e-commerce strategies at an April 9 workshop at the Wond'ry. Read More

When the School of Nursing celebrated its $23.6 million building expansion in late January, the event capped nearly two years of continuous construction. Dennis Spann, administrative officer for VUSN facilities and space, was integral to all of it. Read More

Jonathan M. Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society will discuss “Mental Illness, Mass Shooting, and the Politics of American Firearms”. Read More

This event is presented in partnership by Metro Arts and The Curb Center for Art Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt. Read More

Join the Wond'ry to welcome guest lecturer Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff, a pioneering scientist who helped discover how to synthesize insulin in the 1970s. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students are invited to join the Caregiver Support Group meeting for a discussion about the red flags of a scam artist, the signs of financial exploitation, and steps to prevent it from happening to loved ones.  Read More

A commonly used muscle relaxant can cause severely low blood pressure in patients already taking a CYP1A2 inhibitor, such as ciprofloxacin, find Cecilia Chung and colleagues. Read More

Jonathan Soslow and colleagues have found more clues to why people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy are at risk for a certain kind of heart problem. Read More

Stephen Fesik and colleagues have uncovered more details about how a crucial component of RAS proteins, which trigger about a third of all tumors, work. This finding will help advance the discovery of new cancer therapies. Read More

Ravindra Duddu has been awarded a $555,000 NSF CAREER grant to analyze Antarctic ice sheet fracture, improve models for ice mass loss and reduce uncertainty in long-term projections of average sea level rise. Read More

Some of the leading efforts to understand the changing nature of public higher education, and implement policies to address those shifts, are being directed by Peabody faculty and alumni. Read More

VU Theatre has adapted a fifth-century Greek tragedy by Aeschylus to spotlight the contemporary global immigration crisis in an April 4-7 production at Neely Auditorium. Read More

Cynthia Paschal is devoting significant time to 2019 Commencement as the first woman in the history of Vanderbilt to be selected for the leadership position of university marshal. Read More

The "Nashville Business Journal" recently released its 2019 “40 under 40” honorees. The list includes six Vanderbilt alumni. Read More

New residential faculty appointments have been announced for Warren College and East House, effective fall 2019. Read More