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Weird Science: Kit Parker’s Breakthrough Work on Artificial Hearts and Brain Injuries
Expect the unexpected when you walk into Kit Parker’s biophysics lab at Harvard. From cuttlefish skin camouflage to cotton candy machines used for wound dressings, his science is anything but ordinary. Read MoreNov 20, 2016
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A Letter to My Daughter: How we made our mark on women’s equity at Vanderbilt
This essay is adapted from The Long View: Essays, Poems, Stories (2015, Cordelia Hollis) by Susan Ford Wiltshire, Vanderbilt professor of classical studies, emerita. Wiltshire wrote this piece as a letter to her daughter, Carrie Wiltshire McCutcheon, JD’05, who is an attorney at Baker Donelson law firm in Nashville. Read MoreNov 20, 2016
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Living the Dream: How One Doctor’s Journey Has Spurred a Virtuous Cycle of Giving
Dr. Tiara Aldridge was able to pursue a Vanderbilt education—and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a physician—thanks in part to the Levy Scholarship. (JOE HOWELL) As a talented high school senior in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Tiara Aldridge, BA’10, MD’14, always dreamed of becoming a doctor one day. But… Read MoreNov 20, 2016
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Clock of Ages: 40 Years of Climbing Kirkland Tower, and Paul Young Keeps on Ticking
For the past 110 years, the hourly tolling of Kirkland Hall’s signature bell has alerted generations of students that they’ve overslept for economics class or that kickoff was imminent. And for more than a third of those 110 years, the task of keeping the tower’s clock ticking—and its 2,000-pound bell in good working order—has fallen to Paul Young. Read MoreNov 20, 2016
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The Science of Politics: Vanderbilt experts put their theories to the test in the 2016 election
To say that this has been a crazy year in politics is a laugh-out-loud understatement. We turn to the experts in Vanderbilt’s renowned political science department for insight not only into the 2016 presidential race, but also into the future of U.S. politics itself. Read MoreAug 10, 2016
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Strong Inside: Courted by athletic powerhouses nationwide, Perry Wallace, BE’70, chose Vanderbilt—and made SEC history
Each year Vanderbilt selects a book for all incoming first-year students to read during the summer before arriving on campus. This year’s selection is Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South by Andrew Maraniss, BA’92. Here we present an excerpt adapted from Strong Inside, which is currently being made into a documentary film and a children’s book. Read MoreAug 10, 2016
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Hoop Dreams: Two new Vanderbilt basketball coaches bring pro experience—and Indiana bona fides—to Memorial Gym
Vanderbilt begins a new chapter in its proud basketball tradition as Bryce Drew and Stephanie White take the helm of the men's and women's teams. Read MoreAug 10, 2016
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Hot Streak: Alumnus Temple Baker takes an unexpected career path after being discovered by director Richard Linklater
Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater cast Baker in his latest film, Everybody Wants Some!!—a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused—about a college baseball team in Texas in the ’80s. Read MoreJul 28, 2016
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Rising Star: Jedidah Isler Is Forging New Paths in Astrophysics—and Diversity Among Aspiring Scientists
Jedidah Isler, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in Vanderbilt’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, has emerged as an increasingly high-profile advocate for diversity among science, technology, engineering and mathematics researchers. Read MoreMay 12, 2016
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Policy Prescriptions: Melinda Buntin Brings Washington Expertise to Vanderbilt’s Department of Health Policy
With a greater focus on how the health care system functions, particularly in the wake of the 2009 Affordable Care Act, Vanderbilt has adjusted its own research and teaching programs surrounding public health and health policy. Read MoreMay 12, 2016
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Welcome to the Future: Can the World Restrain Its Thirst for Bioenhancement Technology Until Humanity Can Catch Up with Its Effects?
During the coming decades—probably a lot sooner than most people realize—the next great wave of technological change will wash over our lives. Its impact will be similar in sweep and rapidity to the advent of computers, cellphones and the Web, but this time around, it is not our gadgets that will be transformed—it is we ourselves, our bodies, our minds. Read MoreMay 12, 2016
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An Embarrassment of Riches: M.F.A. Program Nurtures Literary Talent
What’s remarkable about the M.F.A. program at Vanderbilt is that, although it’s among the best in the nation, it's not cutthroat like other highly regarded programs. In fact, Vanderbilt has adopted a model that seems the very opposite—one that fosters a tight-knit community based on feelings of cooperation and unity. Read MoreFeb 29, 2016
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A Plan for All Seasons: Vanderbilt Explores Land-Use Plan That Drives Its Mission
With the completion of several major projects in recent years like The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, the Student Life Center, Warren and Moore colleges—along with the new Engineering and Science Building, now nearing completion—Vice Chancellor for Administration Eric Kopstain says several factors make this is an ideal time to embark on a new land-use plan. Read MoreFeb 29, 2016
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Rocky Mountain Hi-Tech: Vanderbilt Helps Build a Sustainable City
Situated 20 miles southwest of Denver, and nestled between two state parks that offer stunning views of the Rocky Mountains, Sterling Ranch doesn’t look like much now. But during the next 20 years, the five-square-mile, $4.3 billion planned community will take shape as a futuristic city. Read MoreOct 23, 2015
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Vandy Goes Pro: Impressive Numbers of Commodores Are Playing on Professional Teams
Vanderbilt has always sent a handful of players to the major leagues, but in recent years there’s been a noticeable trend of more Commodores making it to the pros. Read MoreOct 23, 2015
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Special Delivery: VUMC Partners with Baby+Company to Open Nashville Birth Center
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 five freestanding birth centers across the U.S. Read MoreOct 23, 2015
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Thunder in the Mountains: Book Explores Clash between Two American Legends
Daniel Sharfstein's new book explores the clash between two important late-19th-century Americans: an army general from Maine named Oliver Otis Howard and a Nez Perce chief named Joseph, leader of a small band of Native Americans in far northeastern Oregon. Read MoreOct 23, 2015
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The Big Search: What It Takes to Find the Best Mix of Vanderbilt Students—with Care, Thought and Purpose
No longer content to live in the shadow of any other institution, today Vanderbilt vies for the absolute best students anywhere in the world, attracting them with academic, cultural and financial-aid offerings that make even the most determined Ivy aspirants think twice. Read MoreJul 31, 2015
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Everywhere @ Once: Oliver Luckett’s influence on social media reaches far and wide
A tireless entrepreneur, Luckett has made a career of diving headfirst into challenges, launching a string of tech startups all intent on shaking up the status quo in one way or another. His latest one, theAudience, is the world’s largest social media publishing company. Based in Los Angeles, it produces thousands of unique pieces of content on behalf of its clients each year. Read MoreMar 23, 2015
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All In: As veterans seek to enter the business world, Vanderbilt emerges as a leading choice
As more soldiers leave the military and seek to enter the business world, Vanderbilt has emerged not only as a leading choice by military students but as one of the elite B-schools that has embraced those students most enthusiastically. Read MoreMar 23, 2015