Year: 2022
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COVID-19 Sheds Light on the Overlooked Importance of Non-Essential Care Providers
New research from Vanderbilt Business highlights the importance of families, social workers, and chaplains to patient care. Read MoreMar 3, 2022
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Max Adler Student Investment Fund is about More than the Money
This student-run equity investment fund honors Max Adler and is an opportunity for real-world experience with real-world payoffs. Read MoreMar 3, 2022
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Vanderbilt Business Student-Team Takes Second Place at the 2022 UNC Real Estate Development Challenge
A team of 3 Vanderbilt MBA students won $5,000 based on recommendations for DC-area development at the UNC Development Challenge. Read MoreMar 3, 2022
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International research collaboration reveals new possibilities in nanophotonics
Joshua Caldwell, Flowers Family Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow in Engineering and associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Joseph Matson, a graduate student in Caldwell’s lab, have contributed to an international study that has discovered a new type of light-matter coupling. The work has long-term implications for how optical components can be even further miniaturized, a discovery... Read MoreMar 3, 2022
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International research collaboration reveals new possibilities in nanophotonics
Josh Caldwell and graduate student Joseph Matson are part of a team that has discovered how asymmetric light-matter interactions may enable new ways to guide and process optical signals on chips and design compact infrared optical components. Read MoreMar 3, 2022
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WATCH: Author and advocate Cyntoia Brown Long, former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam to discuss criminal justice reform
For the first time since former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted clemency to sex trafficking victim and convicted murderer Cyntoia Brown Long, the two will sit down together for an event at Vanderbilt University to discuss criminal justice reform. The discussion will be held in Langford Auditorium and via livestream on Tuesday, March 15, at 6 p.m. CT. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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26 faculty honored at inaugural endowed chair investiture ceremony
Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver honored faculty from across the university at an endowed chair investiture ceremony on campus Feb. 24, conferring the university’s highest scholastic rank on those who had received the designation during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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Staff bonuses for Vanderbilt’s Acorn School staff funded through state grant
The Tennessee Department of Human Services has awarded a $600,000 grant to the Vanderbilt Child and Family Center that will provide all full-time staff at the Acorn School a one-time $2,000 retention bonus. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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Tennessee Education Research Alliance welcomes new executive director
The Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research-practice partnership between the Tennessee Department of Education and Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, has named Laura Booker as its new executive director. Booker, a senior lecturer in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations, will succeed Erin O’Hara, who served as TERA’s founding executive director for the past five years. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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Nominations open for Spring Staff Awards
Nominations are open through Thursday, March 31, for the 2022 Spring Staff Awards, which recognize the many contributions of university staff to Vanderbilt’s core goals and mission. The winners will be announced at the second annual Spring Staff Assembly on May 23. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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WATCH: Billie Jean King and Candice Lee discuss progress made and challenges remaining for equality in sports
Sports icon and champion for equality Billie Jean King joined Candice Lee, vice chancellor for athletics and university affairs and athletic director, for “Game, Set, Match: A New Era of Equality in Sports” on March 1. The conversation, part of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series, was presented in partnership with the Nashville Public Library Foundation’s Votes for Women. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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Government and Community Relations establishes Community Engagement Collective
The Division of Government and Community Relations has convened the Community Engagement Collective to serve as a campus-wide forum to establish shared knowledge, structures, processes and guidelines to inform Vanderbilt’s work in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee communities. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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Applications open for Center for Teaching’s Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program
The Center for Teaching is now accepting applications for the 2022–23 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program, designed to provide a set of professional development opportunities for junior faculty to learn about successful teaching practices. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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Student proposals now being accepted for spring Undergraduate Research Fair April 14
The second annual spring Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair is scheduled for Thursday, April 14. Students who have completed research while undergraduates at Vanderbilt are encouraged to apply. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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‘Understanding Sundowners in the Elderly’ is March 9
“Sundowners” affects the elderly and those in the early or advanced stages of dementia. It is a state of confusion and disorientation that typically occurs in the late afternoon and early evening. Amy Walters, a case manager with Senior Helpers, will define sundowners, explain who it affects, and common behaviors and care strategies. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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Local Java reopens in Sarratt Student Center
Campus Dining announces the reopening of Local Java, effective March 1. The popular coffee shop was closed during COVID-19 restrictions and has been challenged with staffing shortages into the current academic year. Read MoreMar 2, 2022
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Ben Jordan, esteemed professor for generations of engineering students, has died
Benjamin Thomas Jordan Jr., associate professor of the practice of engineering management, died Feb. 21 in Nashville following a brief illness. He was 79. Jordan was an active faculty member in the Division of General Engineering and had been teaching three engineering management courses this semester. Read MoreMar 1, 2022
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Evolutionary Studies Initiative hosts Elisabeth Bik, top academic ethics sleuth, for virtual J.T. Scopes Lecture
The Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies Initiative welcomes image forensics detective Elisabeth Bik for the inaugural J.T. Scopes virtual lecture. The lecture series highlights the work of high-profile scientists that speak truth to power and defend science. Read MoreMar 1, 2022
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Vanderbilt researcher calls for dismantling racism in STEM fields in newly published commentary
Ebony Omotola McGee, professor of diversity and STEM education at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, calls for the dominant culture in STEM fields to step up to provide remedies for dismantling racism in her editorial, “Dismantle racism in science.” Read MoreMar 1, 2022
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Vanderbilt University professor Kimberly Welch awarded prestigious 2022 Dan David Prize
Kimberly Welch, associate professor of history and assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt University, has been awarded a 2022 Dan David Prize. The internationally renowned annual award, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, gives prizes of $300,000 each to nine early- to mid-career history scholars whose outstanding contributions expand knowledge of the past, enrich society in the present and promise to improve the future of the world. Read MoreMar 1, 2022