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‘American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson’ opens April 28

The exhibition's opening reception is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 11, in Cohen Memorial Hall and will be held in conjunction with the Department of History of Art's awards ceremony and celebration of graduates. Read More

Richard B. Johnston Jr., BA’57, MD’61 is Vanderbilt University Distinguished Alumnus

Richard B. Johnston Jr., BA’57, MD’61—a renowned immunologist and pediatrician—is the recipient Vanderbilt Distinguished Alumni Award. Read More

Vanderbilt English professor awarded 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship

Professor of English Mark Schoenfield, an expert on Romantic periodicals and culture, has been awarded a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in English literature. Read More

Vanderbilt Coaches Caravan begins April 26

Vanderbilt fans will have a chance to mingle with Commodore coaches and chat about what's ahead for Vanderbilt athletics at stops across Middle Tennessee. Football coach Derek Mason, women's basketball coach Stephanie White, soccer coach Darren Ambrose and bowling coach John Williamson, among others, will be featured. Read More

Women’s tennis claims SEC regular season title

In a battle of national collegiate tennis titans, the No. 5 Vanderbilt women's tennis team upset top-ranked Florida, 4-2, to earn the team's first-ever Southeastern Conference regular season championship. Read More

Design Day features bulletproof vest that calls for backup when officers can’t

The event features 70 projects and gives teams of young engineers practice explaining their complicated work to a broad audience. Read More

Alumni Association honors Robert Fry for educational contributions

Robert Fry, senior lecturer in music history and literature, is the recipient of the 2017 Vanderbilt Alumni Education Award. Read More

In emergencies, insurance matters

Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act provides patients with a greater choice of hospital facilities, Vanderbilt researchers have found. Read More

Bowlers finish third at NCAA Championship

Vanderbilt dropped back-to-back games to Nebraska to finish in third place at the NCAA Bowling Championship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday. Read More

SECURITY NOTICE: Car jacking off campus

On Saturday, April 15, shortly after 2 a.m., the Vanderbilt University Police Department was notified of a carjacking that occurred on Villa Place near 15th Avenue South. Read More

Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center pool temporarily closed for repairs

The natatorium at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center will remain closed longer than expected due to a substantial repair project to the pool. Read More

VUToday: ‘Hamilton’ and the Federalist Papers in weekly roundup of VU news stories

Vanderbilt news stories for the week of April 10 include how the musical 'Hamilton' has affected a popular course, as well as a 'Wall Street Journal' article noting Vanderbilt's salary equity among male and female full professors. Read More

My Southern Health: One family’s story—the price of distracted driving

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Read one family's story about how distracted driving impacted them. Read More

Second annual Vanderbilt Giving Day set for June 15

With a goal of 5,000 donors in a single day, Giving Day 2017 offers the entire Vanderbilt community an opportunity to show their gold with gifts of any size to support the university areas that mean the most to them. Read More

New method for tapping vast plant pharmacopeia to make more effective drugs

Geneticists have developed an effective new method for identifying the genes that produce the chemicals plants use to protect themselves from predators, which are an important natural drug source. Read More

A new mode of DNA repair

Structural details of a protein that removes DNA lesions shed light on fundamental mechanisms of DNA repair. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine moves to eighth in NIH research funding

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) now ranks No. 8 in the nation among U.S. medical schools in total grant support provided through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The new ranking raises VUSM’s standing two spots from the No. 10 position it held last year. Read More

Sessions for next week’s ‘Celebrate’ filling up rapidly

Those attending Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) one-hour programs next week to celebrate staff and faculty — Celebrate the Difference YOU Make Every Day! — will be entered for drawings to win concert and athletic event tickets in addition to hearing inspiring messages from VUMC leadership and patients. Read More

Pathologist Rauch relishes opportunities to help

Pathologist Carol Rauch, M.D., Ph.D., likes being prepared. Read More

Trial to test implantable device to ease gastroesophageal reflux

For more than a dozen years Buz Harrison, a Nashville-based media producer, has been plagued by gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Read More