MyVU News
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Metro students make bicycle models with high-tech tools
Thirteen Nashville public high school students are spending their summer mornings on the Vanderbilt campus building bicycle models using software tools developed to revolutionize the manufacturing of military vehicles. Read MoreJun 18, 2014
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Children face heat stroke danger as outside temperatures rise
With temperatures rising in Middle Tennessee, safety experts at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt stress the danger of leaving children unattended in vehicles. Read MoreJun 17, 2014
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Commodores play in College World Series today
Commodores are within a win of next week's championship round. Read MoreJun 17, 2014
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Consumers like a ‘partner in crime’ whether they indulge or resist temptation
People are natural accomplices who like to conspire together to enjoy a small indulgence, and conversely to resist temptation together when the stakes are higher, finds Associate Professor of Marketing Kelly L. Haws in a new study. Read MoreJun 17, 2014
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My VU Benefits website will experience outage June 21-22
Due to planned upgrades, Vanderbilt’s benefits enrollment website, My VU Benefits, will be unavailable June 21-22. Read MoreJun 16, 2014
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Open houses set for Warren and Moore Colleges
Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students will have the opportunity to get a firsthand look at Warren and Moore colleges at a series of open houses scheduled in June and July. Read MoreJun 16, 2014
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Commodores win opener at College World Series
Vanderbilt advanced to the winner's bracket at the College World Series Saturday with a 5-3 win over Louisville. Read MoreJun 16, 2014
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Grit better than GRE for predicting grad student success
New findings suggest interviews are better predictors of graduate STEM program completion than test scores and would increase participation by women and minorities. Read MoreJun 12, 2014
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Elsie Quarterman, who rediscovered Tennessee coneflower, dies at 103
Elsie Quarterman, the first woman to serve as an academic department chair at Vanderbilt and who is best known for her work on the ecology of Tennessee cedar glades, has died. Read MoreJun 12, 2014
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‘Fight for Freedom’ exhibition opens at Vanderbilt Heard Central Library
Vanderbilt Central Library shares stories of journalists and others who put their lives on the line for freedom in a new exhibition open to the public. Read MoreJun 11, 2014
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Jones receives USAC’s Karen Dolan Spirit Award
Eric Jones, treasurer of the University Staff Advisory Council and a longtime member, has been honored with the 2014 Karen Dolan Spirit Award. Read MoreJun 11, 2014
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Tips for reducing your summer travel impact
Vacation season is here, and you can reduce your environmental impact - and save money - with these handy, sustainable travel tips. Read MoreJun 10, 2014
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Children’s Hospital again named among nation’s best
The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt was named among the nation’s best children’s hospitals for the eighth consecutive year in "U.S. News & World Report’s" annual rankings released this week. Read MoreJun 10, 2014
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VUCast: Pet Partners
In the latest VUCast: Learn more about the special role animals are playing for kids fighting cancer; find out how the sun could eat the Earth - and why it hasn't already; and see who you might know in our social media mashup. Watch now. Read MoreJun 10, 2014
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Is ‘No Child Left Behind’ getting a bad rap?
A new Vanderbilt study is dispelling the notion that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has eroded teacher job satisfaction and undermined job retention. Read MoreJun 10, 2014
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Commodores advance to College World Series
Vanderbilt clinched a spot in the College World Series Sunday by posting a 12-5 victory over Stanford in Game 3 of the Super Regional before a sold-out, mostly Commodore-crazed crowd. Read MoreJun 9, 2014
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A different D-Day would have meant a different world today
The world would now be a very different place if D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, had gone badly, says Thomas Schwartz, professor of history. Read MoreJun 6, 2014
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McDowell, former Vanderbilt administrator, dies
Donald L. McDowell, a Vanderbilt University administrator during the tenure of Chancellor Alexander Heard, died May 27 in Yarmouth, Maine. Read MoreJun 5, 2014
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Commodores will host Stanford in baseball Super Regional
Vanderbilt is hosting the 2014 Nashville Super Regional at Hawkins Field against Stanford June 6-8. Read MoreJun 3, 2014
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Vanderbilt to host NEH-supported institute on digital humanities
Scholars from across the United States and abroad will be at Vanderbilt University June 9-20 to improve their skills in building projects in the digital humanities. Read MoreJun 2, 2014