Year: 2024
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Vanderbilt Board of Trust elects three new members
At its regular spring meeting earlier this month, the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust elected three new trustees, reelected three trustees to second terms, and thanked several outgoing trustees for their service. The board welcomed new trustees David Bronson Ingram, MBA’89, and CJ (Cynthia) Warner, BE’80, who will serve five-year terms beginning July 1. In addition, outgoing Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Board President Anu (Anurag) Pardeshi, BS’00, MS’02, MBA’04, will begin a two-year term as alumni trustee. Read MoreMay 23, 2024
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Celebrating Vanderbilt’s inspiring achievements during Sesquicentennial year
See some of the bold and collaborative actions Vanderbilt University accomplished this year an innovator and leader in solving the world’s most pressing challenges. Read MoreMay 23, 2024
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Dialogue Vanderbilt marks first academic year in action
In August 2023, the university launched Dialogue Vanderbilt, its core initiative to bridge divides, reestablish a vibrant culture of civil discourse and free expression, and showcase experts from on campus and around the world, leading the charge to build more engaged citizens and communities. Read MoreMay 23, 2024
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‘Woven Wind’: Stitching together history and healing through art
“Woven Wind,” led by Vanderbilt art professor Vesna Pavlović, is a collaborative project that honors untold stories of enslaved people through art, archival research and community engagement. Funded by significant grants including a $40,000 NEA grant announced May 15, the project symbolizes resilience and remembrance with unique clay vessels created during reparative justice workshops. Read MoreMay 23, 2024
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Limited Submission Opportunity: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant Programs for Organizations
Vanderbilt University may submit two proposals per year to the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant Programs for Organizations. Read MoreMay 22, 2024
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Two decades of collaboration: Vanderbilt and Civic Design Center’s impact on Nashville’s urban evolution
For over 24 years, the Civic Design Center has stood as a beacon for community-driven urban planning projects and programs. Based in downtown Nashville, this nonprofit organization draws expertise from diverse professional and academic sources, including Vanderbilt University, to engage community members in the envisioning and shaping of the city. Read MoreMay 22, 2024
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Vanderbilt Poll: Majority of Tennessee voters now pro-choice, gender gap developing on key issues
The semiannual, statewide Vanderbilt Poll showed in its most recent survey that slightly more than half of the state’s voters support a woman’s right to an abortion, that there is significant bipartisan support of IVF procedures as well as modest gun control legislation, and that views about many state and national issues differ significantly by gender. Read MoreMay 22, 2024
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How patent law can protect public health
Sean Seymore, Centennial Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, argues that federal courts have “abandoned their gatekeeping function” for protecting public health in patent cases. Read MoreMay 21, 2024
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Driving Tennessee Innovation: Insights from Competitiveness Conversations Across America
Vanderbilt recently hosted a landmark event, Competitiveness Conversations Across America: Tennessee, in collaboration with the Council on Competitiveness and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The gathering brought together key leaders and experts from academia, industry and government to explore strategies for positioning Tennessee as a leader in innovation and competitiveness on a regional, national and global scale. Read MoreMay 20, 2024
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Imagining Wholeness uplifts experiences of cancer and community through the expressive arts
Imagining Wholeness is a culminating showcase of works of expressive art created by participants in the Express Yourself writing workshops at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and in visual art workshops hosted collaboratively by the Curb Center and Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee. Read MoreMay 20, 2024
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Vanderbilt researchers receive $2 million ARPA-H contract to improve software security in medical devices
Vanderbilt Department of Computer Science researchers Kevin Leach and James Weimer have won a $2 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop technology aimed at improving software security in medical devices like insulin pumps, pacemakers and stroke predictors. This is the first award Vanderbilt has received from ARPA-H, an agency within the National Institutes of Health with a mission to support “high-impact” solutions for pressing health care needs. Read MoreMay 20, 2024
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Envisioning Proteins: John Jumper, BS’07, uses AI to work on the “protein folding problem”
John Jumper, BS’07, is a senior staff research scientist for DeepMind, a London-based company that made a huge leap forward in solving the protein folding problem using artificial intelligence. Jumper's work is so significant that he was awarded the 2023 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Read MoreMay 17, 2024
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Nominate faculty for Fall 2024 awards recognizing research, service
Nominations are now open for Vanderbilt’s top faculty awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in research and service to the university and demonstrate Vanderbilt’s appreciation for and commitment to excellence. All faculty are eligible to submit nominations for the four awards that will be presented at the 2024 Fall Faculty Assembly on August 22. Read MoreMay 17, 2024
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WATCH: One community, diverse perspectives
At Vanderbilt, students, faculty, and staff learn and grow through diverse points of view. Our differences of opinion and expertise, supported by our respect for each other, creates an environment of strength, inspiration, and opportunity. Watch as members of the Class of 2024 talk about this concept in a… Read MoreMay 17, 2024
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The Choice: Meacham and Geer on 2024
The Choice, produced by the Dialogue Vanderbilt, is a four-part podcast focused on the key moments and ramifications of the 2024 presidential election between former president Donald J. Trump and current President Joseph R. Biden. Vanderbilt’s Jon Meacham and John Geer will blend history and political science to offer insights and context about this rematch of the 2020 presidential contest. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Why have venture capitalists become so founder-friendly?
A paper co-authored by Brian Broughman, professor of law, proposes a new model for analyzing venture capitalist behavior. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Vanderbilt Law School students craft guide on public grocery stores
Four Vanderbilt Law Students, under the guidance of Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation director Ganesh Sitaraman, authored a paper that sheds light on the benefits and drawbacks of public grocery store models, offering guidance and a model bill for policymakers and leaders considering their use in urban or rural communities. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Study abroad in Africa: A renewed commitment to global experiences
Vanderbilt students want to engage with the world in meaningful ways, and the university is deeply committed to making global opportunities available to students. The Vanderbilt Study Abroad team is essential to those goals, and they recently hosted a workshop with the School for International Training aimed at reinvigorating engagement in study abroad in Africa. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Novel approach to safeguard patient data included among NSF-led National AI Research Resource Pilot
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy recently announced that a team comprised of Vanderbilt’s newly created ADVANCE center and VALIANT lab is among the first round of 35 projects that will be supported with computational time through the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Vanderbilt wins top awards at 2024 ARL Film Festival
Vanderbilt University and the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries won three awards at the ninth annual Association of Research Libraries Film Festival on May 8 at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The “ARLies” recognize excellence in multimedia projects that highlight library collections and their impact. This year’s festival featured 34 submissions from major research libraries across North America. Read MoreMay 16, 2024