Fighting Duchenne by supporting research
A week before Christmas 2008, Terry and Sonya Marlin received the type of news no parent ever wants to hear. Both of their sons, Jonah… Read More
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Celebrate anniversary of first manned spaceflight at Dyer on Friday
This Friday, Dyer Observatory and friends of the children's educational video series Janet's Planet will celebrate the anniversary of the first manned space flight at Dyer's monthly Open Telescope Night. Read More
Data and voice outage on parts of campus
UPDATE 8:02 AM: Data network service to all buildings affected has been restored. Phone Service that is based on Lync and Voice over IP… Read More
Grad students can apply now for SoTL Scholars Programs
The Center for Teaching invites applications for the SoTL Scholars Program, designed to help graduate students cultivate a scholarly, evidence-based approach to their students’ learning and their own teaching. Read More
Medical Demand Check Office moves to Baker Building
The Medical Center Demand Check Office is now located at the Baker Building, 110 21st Ave. S., consolidating all demand check and invoice processing… Read More
Tabletop plasma generator brings Jupiter’s core to the lab
A Vanderbilt engineering graduate student has created a small-scale, efficient way to produce high-energy density plasma--the state of matter found in the center of stars and gas giants like Jupiter--with a tabletop device. Read More
Peabody Colloquium: “The End of Exceptionalism in American Education”
In his new book, The End of Exceptionalism in American Education, Jeffrey Henig traces the roots of the shift in school governance. Once the domain of local and state school boards, decisions about schools and schooling have begun to emerge in every level and branch of government. In this Peabody College colloquium, Henig, professor of political science and education at Columbia University, reflects on the erosion of the “special status” of education decision-making over the past 50 years. Read More
Joe Sestak: “After Afghanistan: The National Security Challenges of the Next Decade”
Joe Sestak, the highest-ranking military official ever elected to Congress, addressed future national security issues for the United States during an April 4 lecture co-sponsored… Read More
Grant bolsters liver tumor surgery techniques
A team led by Vanderbilt University biomedical engineer Michael Miga, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, and Neurological Surgery, has been awarded a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to enhance image-guided surgery techniques for safely removing liver tumors. Read More
ME student selected for 2013 NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program
Theodore Malik Russell has received early acceptance notice to take part in the 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md. Read More
Jennifer, I need you for my touring band
When nine-time Grammy award winner Sheryl Crow personally called Professor Jennifer Gunderman asking her to join her touring band, she didn’t pick up the phone. Read More
Peabody alumna is creating social change
For Alyssa Van Camp, a graduate student in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and former undergraduate at Vanderbilt, bettering the world has… Read More
Laura Reinbold, BE’82, leaves her mark on Nashville’s changing skyline
Laura Reinbold (BE’82) is fond of saying that since coming to Vanderbilt University at age 17, she’s never lived much more than a mile from… Read More
Enhanced eProcurement electronic catalog launches week of April 22
Procurement Services has launched a significant enhancement to the eProcurement electronic catalog (eCatalog). Read More
Women with elite education opting out of full-time careers
...first-of-its-kind research by Vanderbilt professor of law and economics Joni Hersch shows that female graduates of elite undergraduate universities are working much fewer hours than their counterparts from less selective institutions. Read More
Humphrey Fellows wrap year at VU
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program will honor 2012-13 Fellows and their network of supporters during a special closing ceremony. Read More
Literati Longley and Longley to speak as part of visiting writers series
Michael Longley, courtesy of English Dept. Michael Longley, one of Ireland’s most distinguished poets, will read at Vanderbilt as part of the… Read More
Vanderbilt launches 2013 Faculty-Staff Campaign
Vanderbilt has kicked off its annual Faculty-Staff Campaign, with a goal of raising $1.25 million or more with at least 1,500 university central faculty and staff members participating. Read More
College athletics needs clearer message to support higher education mission, panel says
To better ensure that student-athletes get the full measure of their college educations, we need to change the messages we send to them, said a panel examining the role of intercollegiate athletics in the mission of higher education April 3. Read More
James Cone: “The Cross and the Lynching Tree”
Watch leading theologian James Cone give a talk called "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" at Vanderbilt Divinity School April 3, 2013. Read More
