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Just hours after his victory, Tennessee Governor-elect Bill Haslam and members of the Middle Tennessee Mayors’ Caucus, meeting at Vanderbilt, discussed regional transportation, economic development and education, among other issues.
Through its annual funding process, the United Way supports 132 programs within 62 agencies that provide food, shelter, clothing, transportation, financial assistance, crisis counseling and medical needs. That roughly computes to more than 55,000 people impacted by United Way.
While hundreds, if not thousands, of volunteers have come through Dismas House’s doors over the years, many college students have taken their involvement a step further by actually living at Dismas House.
Retiring U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, who represents Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District and chairs the House Committee on Science and Technology, visited the Vanderbilt campus on Tuesday, Nov. 2.
Mr. Jalopy is a Los Angeles-based advocate of the Maker Movement, a community of consumers who repair, rebuild, reuse and even reinvent mass-produced goods.
Vanderbilt University’s results improved in five of the nine sustainability categories and stayed consistent in the other four categories; overall grade was a B.
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.
The event includes a student musical performance, a personal testimonial speaker, reading of names and stories, a candle lighting, and ways to get involved in the community and on campus to enact change.
According to Vanderbilt ceramics professor Susan DeMay, curator of this exhibition, many of the pieces on display are from the three International Ceramics Symposiums, which were held in Memphis, Gatlinburg and Smithville.
International Education Week: Opening Dores to our Global Society is a week full of lectures, fairs, films and discussions.
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