Kara Furlong

Wangari Maathai and Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos on May 12, 2011. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) Wangari Maathai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize who spoke as part of Vanderbilt’s Senior Day activities in May, has died following a battle with cancer. She was 71. Maathai founded the Green Belt… Read More

David Ernst (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt’s David Ernst, professor of physics and astronomy, has won the Francis G. Slack Award from the Southeast Section of the American Physical Society. The award is given for “excellence in service to physics in the Southeast.”… Read More

(John Russell/Vanderbilt) A new website will serve as the central location to coordinate charitable giving by Vanderbilt faculty and staff to the university, to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and to the Nashville community, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced Sept. 22. Vanderbilt Gives consolidates the annual Community Giving, Faculty-Staff… Read More

Open Enrollment, the annual opportunity to take charge of your benefits and elect the coverage that fits your needs for the coming year, is Oct. 1-14. This is an active enrollment, which means you need to enroll by 5 p.m. Oct. 14 to receive the coverage you want. If… Read More

Solar film has been installed at the Vanderbilt co-generation power plant in a project sponsored by the Vanderbilt Green Fund. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) An innovative solar energy installation now adorns a concrete silo at the Vanderbilt co-generation power plant. The unique, 8.16-kilowatt, student-initiated solar project – made possible by funding… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos Dear Colleagues, Vanderbilt is a “giving” institution. Through providing access to a distinctive educational experience to many talented young students, through discovery that gives meaning to life and through research that leads to cures for human maladies, we serve humanity and seek to respond to… Read More

  Jeff Balser delivered the State of the Medical Center address Sept. 20. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) Jeff Balser, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, presented his State of the Medical Center address in Langford Auditorium Sept. 20. Balser discussed highlights from the previous fiscal… Read More

Fred Ochieng’ (left) and Milton Ochieng’. (Dana Johnson/Vanderbilt) Milton Ochieng’, a 2008 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine graduate and co-founder of the Lwala Community Alliance, will speak at two sessions of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New… Read More

Yearlong series will address current sustainability topics Using fresh food items from the Vanderbilt Farmers' Market will be the first topic in the Green Bag Luncheon Series, which kicks off Sept. 21. (Vanderbilt University) Starting this month, Vanderbilt’s Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) and the American… Read More

An interfaith service of prayer, hope and remembrance was held at Benton Chapel Sunday afternoon. The event mirrored a service held 10 years ago on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, following terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Read More

Margurite Douglas, who is marking 60 years of employment at Vanderbilt in 2011, will be honored at the annual Service Awards Celebration scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Lindsay Walker was named campus recycling coordinator July 1, in time to spearhead recycling efforts at first-year student Move In in August. Read More

Vanderbilt Rowing now has use of a new longer boat dock, thanks to the efforts of a local Boy Scout and the collaboration of the Nashville rowing community. Read More

VEMS puts undergrads on the front lines of medicine Members of the Vanderbilt Emergency Medical Society undergo CPR instructor training through the Vanderbilt Resuscitation Program. (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Pendell Meyers is planning a career in medicine, so the summer after his freshman year at Vanderbilt he got a job drawing… Read More

James Bradford (Vanderbilt University) James Bradford, dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management, has been named to the board of directors of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. Vanderbilt’s Department of Mathematics is headquarters to Constructive Approximation, an internationally recognized mathematics journal recently ranked 10th out of 277 journals… Read More

Student Natalie DuBose looks at prayer ribbons hanging from the remembrance tree on Sept. 13, 2001. (Vanderbilt University/Neil Brake) In the hours and days following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Vanderbilt responded to the tragedy by organizing events and services designed to give the university community opportunities… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Curb Scholars and Creative Campus residential fellows convened for a creative practice opening retreat Aug. 19 at the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center. Read More

Beginning Aug. 28, Kristen Cattoi and fellow members of the Vanderbilt Emergency Medical Society will teach a free CPR/AED/Heimlich certification class each week at the Ingram Commons in cooperation with the Vanderbilt Resuscitation Program. Read More

Alumni Memorial Hall on the Vanderbilt campus has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, one of several sites in Middle Tennessee to recently receive the designation from the National Park Service. Read More

What started five years ago as a dissertation project to examine if increasing access to healthy foods would also increase healthy behaviors in Nashville’s impoverished neighborhoods has blossomed into a popular summertime program for area school children and community members alike. Read More