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Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr., BA'78, JD'81, was confirmed to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee by a 92-0 vote of the U.S. Senate April 11. Read More

Dr. Chad Buck, a clinical psychologist at Vanderbilt’s Work-Life Connections-Employee Assistance Program, was featured in an article on "Huffington Post" on the benefits of setting personal boundaries. Read More

A researcher who focuses on heart disease and "organs on chip" platforms for disease modeling will deliver the second Emerging Scholars in Engineering lecture Tuesday, April 19. Read More

The welcome of new head men's basketball coach Bryce Drew to campus is one of our favorite #vandygram photos of the week. Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism and the Peabody Office of Professional and Graduate Education present "Obesity Intervention and Prevention: It Takes a Village" April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. Read More

Some local day care centers are reporting incidents of hand, foot and mouth disease. Learn more about this viral illness, which blossoms in the spring causing fever, fussiness and ulcers. Read More

Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, presents "Interfaith Leadership: Engaging Faith and Philosophical Diversity in the 21st Century" as part of the Chaplain's Speaker Series April 12 in Benton Chapel. Read More

Read the April 2016 issue of "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Matter," the official newsletter of the EDI office. Read More

Vanderbilt University has hired Bryce Drew as head men’s basketball coach, Athletic Director David Williams announced on Wednesday. Drew becomes the ninth Commodore basketball coach of the modern era and 27th all time. Read More

Gold. Oro. Sona. Jīn. Guld. Dhahabu. No matter how you say it, help turn Vanderbilt gold on the first-ever Vanderbilt Giving Day April 21. #give4thegold Read More

For young man with autism, cooking is more than a pastime, it’s a calling. Read More

When it comes to teaching toddlers, there’s no such thing as one size fits all. Read More

A leading theorist and researcher on how technology impacts learning, George Siemens thinks digitization of content and interaction has profound implications on teaching and learning and the organization of universities in general. Read More

TennesseeWorks and the Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resource Management are hosting a CapABILITY Career Expo on May 25. There, employers will share career information and recruit job candidates with disabilities. Read More

John T. Wilson, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development award. The five-year, $500,000 grant will allow him to develop new synthetic materials for “encoding” immunological messages and tightly regulating their delivery to the organs, cells and pathways of the immune system. Read More

Vanderbilt seniors have designed a new method that improves the accuracy of magnetic strip placement during the manufacture of payment cards. Read More

Undergraduates taking Amanda Lowery’s Material Manipulations course have redesigned a toy car so a two-year-old with cerebral palsy can drive it. Read More

On April 1, news of "Vanderbilt's biggest discovery yet" was shared on social media; this image from the Alumni Lawn dig site is one our favorite #vandygram photos of the week. Read More

Health care managers, practitioners and executives looking to advance their careers and become robust organizational managers are invited to apply to the Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care. Read More

The annual Music is Medicine fundraiser benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt is April 7 at the Loveless Barn, featuring the winner of Season 4 of The Voice, Danielle Bradbery. Read More