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Photo: Vanderbilt Heart Town Hall

Keith Churchwell, M.D., executive director and chief medical officer of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, spoke at last week’s Town Hall,… Read More

VICC researchers in spotlight at national cancer conference

New Vanderbilt research suggests patients with advanced melanoma — the most deadly form of skin cancer — could safely benefit from a combination of immunotherapy and targeted therapies aimed at specific gene mutations. Read More

Photo: Cunningham Award for Excellence in Biochemistry

Chelsea Sullivan, a graduate student in the lab of Bruce Carter, Ph.D., received this year’s Leon W. Cunningham Award for Excellence in… Read More

Photo: Music and the Mind

Critically acclaimed musician-composer Ben Folds, left, chats with McGill University neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, Ph.D., during last week’s “Music and the Mind” symposium… Read More

Metro students make bicycle models with high-tech tools

Thirteen Nashville public high school students are spending their summer mornings on the Vanderbilt campus building bicycle models using software tools developed to revolutionize the manufacturing of military vehicles. Read More

Recent Books

The latest nonfiction and fiction offerings from Vanderbilt writers Read More

Readers’ Letters

Vanderbilt Magazine’s format is beautiful, the pictures amazing, and the articles are timely, interesting and well written. I look forward to reading it. Read More

Runner’s High

Andrea McDermott Sanders, MEd'06, has run in 10 consecutive Music City Marathons to raise money for the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Reading Clinic. Her inspiration? A young man with Down syndrome named William Spickard. Read More

Star-Spangled Brass

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the poem “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key, Steven Smartt, BME’71, MME’72, aims to play the national anthem 100 times at public events this year. Read More

Tall Order

Professor Doug Adams directs a new School of Engineering lab that allows researchers and students to test advanced sensor systems that can rapidly detect early signs of failure in aircraft, automobiles and wind turbines. Read More

Doors Wide Open

Recently, the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee awarded Francis Guess, MBM'74, its annual Joe Kraft Humanitarian Award, adding him to a roster of honorees that includes John Seigenthaler, Martha Ingram, Vince Gill and Amy Grant, ’82 Read More

Victory Lane: Travis Geisler, BE’03, is driven to win at Team Penske

For as long as Travis Geisler, BE'03, can remember, auto racing has been an integral part of his life. Today he serves as competition director for Team Penske, a racing organization based near Charlotte, N.C. Read More

Scientist, Strategist, Provost

Susan R. Wente, a distinguished scientist who has served as associate vice chancellor for research at Vanderbilt for the past five years, has been named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. Read More

Designed for Innovation

Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust has approved construction of a seven-story engineering and science building designed to foster project teamwork and offer programs, instrumentation areas and core research space that will promote interdisciplinary work. Read More

Design Day

After engineering seniors spent two semesters tackling design challenges from clients with design needs, they showcased their projects during Design Day on April 21. Read More

Passages: William “Billy” Adair, ’69

On Feb. 18 the Blair School of Music lost beloved Big Band director and jazz instructor Billy Adair. A teacher, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and backbone of Blair’s jazz program, Adair died of cancer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More