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Eighteen months since taking office, Mayor Freddie O’Connell continues to enjoy broad public approval. The 2025 Vanderbilt Poll–Nashville found his favorability among Nashville residents at 67 percent—a very high level of approval for any elected politician that underscores the success of his first year and a half in office. O’Connell’s positive assessment aligns with the emerging consensus that Nashville is headed in a better direction than it was a few years ago.  Read More

Eight exceptional Vanderbilt students are embarking on transformative global journeys as this year’s cohort of the Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship program. Read More

First View, a summer transition program designed to support first-generation college students as they begin their journey at Vanderbilt, debuted last summer. Read More

Moments before James Patterson and Patrick Leddin took the stage, the Langford Auditorium went dark. A campus-wide power outage was the culprit, but cancelling the event wasn’t in the cards. Instead, prolific author Patterson and associate professor Leddin used the circumstances to their advantage — they were, after… Read More

Langford Auditorium at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was brimming with excitement and anticipation Friday, March 21, as 80 graduates of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine took turns opening their envelopes on the big stage and announcing the next stop on their medical careers: residency training. The National Resident Matching Program reports that this year’s Match — the process of matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors — had an all-time record for applicant participation. Read More

After a rigorous nomination and review process, Lisa M. Monteggia and Matthew J. Tyska are among the 471 scientists elected as 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dean of School of Medicine Basic Sciences John Kuriyan was also recently elected a member of the 2025 class of fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research academy. Read More

What if AI could fight fires? The first Nashville Tech Studio grant awarded by the Nashville Innovation Alliance fosters a collaboration between the Nashville Fire Department and Vanderbilt University that will analyze data to help allocate resources, determine optimal staffing levels and even predict future incidents.   Read More

James Kellerhouse is the Division of Administration’s new assistant vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and executive director of operations and engagement for Vanderbilt University–New York City. The appointment marks a significant step in Vanderbilt’s efforts to expand its presence in one of the metropolitan and business capitals of the world. Read More

Gary Sinise, humanitarian, actor and musician, will receive Vanderbilt University’s prestigious Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal when he speaks at the university’s 2025 Commencement activities. Sinise’s Graduates Day address will be on May 8 at 11 a.m. at the David Williams II Recreation and Wellness Center Indoor Practice Facility. Read More

Matthew Johnson-Roberson, a visionary technology scholar and highly accomplished academic leader, will be the inaugural dean of Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing, the university’s first new college to be established in more than 40 years, C. Cybele Raver, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, announced today. His appointment begins May 1, 2025.  Read More

Our world is constantly evolving, and the ability to embrace the disruption that arises from change can be the key to unlocking new opportunities and achieving personal growth. That’s the premise behind Disrupt Everything, a new book by acclaimed author and Vanderbilt alum James Patterson and associate professor Patrick Leddin. Together, the authors will discuss the idea behind positive disruption during a book event at Langford Auditorium on March 26 at 7 p.m. Read More

Nearly 150 parent and alumni leaders gathered on campus Feb. 28 and March 1 for Vanderbilt’s eighth annual Volunteer Leadership Weekend. Attendees of the weekend events included representatives from many alumni and parent groups across the university. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing has received a transformational $25 million commitment from trustee John Arnold, BA’95, and his wife, Laura Arnold, to provide foundational support for the college’s faculty leadership, teaching and initiatives that fuel real-world impact. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School has received a gift from the Anbridge Charitable Fund to endow the creation of The Gail Anderson Cañizares Innocence Clinic, which will support the exoneration of wrongfully convicted individuals in Tennessee while providing students with hands-on case experience. The clinic, which will function as a course available to 2L and 3L students, launches in the 2026 spring semester and will coordinate with the Tennessee Innocence Project to source cases. Read More

Major Jackson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities, has been awarded the inaugural Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry by Yale Library. Jackson was recognized for his acclaimed collection Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002–2022, published by W.W. Norton in 2023.   Read More

Vanderbilt University and Special Olympics Tennessee announced this week that they have partnered to place a bid to host the 2030 SPecial Olympics USA Games. After four years of going through the bid process, the Special Olympics has narrowed its 2030 site search down to either Nashville or Cleveland, Ohio. Read More

Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers who stand out as the next generation of leaders for their creativity, innovation and research accomplishments. Tiriac, an assistant professor of biological sciences and Hooley Family Dean's Faculty Fellow in Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt, is part of the 2025 class. Read More

Aneesh Sohoni Aneesh Sohoni, MPP’13, will become chief executive officer of Teach for America beginning April 15. Sohoni has held several education leadership positions of increasing responsibility since earning his master of public policy in education policy at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

As Vanderbilt University continues to partner with the Palm Beach region to explore the potential for a campus in West Palm Beach, the university released artist renderings of its planned West Palm Beach Campus. Read More