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Blair School to host piano sale featuring significant discounts
Grand, baby grand, upright and digital pianos and more will be featured during a sale May 23-27 at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. Read MoreMay 14, 2013
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Women’s golf advances to fourth straight NCAA Championship
The Women's golf team advanced to the NCAA Championship for the fourth consecutive season for the first time in program history with a third-pace finish at the West Regional. Read MoreMay 13, 2013
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Men’s tennis is Sweet 16 bound
Men's tennis shut down the Illinois Fighting Illini, 4-1, May 11, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at the Currey Tennis Center at Vanderbilt. Read MoreMay 13, 2013
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‘Dores win SEC championship
Vanderbilt baseball clinched the Southeastern Conference title with a 10-5 win over Kentucky May 12 to finish off a series sweep at Cliff Hagan Stadium in Lexington. Read MoreMay 13, 2013
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Commencement ceremony moved to Memorial Gym
Commencement is being moved to Memorial Gym located on campus at 25th Avenue South because of severe weather conditions. Read MoreMay 10, 2013
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Learning in MOOC Years
"Eight weeks and 30,000 students gave me a crash course in the future of digital learning technologies," writes engineering professor Doug Schmidt in this Vanderbilt Magazine column on his experience teaching one of Vanderbilt University's first massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Read MoreMay 8, 2013
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Get moving on National Employee Health and Fitness Day May 15
National Employee Health and Fitness Day is Wednesday! Join the celebration as Vanderbilt recognizes National Employee Health and Fitness Day. This annual event occurs the third Wednesday every May and is dedicated to promoting physical activity in the workplace. Read MoreMay 8, 2013
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SBIR/STTR Workshop May 21
Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization, in partnership with LaunchTennessee, will host a Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer workshop from 9:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday, May 21, on the Vanderbilt University campus. … Read MoreMay 7, 2013
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Symphony on the Lawn is May 21
Gather with fellow Vanderbilt faculty and staff and their families on Tuesday, May 21, for the 2013 Symphony on the Lawn. Read MoreMay 2, 2013
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Vanderbilt wins $9.3M DARPA contract to evolve tools for military vehicle design
Vanderbilt University engineers in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems have been awarded a $9.3 million contract over two years to continue their work to mature META tools that are part of a flagship Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program. Read MoreMay 1, 2013
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Commodores set record for best league start with wins over Mississippi State
Vanderbilt’s dominance has begun to challenge some historic marks on the heels of another weekend sweep — this one against Mississippi State. Read MoreApr 29, 2013
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Nashville Kids Triathlon is May 19
The Nashville Kids Triathlon takes place Sunday, May 19. There is still time to Join Team Vanderbilt! Read MoreApr 26, 2013
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Rethinking prisons subject of conference
Rethinking Prisons conference brings together more than 100 scholars, activists, and practitioners from across the US, as well as Canada and Brazil, to discuss issues raised by prisons and the death penalty. Read MoreApr 25, 2013
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Free orientation for stress reduction series April 30
A free orientation event for the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction series is scheduled for Tuesday, April 30. Read MoreApr 24, 2013
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Celebration of Teaching is May 3
The Center for Teaching and the Graduate School will honor the achievements of the Vanderbilt teaching community at the annual Celebration of Teaching May 3 at The Commons Center. Read MoreApr 22, 2013
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Aerospace club wins payload design category of annual NASA rocket contest
For the fourth year in a row, the Best Payload Design award went to the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club in the 12th annual NASA University Student Launch Initiative Sunday, April 21, in a field at Bragg Farms in Toney, Ala. This is the sixth year the club has entered the national rocketry competition. Read MoreApr 22, 2013
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Curb Creative Campus grant program seeks innovators
The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is seeking applicants for its signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program, which offers Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to produce original ideas and harness their creativity as a force for positive social change. Read MoreApr 19, 2013
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Seniors earn Aeronautics Institute win before Design Day debut
A novel redesign of industrial exhaust stacks that could result in 12% energy savings has earned a Vanderbilt student design team a second-place win in the team division at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region II conference last week. Read MoreApr 17, 2013
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The New Face of Science: How Vanderbilt became a top producer of minority Ph.D.s in STEM
This year the Fisk–Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge program, directed by Keivan Stassun, professor of astronomy, will become the nation’s No. 1 producer of minority Ph.D. recipients in physics, astronomy and materials science. Read MoreApr 16, 2013
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VU bowling team runners up in NCAA tournament
The Vanderbilt bowling team's bid for another national championship came up just short Saturday, May 13, as Nebraska edged out the Commodores to claim the title. Read MoreApr 15, 2013