Winter 2014
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The Original Cast
The Original Cast returned to stage for its fall revue, Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together. Read MoreMar 10, 2014
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How to Feed 1,600 Students
What sets Campus Dining’s fare apart is not just its deliciousness but its variety as well. The daily menus at The Commons Center are, in their own way, as expansive and sophisticated as the 115,000-square-foot, LEED-certified building itself. Read MoreMar 10, 2014
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Typical Campus Dining Menu
From seared salmon to mango pork stir fry, The Commons menu offers something for everyone. Read MoreMar 10, 2014
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Bonus Recipe: Campus Dining’s Wild Mushroom Risotto
Learn how Campus Dining makes its wild mushroom and herb risotto. Read MoreMar 10, 2014
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Distinguished Alumnus
Hal Moses, the Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and acting chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University, has been chosen to receive the highest honor conferred on members of the Vanderbilt alumni community: the Distinguished Alumni Award. Read MoreMar 10, 2014
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Jim Shepherd, BA’89
Jim Shepherd oversees earthquake repairs at the historic Washington National Cathedral. Read MoreMar 10, 2014
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From R&D to Rx
Vanderbilt scientists have discovered a series of small molecules that may help unlock the mystery of schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that can cause disabling hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thinking. Read MoreMar 7, 2014
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Walking the Talk
Academic studies are one thing—but how is Vanderbilt promoting sustainability in its own operations? Perhaps most visibly with a new solar-powered electric-vehicle charging station on 21st Avenue, a compost pile on Wedgewood Avenue, and nearly a dozen gorgeous, LEED-certified green buildings. Here are a few others you might not notice… Read MoreMar 7, 2014
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What One (Very) Young Alumna Can Do
Leslie Labruto Leslie Labruto’s career illustrates how a young civil environmental engineer can accommodate both her heart’s leaning and her tangible talents. Before she graduated from the School of Engineering with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 2011, Labruto’s studies and service work had… Read MoreMar 7, 2014
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Green, Clean & Lean
From corporate boardrooms to statehouse chambers to the halls of academe, sustainability is one of this century’s biggest challenges. Read MoreMar 7, 2014
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Morning Son: Willie Geist, BA’97, follows his father’s example to success on morning TV
Willie Geist is a natural on camera because he comes by it honestly. His father, Bill, is a longtime Emmy Award-winning correspondent for CBS News, and some of the younger Geist’s earliest memories have to do with his dad’s profession. Read MoreMar 7, 2014
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Study in Black and Gold
You could find a somber study carrel or park your posterior in your dorm room when duty calls. But the sun is out for a change, a mockingbird is trilling love songs on Magnolia Lawn, and over in the Baseball Glove Lounge, generations of students before you have already broken in those comfy-kitschy chairs. Read MoreMar 7, 2014
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Need to Know: Q&A with Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham, executive editor and executive vice president at Random House and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, joined the Vanderbilt faculty last summer with a three-year appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor. Read MoreMar 7, 2014
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Ties That Bind
My dad used to tell me I took things for granted, especially on my birthday or Christmas. I always thought he was just a party pooper. But of course, you should never ignore what a wise Chinese man has to say. Read MoreMar 6, 2014
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Cancer’s Holy Grail
Innovative Method Takes Aim at ‘Undruggable’ Proteins The fruitfulness of Vanderbilt’s drug-discovery effort depends in large part on its willingness to invest in research, infrastructure, and the collaborative nature of its scientists. There is no better example than Vanderbilt’s cancer drug-discovery program. Since he arrived at Vanderbilt in 2009, “we… Read MoreMar 6, 2014
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Appetite, Energy and Obesity
Compounds Offer New Options for Diabetes Treatment One of the hottest areas of drug discovery involves the search for new treatments for diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders. Last year Vanderbilt signed a collaboration agreement with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for… Read MoreMar 6, 2014
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Multitasking Microscope
‘Laboratory in a Box’ Conducts Thousands of Experiments Simultaneously David Weaver is out to help drug discovery “bloom” at Vanderbilt University. Weaver came to Vanderbilt in 2004 from the pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop and lead its High-Throughput Screening (HTS) facility, used today by about… Read MoreMar 6, 2014
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Remembrance of Lessons Past
When Blair Academy of Music first opened its doors in the fall of 1964, I was a violin student of Wilda Tinsley [MMus’43], having lessons in a beautiful old house on West End Avenue. I still remember my first lesson with Miss Tinsley at the new school on 18th Avenue. Read MoreMar 4, 2014