Year: 2025

By Jennifer Kiilerich More than 60 percent of American students aged 12-18 are interested in a career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to a 2023 Walton Family Foundation survey. On the road to a life in STEM, proficiency in high school math has been identified by researchers as… Read More

The PCG Lab will serve as a hub for innovative scholarship, resources, and student learning opportunities in the emerging field of private climate governance. Led by renowned Vanderbilt environmental law scholars, the Lab provides feasible solutions to private actors – ranging from individuals to corporations, financial institutions, religious organizations, and advocacy groups – that can effectively contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing has received a transformational $25 million commitment from trustee John Arnold, BA’95, and his wife, Laura Arnold, to provide foundational support for the college’s faculty leadership, teaching and initiatives that fuel real-world impact. Read More

As part of the Curb Center’s spring programming theme “Art and Democracy,” painter Robert Shetterly will be visiting Vanderbilt courses and giving a talk with senior lecturer Jack Crawford during the week of March 17. Read More

The scholarship, with funds provided by Vanderbilt University, will support students in the Next Steps at Vanderbilt program. Based in Peabody College of education and human development, Next Steps is a four-year, postsecondary certificate program for neurodiverse students. “This scholarship is an exciting development that aligns with the… Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit up to five applications to the 2025 Incyte Ingenuity Awards in graft-versus-host-disease. Read More

See how a group of Vanderbilt student storytellers are weaving AI and imagination to inspire transformational change. Read More

Smiles, hugs and a few tears filled the room at the Martin Professional Development Center on Feb. 27 as seniors from zoned and magnet Metro Nashville Public Schools celebrated admission to Vanderbilt and induction into the inaugural cohort of the Nashville Vanderbilt Scholars Program.  Read More

Vanderbilt Law School has received a gift from the Anbridge Charitable Fund to endow the creation of The Gail Anderson Cañizares Innocence Clinic, which will support the exoneration of wrongfully convicted individuals in Tennessee while providing students with hands-on case experience. The clinic, which will function as a course available to 2L and 3L students, launches in the 2026 spring semester and will coordinate with the Tennessee Innocence Project to source cases. Read More

In the third episode of the Quantum Potential podcast, Provost C. Cybele Raver welcomes chemist Brian Bachmann, who is the principal investigator for the Vanderbilt Laboratory for Biosynthetic Studies. Read More

All faculty are invited to attend the March 6 Faculty Senate meeting and hear from Vice Provost Padma Raghavan, Vice Chancellor J. Nathan Green and Associate Provost Alan Wiseman regarding research funding and university relations. Senators will vote on two resolutions as well. The meeting begins at 4:10 on the second floor of the Faculty Commons Building at 1101 19th Ave. S.  Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center invites parents/caregivers and their infant (~6-12 months old) to participate in a music class/parent education opportunity. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have announced an open access agreement with Springer Nature, a global leader in research publishing. The agreement, the first of its kind in North America, enables Vanderbilt-affiliated authors to maximize the dissemination and citations of their research without incurring article processing charges when publishing in Nature, the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal, and 38 other Nature hybrid journals that are part of the publisher’s portfolio. Read More

  As National Employee Appreciation Day approaches, we’re excited to share insights from the 2024 Employee Appreciation Survey—which highlight what matters most to Vanderbilt staff. Over 800 staff members shared their voices, and the results are clear: swag, Turkey Toss and service awards remain top favorites, while many expressed… Read More

Vanderbilt Campus Dining, in collaboration with the Muslim Student Association, has developed an inclusive and comprehensive dining plan to support students observing Ramadan. This ensures that Muslim students on campus have access to nourishing and culturally authentic meals for Iftar and Suhoor. Hot Iftar meals will be available at… Read More

March marks National Nutrition Month at Vanderbilt, and Campus Dining is hosting a lineup of events for 2025 that celebrate healthy eating, community and culinary creativity. This year’s initiative, Food Connects Us, highlights the journey from local ingredients to the dining table. Be sure to grab one of… Read More

25th Avenue South will be closed from Garland Avenue to Children’s Way starting Saturday, March 8, to Sunday, March 16, to conduct final paving and painting on the roadway. Strategically scheduled during… Read More

Learn about the path that brought dynamic engineering duo Dan Work and Jonathan Sprinkle together and how they're using AI to prevent traffic jams and make highways safer. Read More

A recent pair of papers from the Vanderbilt University labs of Benjamin Spiller, associate professor of pharmacology, and Scott Smith, associate professor of medicine, dig into how peanut allergies are provoked and providing support for the use of a potential treatment option: hypoallergens. Both papers were published in February in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Read More

Medicine often takes a one-size-fits-all approach, but a disorder’s root cause can vary. Vanderbilt researchers have found that, for people with long QT syndrome, a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat, a more tailored approach could be beneficial. The research, led by Vanderbilt University Professor of Biochemistry and Vice Dean of Basic Sciences Charles Sanders and Northwestern University Professor and Chair of Pharmacology Dr. Al George, was published in PNAS in February 2025. Read More