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The Tennessean: In Nashville, housing options push working class to the edge

Peabody researchers Claire Smrekar and James Fraser comment on the economic and social problems created by high housing and transportation costs for low-income workers. Read More

Surplus vehicle auction runs through July 30

Pictured is one of the vehicles currently up for auction, a 2010 Volkswagen Jetta. (Image provided by Plant Services) Vanderbilt Plant Services’… Read More

Sign up now for annual breast cancer walk

iStockphoto The 11th annual Nashville Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 20. Last year, more than 17,000 participants walked… Read More

Migration of email mailboxes begins July 16

iStockphoto Migration of mailboxes for the Vanderbilt community will begin July 16. Users who do not use mail archive are moving to Vanderbilt’s new enterprise… Read More

ITS offers SharePoint training

ITS is pleased to offer several SharePoint 2010 training options to the Vanderbilt community. In order to meet the different needs of faculty and staff,… Read More

Newborn star’s spots confirm stellar growth theory

The latest observations of a newly born star have found that it has a pair of spots on its surface that are heated to more than one million degrees. The presence of these spots confirms a theory for how stellar infants grow advanced by Professor of Astronomy David Weintraub and a colleague. Read More

Dyer Observatory UFO contest winners: A correction and a note from the editor

When choosing our contest winners, our judges accidentally attributed each winning answer to the author of the answer before it. Read More

Hothouse for Scientists: Undergraduates work alongside seasoned researchers

The Systems Biology and Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Experience Searle Undergraduate Research Initiative is one of only a handful of multiyear, year-round undergraduate research programs in the nation. Read More

Stock up on discounted Vandy gear at Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt has customized black and gold apparel from a wide variety of vendors, including Ralph Lauren. (John Russell/Vanderbilt)… Read More

All steps of Go for the Gold now ready

All three steps of the nationally award-winning Go for the Gold program are now ready to complete. Step One: Complete your yearly Health… Read More

VUMC leaders: ‘The Future is All Around Us’

A team of writers and reporters from VUMC News and Communications spoke to a selected group of Medical Center leaders about where they think… Read More

Hutton Hotel offering VU discount

The Hutton Hotel offers a wide variety of amenities, including chic, ultra-modern decor. Image courtesy of Hutton.com. Nashville’s Hutton Hotel… Read More

Discovery of new sub-atomic particle a major leap forward

Vandy physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider respond to the announcement that the collaboration has found a new subatomic particle that may be the long-sought Higgs boson. Read More

Winners of UFO identification contest named

An unidentified object captured by the Dyer Observatory during the Venus transit. (Dyer Observatory/Vanderbilt) Our UFO has been identified and we have… Read More

Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America

Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach for America and Teach for All, participated in a roundtable discussion with select Peabody faculty… Read More

Kudos

Department of Human and Organizational Development faculty and students played a key role in securing a Promise Neighborhood Planning Grant awarded to Nashville’s Martha O’Bryan… Read More

Evolutionary perspective illuminates controversial economic theory

Groundbreaking new research in the field of “evolutionary analysis in law” not only provides additional evidence that chimpanzees share the controversial human psychological trait known as the endowment effect – which in humans has implications for law – but also shows the effect can be turned on or off for single objects, depending on their immediate situational usefulness. Read More

The Face of the Institution

Current students show that Peabody still draws the best for their student body. Read More

The Most Important Asset

The Leadership and Organizational Performance program trains students who cultivate workforce leaders. Read More

Principals’ Leadership and Leadership Principles

For much of the past century, the typical role of the school principal was to serve as the manager-in-chief, an administrator who made sure the boilers worked, the buses ran on time and new teachers were hired and placed in classrooms. In the wake of school reform during the last decade, however, the role of the principal has changed dramatically. For today's principals, Peabody is creating professional development to provide a whole new skill set. Read More