Issues

Marijuana's effects on the brain | Income inequality's impact on Americans' health | Evolutionary mismatch between humans, microbes | Music therapy for premature babies Read More

Dr. Robert Mahley recently received a $2.5 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to fast-track a drug that could neutralize the protein researchers believe is the genetic cause of Alzheimer’s disease—the apolipoprotein E4, or ApoE4. Read More

Four of the longest-running fundraisers for Vanderbilt University Medical Center are also local Nashville traditions. Iroquois Steeplechase, the Music City Tennis Invitational (MCTI), Eve of Janus and Christmas Village collectively have contributed more than $20 million to VUMC. Read More

Recently, Amy Christine Ellis was named a master of wine by the Institute of Masters of Wine—one of only 312 people to hold that title worldwide, and one of only 10 women in the United States. Read More

Piper Hendricks is founder and president of p.h. balanced films, a nonprofit organization that makes awareness-raising documentary films. Read More

Five years ago Washington, D.C., alumni began hosting Alternative Spring Break students for a potluck dinner while the students were in town for their projects. The gatherings—simply intended to connect similarly service-minded students and alumni—have spread nationally in popularity, as 13 chapters welcomed students for potlucks or game-watching parties in 2014. Read More

The Vanderbilt Alumni Association’s New York City Chapter brought together 84 alumni and guests in February for a technology entrepreneurship panel featuring alumni involved with six tech startup companies. Read More

Martha Stelling Christian of Fripp Island, S.C., died Oct. 22, 2013. She was 92. Read More

Fourth-generation engineer Wendell G. Anderson of Medford, N.J., died Dec. 22, 2013, at the age of 96. Read More

Roger Richman, a celebrity agent who represented the heirs of Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Mae West, Sigmund Freud, the Marx Brothers and many others, died Oct. 9, 2013, in Los Angeles. Read More

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded Vanderbilt University more than $1.475 million to form the Mellon Partners for Humanities Education initiative, a partnership with Tennessee State University, Tougaloo College and Berea College. Read More

If you look at the word “red” written in green letters, it is significantly easier to say “red” than it is to say “green.” That is the essence of the Stroop effect, which was discovered in the 1930s by John Ridley Stroop as part of his doctoral thesis at George Peabody College for Teachers. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony, which moved indoors this year because of rain, capped two days of activities for graduates and their guests. Read More

In 1988, Dr. William Frist and Dr. Harold Helderman are named surgical and medical directors of the newly developed Vanderbilt Transplant Center, centralizing transplant programs within a single entity. Read More

Doug Parker, MBA'86, ascended to the top spot of the world’s largest airline following a 2013 merger between American Airlines and US Airways. His journey has been anything but a direct flight. Read More

Domonique Bragg and Cody Stothers were the first Vanderbilt students to participate in the university’s Aspirnaut educational outreach program. They’re also now the first students from that program to graduate. Read More

The Vanderbilt Transplant Center celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and it is achieving feats that were, not so long ago, the stuff of fantasies. In 2013 a record 403 transplants were performed, making the program the 13th-ranked transplant center in the country. Read More

The Rites of Spring festival has been held on Vanderbilt's campus since 1971. See some of the photos that capture its history, from the early days of political protest to the music acts of 2014. Read More

When Sidney DeLair, BA'75, arrived home for his father's funeral, his mother pulled out a worn silver pocket watch and handed it to him. He already had been told the story behind the watch many times, and he loved what it represented. Read More

It was a special treat to find in your latest issue the article by Bronwen Dickey about her father, James Dickey, BA’49, MA’50. She nailed him and that entire era of Deliverance. Read More