Missy Pankake

Photo courtesy of Sloan Digital Sky Survey The Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory is celebrating the anniversary of “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Ten Years Observing the Universe” with a series of special Stellar Nights lectures this fall. “Galaxies, Quasars and the Universe” will be given by Andreas Berlind on Tuesday, Aug. Read More

Several Vanderbilt alumnae have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships to travel abroad in 2010-2011: Amy Cattle, Annelyse Freyman, Katherine Mcallister, Angela Sutton and Leslie Esbrook. Cattle, ’10, will travel to Uraguay to teach English as a foreign language. Freyman, ’10, will be traveling to Colombia, also to teach… Read More

Vanderbilt University is among the Top 20 medium-sized colleges and universities contributing the greatest number of graduating seniors to Teach For America’s 2010 teaching corps. According to Teach For America’s recently released annual rankings, Vanderbilt tied for 10th, up from 17th last year, with 36 graduates preparing to teach… Read More

The Vanderbilt Political Review, a non-partisan political journal run entirely by Vanderbilt undergraduate students, will host the first Nashville Intercollegiate Activism Conference on Feb. 27. The one-day conference will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Nashville civil rights sit-ins and will examine how students were able to defeat segregation as well as how students can be involved in social change today. Read More