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Justin Cox, BE’04, faced a conundrum four years ago – keep working at a steady, prestigious job with the federal government or turn his home brewing passion into a business. The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering alumnus decided he wanted no regrets as an old man and chose the latter. Read More

If you have ever posted or watched a video on Twitter, then you have witnessed the work of Can Envarli, BS’05. Read More

A new study from Owen Graduate School of Management examines how hospitals can apply the principles of highly reliable organizations to reduce errors and improve patient care. Read More

Pregnancy doesn’t necessarily require hospital care. That simple premise is what led Cara Osborne, MSN’01, to co-author a landmark study demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of giving birth outside a traditional medical setting. It’s also an idea that she’s put into practice as the founder of Baby+Company, a group of… Read More

In recent years there has been a noticeable trend in Vanderbilt student-athletes making it to the pros. The Fall 2015 issue of Vanderbilt Magazine highlights these athletes—that have gone pro in seven different sports—and the impact their success has on Vanderbilt athletics. Read More

Just south of Denver, the vision for a futuristic development is coming to reality. The new community is called Sterling Ranch and Brock Smethills, BE’13, is the chief operating officer. In the next 20 years, the five-square-mile, $4.3 billion planned community will take shape as a futuristic city—and Vanderbilt students… Read More

Hamilton Turner didn’t require much assistance while recruiting at the fall Engineering & IT Industry Career Day – the 2010 computer engineering alumnus knows his way around just fine. But his ties to Vanderbilt University run deeper than that. As a Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Tech, his doctoral adviser was… Read More

Read a wrap up of the Oct. 20 #AskVU Twitter Q&A on financial aid. Brent Tener, director of Vanderbilt’s Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships, and a team from the financial aid office answered questions about financial aid and scholarships on Twitter. John Gaines,… Read More

A Coursera student in India’s round trip of 16,716 miles began with an invitation to spend a summer in Nashville, Tennessee, as a computer science intern at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Wild Hundreds, the first book published by Nate Marshall, BA’12—much of it written while he was a Vanderbilt student—offers a portrait of life in West Pullman, his home town on the south side of Chicago. Chicago Magazine profiles Marshall in its October 2015 issue. Read More

An office/living room designed by Havenly that can be used for working or entertaining. (Julia Brenner/COURTESY OF HAVENLY) The Washington Post featured Havenly, co-founded by Emily Motayed, BA’10, and her sister Lee Mayer in the article “Two companies target millennials with quicker, more affordable design help.” Havenly… Read More

Five years after visiting Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, 20/20 Research CEO Jim Bryson, MBA’85, opened a school in Haiti this week, serving 31 kindergarten students. The school is near Cabaret, about 16 miles from Port-au-Prince, and the students are from nearby villages. Read More

Read the social media reaction to the Athletics’ drive to bring water and generators to those impacted by the South Caroline flood. Read More

Tori Trout smiled and chatted persistently, hour after hour, as hundreds of young engineering students lined up to listen to her pitch for working at Halma plc — the same pitch that convinced her just a year ago. Trout studied chemical engineering at Vanderbilt, graduated with her bachelor’s degree in… Read More

Two innovative but very different products designed by Vanderbilt University engineers are getting a financial push onto the market, thanks to National Science Foundation Accelerating Innovation Research–Technology Translation (AIR-TT) grants of about $200,000 each. Read More

Erin Elgass, a Blair Music Education major and an alto saxophone player, is the junior field commander for the Spirit of Gold Band. In the wake of the Commodores’ big win against Austin Peay, Elglass discusses perfecting the sound that rallied the Commodores to the victory. Read More

Jacob “Jake” Brewer, a White House senior policy adviser to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, died Sept. 19 in a collision with a car in Mount Airy, Maryland, while participating in a charity bicycle ride for cancer treatment programs. He was 34. Read More

New research shows that focusing on past behaviors is not always the best strategy to avoid repeating mistakes. Read More

Odie Blackmon, an adjunct professor in Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, is a Grammy-nominated, CMA-Award-winning songwriter that lives and learns in our music studios. The Hustler sat down with Blackmon to hear more about the Nashville songwriting business up close and personal. Read More

Charles King, BA’91, a top agent who has represented Oprah, Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry, has a vision for entertainment that is more multicultural and more digital. Read More