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Marc Panu is looking forward to a final round in March that will determine a first-place award for undergraduate research at the 40th annual convention of the National Society of Black Engineers in Nashville. Read More

Robert Ousterhout, professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, will present the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is titled “The Life and Afterlife of Constantine’s Column.” A reception… Read More

Best-selling author Anna Quindlen will read from and sign her latest novel, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, in Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. The event is part of the Salon@615 lecture series, a partnership among the Nashville Public Library, Parnassus Books, the… Read More

Robert T. Means Jr., MD’83, has been named dean of the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University, effective March 1. He comes to ETSU from the University of Kentucky where he currently serves as executive dean and professor of internal medicine and is a member… Read More

February is National Heart Month and Health Plus is hosting several events for faculty and staff. Read More

Author Michael R. Bradley will sign his new book "The Raiding Winter" at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt, Saturday, Feb. 15. Read More

Hannah Stahl, BA’12, received Vanderbilt’s Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award, allowing the means for travel and independent art activity for one year. She visited Italy, Amsterdam and Poland—where her trip to Auschwitz inspired 10 paintings of the faces of female prisoners, shortly before execution. The display is currently on view… Read More

Following a nationwide search, Dr. Christine Benz Smith, BSN’76, has been selected as the Director of the UTC School of Nursing.   She has served in several capacities at the university since she joined the UTC School of Nursing faculty in 1997. Read More

Jessica Haley is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt, and she just finished her third season as an NFL cheerleader for the Tennessee Titans. Read More

Kristin Lemkau, BA’89, will become Chief Marketing Officer for JPMorgan Chase. In this role, she will oversee brand strategy and advertising, sponsorships, market research and event marketing across the firm. She will work closely with each of the businesses on their product strategies and marketing approaches, and work to build… Read More

Great Performances at Vanderbilt presents jazz innovator Jon Batiste and Stay Human at 6 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Blair School of Music’s Ingram Hall. Read More

The Kay Yow Cancer Fund, in partnership with the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association and The V Foundation for Cancer Research, has awarded a $100,000 ovarian cancer research grant to the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Read More

Combining their love of college football and knowledge of the New York Stock Exchange – and some savvy and sophisticated technological skills – Will Schreiber (BA ‘13, economics) and McArthur Gill (BE ’13, mechanical engineering) developed Stadium Stock Exchange during their final semester. In one year, the venture has… Read More

Vanderbilt alumna Leslie Labruto’s early career trajectory illustrates just how many ways a young civil environmental engineer can accommodate both her heart’s leaning and her tangible talents – in as many places as possible. Before she graduated from the School of Engineering in 2011, Leslie’s studies and service work had… Read More

“The truth is this: We have allowed a human-rights nightmare to occur on our watch,” she told a packed house at Langford Auditorium back in January while delivering the keynote address for Vanderbilt’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. “In the years since Dr. King’s death, a vast new system of racial and social control has emerged from the ashes of slavery and Jim Crow.” Read More

The Vanderbilt University Department of Art welcomes to Space 204 a mixed media exhibition by new faculty member Jana Harper. Read More

The Vanderbilt Aerospace Club will outfit its NASA Student Launch Project rocket with a modified camera to capture landing hazards. Read More

Evan Mack, B.Mus’03, is the recipient of one of the newest awards presented by the Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board of Directors — the Young Alumni Professional Achievement Award. Read More

A paper first-authored by Vanderbilt graduate engineering student Michael King concludes that electronics designed to operate with ultra-low power likely will exhibit high sensitivity to electron-induced single-event upsets due to interference from solar flares, cosmic rays and the like. Read More

On a quiet street just off of Nashville's historic Music Row, a dedicated team of more than 100 researchers are developing software systems that may very well revolutionize the modern world. Read More