Year: 2024

By Jenna Somers Andrew Nalani, assistant professor of human and organizational development (submitted photo) New research by Andrew Nalani, a faculty member at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, examines the viewpoints of youth care workers in juvenile residential facilities and their desires for fostering… Read More

Brent Evans, associate professor of public policy and higher education, began his appointment in the Biden Administration as the senior advisor to the chief economist and to the under secretary of education at the U.S. Department of Education. At the Department of Education, Evans provides technical expertise and research knowledge to inform the administration’s regulatory policy on student debt relief and loan forgiveness. Read More

 Lyra makes the process of finding a therapist for your teen as fast, easy and stress-free as possible. Vanderbilt employees and their families are eligible to receive 12 counseling sessions per household member each year, at no cost to the employee. You can have your teen create an account on their own or you can book an appointment for them. Read More

Dialogue Vanderbilt is partnering with the Aspen Institute’s Weave Project to bring Robert Putnam to campus to explore “How to Heal a Divided America" on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 5:30 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt University Campus Dining has been honored with the 2024 Tennessee Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award for Sustainable Performance for its leadership in innovation to significantly cut the university’s overall environmental impact.  Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Assistant Dean, PhD in Nursing Science Angela McNelis, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, CNE, was awarded the Mary Adelaide Nutting Award as part of the 2024 National League for Nursing Awards. The award is given to an individual who demonstrates outstanding teaching, contributes as a leader in nursing education, encourages creative interactions with students from diverse backgrounds, mentors and serves as a role model for junior faculty, and publishes scholarly works that advance nursing education. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU + VUMC, collaboratively) may nominate up to two candidates for the Moore Inventor Fellows competition. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU + VUMC, collaboratively) may submit applications for one Scholar (Career Development) Award and one Research Grant proposal for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation spring grant cycle. Read More

Research from the lab of Bill Tansey and other collaborators tested protein inhibitors called WINi against a panel of cancer cells and found that they have strong action against blood cancers and synergize with an FDA-approved cancer drug. Read More

Acid mine drainage. Digitally printed legal documents. Drone photographs. Core samples. Appalachian bituminous coal. The artists represented in Extraction/Interaction—the Curb Center’s fall exhibition—use these and other materials to create bodies of work that galvanize responses and resistance to the climate crisis. Featuring the work of Will Wilson, Eliza Evans and John Sabraw, Extraction/Interaction considers how climate grief can transform artistic practice into a mechanism for positive environmental impact.   Read More

David Axelrod, senior CNN political commentator and former adviser to President Barack Obama, came to Vanderbilt Tuesday night to appeal to the community’s better angels: “It’s not about if the red team wins or the blue team wins, or who’s up or who’s down. It’s about what you can… Read More

Vanderbilt University was selected as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for 2024 by Newsweek. In the second-annual ranking, published this summer, the university was recognized in six distinct award categories, reflecting its commitment to creating an inclusive, supportive and empowering environment for all its employees. The categories in which… Read More

Welcome Week is one of the most exciting times of the year at Vanderbilt. From the hustle and bustle of Move-In Day, to campus traditions like Founders Walk, to the excitement of the first day of classes, take a look at just a few of our favorite posts from the start of a new academic year! Read More

To ensure student voices are integral in the direction and activities of Dialogue Vanderbilt, a new cross-initiative Dialogue Vanderbilt Student Advisory Board is being established, effective for the fall 2024 semester. Applications are now open for all undergraduate students. Dialogue Vanderbilt is the university’s core initiative to bridge divides,… Read More

Meet some of our new faculty members and learn about their fascinating research. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to grow its effective sexual assault nurse examiner education program. The new grant will expand recruitment, education and retention strategies for SANEs and increase, diversify and sustain the national SANE workforce. Read More

Embarking on a new research project often brings unexpected discoveries—some intriguing, some novel, but rarely a find of a lifetime. Such a remarkable discovery occurred when university archivist and associate director Kathy Smith stumbled upon a pile of plaster, hidden away for 60 years in a dim, cluttered closet of the Branscomb Quad basement. This plaster turned out to be the long-lost Crampton’s Plesiosaur Cast from the 1870s, missing for nearly six decades. Read More

The Nashville Math Circle is back for fall 2024, and registration is now open. The program provides Nashville-area students in grades 7–12 the opportunity to learn creative math problem-solving skills in a friendly, fun environment from leading Vanderbilt faculty. Read More

What do a Commodore ID Card, a piece of the Bicentennial Oak, a baseball signed by two-time national championship-winning head baseball coach Tim Corbin, and a video of the 2019 Carmichael Tower implosions all have in common? They are among more than 150 items that future generations will discover in a Vanderbilt time capsule to be opened in the year 2174. Read More

Please Continue: Literary Correspondence as Conversation features notes and letters penned by acclaimed writers representing more than a century of English literature, from the mid-1800s to the 1980s. Highlights include correspondence from Mark Twain, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Zora Neale Hurston, C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Langston Hughes, P.G. Wodehouse, Katherine Anne Porter and others. Read More