Sustaining Tennessee in the Face of Climate Change: Ben Preston

Watch video of Ben Preston, of Oak Ridge National Laboratories and co-author of the Sustaining Tennessee Report, who provided an overview of the sustainability report… Read More

Sustaining Tennessee in the Face of Climate Change: Karl Dean

Watch video of Nashville Mayor, Karl Dean, providing opening remarks at the report release event. He provided insight as to what Nashville is doing to… Read More

InsideOut of the Lunch Box: The Culture of a Neighborhood

Watch video of the most recent presentation in the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series – The Culture of a Neighborhood – which took place… Read More

The importance of algebra, quality pre-K and addressing reading problems

Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development, continues to share her expertise with in the midstate and highlight Peabody research… Read More

Caving for Cures project gains museum limelight

If you drop by the American Museum of Natural History the next time you visit New York, there is a good chance that you will see an exhibit highlighting Vanderbilt chemist Brian Bachmann’s "caving for drugs" research. Read More

Sustaining Tennessee: Challenges and opportunities for making good decisions

The effects of climate change will have widespread impact on the state, but there are opportunities to offset it by incorporating “climate-friendly” and “climate-resilient” actions into routine management decisions, say scientists from Vanderbilt University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Memphis and the Tennessee Department of Health in a new report. Read More

Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network serving more of Middle Tennessee

VUMC and its affiliate medical centers have created a new health plan called the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network that will provide a broader spectrum… Read More

Sex matters: Guys recognize cars and women recognize birds best

Women are better than men at recognizing living things and men are better than women at recognizing vehicles: That is the unanticipated result of an analysis of data from a series of visual recognition tasks collected by Vanderbilt psychologists. Read More

Nursing School event gives sneak peek into PBS’ ‘Midwife’

(Photo courtesy of PBS) “Call the Midwife,” a British drama about the lives of midwives working in the East End of London… Read More

Curb Center names Creative Campus grant recipients

(John Russell/Vanderbilt) Creativity. Innovation. Change. The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is pleased to announce the winners of its signature Creative Campus Innovation… Read More

Men have babies too

(iStock) Don’t miss Babies and You: Men have Babies Too!, a panel of experienced dads discussing what to expect during pregnancy, how to offer… Read More

Photo: Vanderbilt flight paramedic among first responders honored by state officials

From left to right, Bill Gibbons, Jason Deal, Mark Cate. Photo courtesy of the State of Tennessee. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s Chief… Read More

‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ author to speak

Nafisi (Photo courtesy of the author) The Vanderbilt University Speakers Committee will welcome Azar Nafisi, the New York Times best-selling author of… Read More

Getting Personal

The Art of Aging

Forecast Positive

A Home Run

Bouncing Back

Vanderbilt University basketball player Christina Foggie, the top scorer, male or female, at her New Jersey high school and the top-rated recruit, came into her… Read More

Libya needs judicial reform, not vengeance: Vanderbilt expert

Vanderbilt law professor Mike Newton says Libya needs help building a reformed judicial system from the ground up. Read More

Our favorite tweets of the week, Sept. 8-14

  [Storified by VanderbiltU · Fri, Sep 14 2012 12:13:07Peoplefluent attended the Vanderbilt Industry Career Day this week and discovered a lot of… Read More