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The Vanderbilt student rocket team collected two key awards in NASA’s Student Launch Challenge following a near flawless flight April 16 at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama. Read More

For Ariel Helms, a genealogy search when she was young revealed a long-kept secret: Her ancestors were Cherokee Native Americans. Read More

For Rani Banjarian, the summer of 2006 was the defining moment of his young life. For a month that summer, artillery and airstrikes were a daily occurrence as the unrest between his home country of Lebanon and neighboring Israel grew into the July War. Read More

The eminent Vanderbilt psychologist Gordon Logan has been elected as a new member of one of the nation’s oldest learned societies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read More

Vanderbilt professor Douglas Perkins has been named among the Society for Community Research and Action’s 2015-16 award recipients. Read More

Vanderbilt University Theatre students will perform three original shows including an honors project by award-winning playwright Nick Mecikalski April 21-23 at Neely Auditorium. Read More

Ten international scholars wrapped up their 10-month fellowship with a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. Read More

Help us spread the word about Giving Day by turning your social media accounts gold. Change your Facebook profile image and cover image—we provide the resources. #give4thegold Read More

The Vanderbilt community had the opportunity to interact with regional transit officials on efforts to ease traffic congestion and improve public transportation during a discussion April 14 at Vanderbilt’s Student Life Center. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos was the keynote speaker during Fisk University's Honors Convocation April 7 in Fisk Memorial Chapel. Read More

Antonio Villaseñor-Marchal, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology, has won this year’s Native American Graduate Archaeology Scholarship from the Society of American Archaeology. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will host a roundtable May 2 exploring the U.S. Supreme Court’s current vacancy and the controversy surrounding the nomination of a new justice. Fox News' Andrew Napolitano, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, and Vanderbilt's Jon Meacham and Audrey Anderson will participate in the discussion beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Vanderbilt's first-ever Giving Day is this week. Join your fellow faculty and staff on Thursday, April 21, in celebrating all things gold by making a gift and spreading the word about this new golden tradition. #give4thegold Read More

This photo of the dogwoods near Benson Hall is among our favorite #vandygram images of the week. Read More

Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center will jointly host the 2016 Employee Appreciation Picnic May 13 and 17, with off-campus deliveries scheduled for May 12 and 13. Read More

Vanderbilt's Marc Hetherington will be awarded the Alexander L. George Book Award at the July meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology. Read More

Mark Wait, the Martha Rivers Ingram Dean of the Blair School of Music, writes, "Trends in classical music, as in any other field, will come and go, but serious music is present in all ages, and in all places – including right now in Nashville." Read More

The Center for Teaching announces information for Blackboard users that includes upcoming demos by course management vendors, changes to the course availability and deletion policy, and a system upgrade. Read More

An anonymous donor has pledged $5 million to establish the Dean’s Chair in Engineering at Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced at the school’s annual distinguished alumni celebration dinner April 14. Read More

Artists and social justice activists will come together at Vanderbilt Divinity School for an April 22–23 public conference to consider best practices and performances to create equitable change in Nashville. Read More