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Changes to parking permit fee for 2012-13 academic year

(Vanderbilt University) The price of regular parking permits for University Central faculty, staff and students will increase an additional $5 per month for the… Read More

Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff share discoveries at USA Science & Engineering Festival

A group of Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff will share their research and passion for science and technology with middle and high school students at the nation’s largest science fair April 27-29 in Washington, D.C. Read More

Protests and Social Change: Anti-war Protests of the 60’s

Watch video of Steve Cobb and Mike Murphy speaking at the Osher Lifelong Learning class, “Protests and Social Change: Anti-war Protests of the 60’s”. Today, protests… Read More

Protests and Social Change: The Sociology of Protests and the Tea Party

Watch video of Steven Tepper, assistant professor of sociology, speaking at the Osher Lifelong Learning class, “Protests and Social Change: The Sociology of Protests and… Read More

Senior design team wins $90K EPA grant for spinach-powered solar cell

At the Eighth Annual National Sustainable Design Expo, a team of Vanderbilt engineering seniors won the Marketplace Innovation Award, Student Choice Award and a $90,000 Phase II grant from the EPA for a biohybrid solar panel that substitutes expensive silicon wafers with a protein derived from spinach. Read More

William Franke: “Dante and the Sense of Transgression: The Trespass of the Sign”

Listen to an interview is with William Franke, Professor of Comparative Literature, Italian, and Religious Studies, about his forthcoming book Dante and the Sense… Read More

Bonnie Miller-McLemore: “The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology”

Listen to an interview is with Bonnie Miller-McLemore, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling, about the new book… Read More

Travel reimbursement policy has been updated

iStock Vanderbilt staff and faculty who travel on university business should note a new benefit in the travel reimbursement policy. “Earlybird Check-In,” such as… Read More

Senior engineering student receives Fulbright to teach in Brazil

Roteta Senior engineering student Pauline Roteta has been selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Brazil. Read More

Computer science student named 2012 Goldwater Scholar

Curtis Northcutt, a member of the Class of 2013, has been named a 2012 Goldwater Scholar. Each year, Vanderbilt is given the opportunity to… Read More

Two Vanderbilt humanities professors named Guggenheim fellows

Two humanities professors in Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science have been named 2012 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read More

Vanderbilt ranked sixth among ‘America’s Top Universities for Food Lovers’

Internet magazine The Daily Meal re-ranked the U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 top 20 colleges and universities based on their food… Read More

Alvey, Weintraub address United Nations on music and astronomy

Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory Director Rocky Alvey celebrated two things he cares about deeply at the United Nations on April 12: music and… Read More

Engineering, Peabody effort lands NASA STEM outreach award

A combined team from Vanderbilt Engineering’s Aerospace Club and Peabody’s Department of Teaching and Learning won a prestigious outreach award from NASA for inspiring school students in the study of rocketry and other science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related topics. Read More