Campus News

Lauren A. Benton, a distinguished administrator and influential scholar in international legal history, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Science, effective July 1. Benton is Silver Professor of History and affiliate professor of law at New York University, where she currently is dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine continues to rank among the top 10 U.S. medical schools in total grant support provided through the National Institutes of Health. Receiving nearly $294 million in NIH grant support during calendar year 2014, VUSM finished the year ranked No. 10, with an additional $1.6 million in funding over its 2013 total. Read More

During 2015 Vanderbilt Magazine celebrates 100 years of publication. It seems like only yesterday we were printing class notes from the Class of 1880 and reporting on a group of young writers called the Fugitives. Read More

Preventing sexual misconduct and encouraging all members of the Vanderbilt community to stand up, not stand by, when they see someone at risk are the aims of programs underway across Vanderbilt. Read More

Kelby Carlson serves as secretary for the Vanderbilt Disabilities Awareness Partnership, a student organization founded last year to raise awareness about disabilities and improve accessibility. Read More

The growing field of biophotonics explores the interaction of biological systems and light, with the aim of finding ways to use light in medical breakthroughs. Funding in biophotonics research at Vanderbilt totals nearly $25 million. Read More

Vanderbilt students taking a course in cryptography have contributed a series of essays on professor Holly Tucker’s Wonders & Marvels website. Read More

Vanderbilt University Hospital earned the highest possible grade recently in a nationwide survey of hospital patient safety. Read More

Vanderbilt Eye Institute’s Initiative for Personalized Medicine in Ophthalmology looks for biomarkers that determine a person’s risk of developing any of the three leading causes of blindness. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, who is current chair of the SEC’s presidents and chancellors, has appointed a committee to search for the eighth commissioner in the history of the league. Read More

Craig M. Lewis has returned to Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management after three years as chief economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More

Vanderbilt has scored its best position ever in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of national universities, finishing No. 16 after five years at No. 17. Read More

A brand-new pipe organ, built in the style of 18th-century Central German organs similar to those Bach knew, has been installed in the Blair School of Music’s Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall. Read More

Greg Abbott, JD’84, was elected governor of our nation’s second most populous state Nov. 4. Read More

Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced in November that the institution is embarking on a process to reconfigure Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a not-for-profit academic medical center that is financially distinct from the university. Read More

Nashville-area families seeking midwifery care outside the traditional hospital setting will have a new option beginning next summer: an outpatient birth center. Read More

The Vanderbilt Cardio-Oncology program has fostered a collaborative relationship combining the expertise of cardiologists and oncologists to understand effects of cancer therapy on the heart. Read More

John Seigenthaler died July 11 at the age of 86 after a life that saw him serve as special assistant to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy; suffer a brutal beating by segregationists while attempting to aid 1960s Freedom Riders; become a founding editor of what is now one of the nation’s largest newspapers, USA Today; and win the respect and admiration of generations. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Academic Strategic Plan, which will guide university investments in faculty recruitment, capital planning, academic programs and philanthropic priorities during the next decade, was unveiled by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos Aug. 21 at the Fall Faculty Assembly. Read More

A new group called the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)—which includes Vanderbilt engineers and researchers in the university’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)—announced plans in March to create engineering standards for the “Internet of Things.” Read More