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John Wikswo at TEDx Nashville: The Homunculi and I

John Wikswo, Gordon A. Cain University Professor of biomedical engineering and A. B. Learned Professor of Living Physics, presented "Homunculi and I: Lessons from building organs on chips" at TedX Nashville April 6, 2013. Read More

Rebecca Boelzner wants to bolster appreciation for the arts

Rebecca Boelzner (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) Rebecca Boelzner began playing piano at age 6 and violin at 11 before switching to the viola—a stringed instrument slightly… Read More

Mara Truslow and Elin Bunch want to empower children to achieve

Elin Bunch (left) and Mara Truslow (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) Mara Truslow and Elin Bunch are from different parts of the country—Boise, Idaho, and Signal Mountain,… Read More

Josh Shannon wants to pioneer biomedical discoveries

Josh Shannon (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) Growing up in Spring Hill, Fla., Josh Shannon did almost everything with his identical twin, Michael. So when it was… Read More

Shewa Adelekun wants to champion health care equality

Shewa Adelekun (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) When Shewa Adelekun was 5, her family emigrated from Nigeria to New York City. Her father, a doctor in his… Read More

Debate team hosts junior debaters

(Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Young debaters from John Early Middle School and Henry Maxwell Elementary School were named the champions of the Metro Elementary… Read More

Deans offer outlook on Vanderbilt’s teaching landscape at Celebration of Teaching event

Changes in instructional technology as well as changes among the student body present opportunities and challenges in today's university classrooms, said three Vanderbilt deans at a recent Celebration of Teaching event. Read More

Chancellor, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author to address graduating seniors at Vanderbilt University May 9-10

Vanderbilt University seniors will close their chapters as undergraduates with words from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison who will deliver the Senior Day address Thursday, May 9, followed by Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 10. Read More

Clean Air Week events informed, entertained

Library assistant Will Stringfellow bikes to Vanderbilt on a regular basis. (photo courtesy of SEMO/Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt’s Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) and… Read More

Rare Toni Morrison books on display at Vanderbilt library

An exhibition drawn from more than 50 volumes in Vanderbilt University Special Collections that are by or about 2013 Senior Day speaker Toni Morrison are on display in the Central Library. Read More

Free online nutrition course kicks off May 6

There is still time to join more than 66,000 students around the globe who have registered to take a free online course on nutrition from the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. The course begins May 6. Read More

Mountain States Health Alliance, Vanderbilt announce strategic affiliation

The leaders of Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) announced Friday that the two organizations… Read More

Building a Better Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt's annual Faculty-Staff Campaign lets employees give back to areas that interest them most. Read More

Infographic: Commencement 2013 by the numbers

Did you know that 28,650 folding chairs are set out across 11 campus locations for graduating students and their guests? Tally the numbers behind Vanderbilt's 2013 Commencement exercises. Read More

Make alternate parking plans to accommodate Commencement guests May 10

University Central faculty and staff are asked to seek alternate parking on Friday, May 10, to make as many spaces available as possible for guests attending that day’s Commencement activities. Read More

VUCast: An undergrad’s research to boost learning apps; hear amazing talent in a student recording studio

See how an undergrad’s research is boosting learning apps Hear amazing talent inside a student-run music… Read More

Symphony on the Lawn is May 21

Gather with fellow Vanderbilt faculty and staff and their families on Tuesday, May 21, for the 2013 Symphony on the Lawn. Read More

Five elected to Association of American Physicians

Five Vanderbilt University faculty members have been elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians (AAP), one of the nation’s most respected medical… Read More

SOM instructors recognized for serving the underserved

Morgan McDonald, M.D., left, and Jule West, M.D., talk with patient Freddie Mitchell during his visit to the Downtown Clinic. (Photo by… Read More

Event highlights hope, heroism of organ donation

Laura and Chris Hatfield, who had a liver transplant in 2011, with their children Rachel, 7, and Jackson, 3, during the annual… Read More