MyVU News

More than 800 students, staff, faculty and others stopped by the Wond’ry April 19 to learn about FutureVU, Vanderbilt’s campus land use planning initiative, and how the university’s built environment might change over the next 20-30 years. Read More

The Office of the Vice Provost for Learning and Residential Affairs presented awards to six students at the Solar Eclipse Competitions Celebration April 17 at the Wond’ry. The celebration represents one of many campus events centered around the total solar eclipse that will occur later this year on Aug. 21. Read More

Rumay Alexander, interim chief diversity officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present a lunchtime lecture on Wednesday, May 3. Read More

Bara Cola, who went from equipment manager to starting fullback as a Vanderbilt undergraduate, has distinguished himself among the nation's top young engineers and researchers since his Commodore playing days. Last week, the National Science Foundation named Cola as an Alan T. Waterman Award recipient. Read More

Bright space, which will replace Blackboard as Vanderbilt’s course management system this summer, is now available for instructors planning their summer and fall courses. Read More

The Faculty Senate is conducting a survey to identify and address faculty levels of stress, burnout, well-being and resilience and to determine if available resources meet the needs of faculty. Read More

Sheila H. Ridner, the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, will be honored by Sigma Theta Tau International with induction into its International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be held in July in Dublin, Ireland. Read More

The exhibition's opening reception is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 11, in Cohen Memorial Hall and will be held in conjunction with the Department of History of Art's awards ceremony and celebration of graduates. Read More

Professor of English Mark Schoenfield, an expert on Romantic periodicals and culture, has been awarded a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in English literature. Read More

Vanderbilt fans will have a chance to mingle with Commodore coaches and chat about what's ahead for Vanderbilt athletics at stops across Middle Tennessee. Football coach Derek Mason, women's basketball coach Stephanie White, soccer coach Darren Ambrose and bowling coach John Williamson, among others, will be featured. Read More

In a battle of national collegiate tennis titans, the No. 5 Vanderbilt women's tennis team upset top-ranked Florida, 4-2, to earn the team's first-ever Southeastern Conference regular season championship. Read More

The event features 70 projects and gives teams of young engineers practice explaining their complicated work to a broad audience. Read More

Robert Fry, senior lecturer in music history and literature, is the recipient of the 2017 Vanderbilt Alumni Education Award. Read More

Vanderbilt dropped back-to-back games to Nebraska to finish in third place at the NCAA Bowling Championship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday. Read More

Vanderbilt news stories for the week of April 10 include how the musical 'Hamilton' has affected a popular course, as well as a 'Wall Street Journal' article noting Vanderbilt's salary equity among male and female full professors. Read More

With a goal of 5,000 donors in a single day, Giving Day 2017 offers the entire Vanderbilt community an opportunity to show their gold with gifts of any size to support the university areas that mean the most to them. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) now ranks No. 8 in the nation among U.S. medical schools in total grant support provided through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The new ranking raises VUSM’s standing two spots from the No. 10 position it held last year. Read More

Rachel Teukolsky, an English professor whose research bridges Victorian literature and the visual arts, has received a Summer Stipends award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read More

Former Commodore pitcher Donny Everett, who died in a drowning accident on June 2, 2016, will be honored before the start of the Vanderbilt versus Florida baseball game on Saturday, April 15, at Hawkins Field. Read More

Alumnus Jerry Wilmink discusses with Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos Wilmink's journey from engineer to entrepreneur and the deeply personal reason he launched his company. Read More