MyVU News

Vanderbilt education experts gathered for “Standards and Testing: What’s Missing from the Current Debate,” a panel discussion held March 9 at the downtown Nashville Public Library. Read More

"The Madonnas of Echo Park" by Brando Skyhorse has been selected as the next Commons Reading, an annual tradition for incoming first-year students. Read More

"Re-Visioning Justice in America," an April 17-19 public conference on prison reform sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School's Cal Turner Program, will feature keynote talks by Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson and Howard Zehr. Read More

Vanderbilt and the Waters Centers of Innovation Program are sponsoring a free symposium titled "Integrated 'Omics in Translational Medicine" on March 23. It is open to all scientists interested in the subject. Read More

Vanderbilt's School of Nursing and Peabody College of education and human development fared well in this year's "U.S. News & World Report" rankings. Read More

Vanderbilt University researchers took a significant step toward answering longstanding questions about the origins of consciousness with a recent discovery of global changes in how brain areas communicate with one another during awareness. Read More

The new Callie House Research Center for the Study of Black Cultures and Politics, named for a former slave who led a group for reparations, will be celebrated March 12 with the inaugural lecture by Mary Frances Berry. Read More

Months of cold and sometimes icy and snowy weather can take a toll on our skin—but a Vanderbilt dermatologist says there are ways to protect it from the ravages of a lingering winter. Read More

The March 10 test of AlertVU, Vanderbilt University’s emergency mass notification system, has been rescheduled for the fall 2015 semester. But you can update your point-of-contact settings in the AlertVU system now. Read More

"Memento Mori: Looking at Death in Art and Illustration," opening March 12 at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, was curated using an interdisciplinary approach to provoke thought about the role of death and mourning in society from the 16th century to the present. Read More

National rankings of hospitals are more confusing than helpful when you compare them to one another, according to a new study. Read More

Volunteers are still needed for Commencement 2015, a three-day celebration for graduates and their families. Read More

Nashville remains under a Winter Storm Warning until noon. Vanderbilt's Emergency Operations Center advises taking precautions when traveling to or on campus. Read More

Lewis Baldwin, an emeritus religious studies professor who has dedicated his teaching and research to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., will be in Selma, Alabama, March 6 for the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Read More

Three leading education research scholars will speak at the Peabody Research Institute’s spring mini-conference. Read More

A globally recognized polymer sciences researcher will deliver the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture March 30. Read More

When Daylight Saving Time takes effect on Sunday, March 8, it doesn’t have to mean a miserably groggy Monday morning. Start planning now to ease your body into the transition, says Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center specialist Kelly Brown. Read More

It's important to regularly update your settings in the AlertVU system to ensure you are receiving emergency messages on the device of your choosing. Read More

A new brain imaging study challenges conventional wisdom about how and where in the brain the processing of visual orientation information first occurs. Read More

As of Friday, Feb. 27, Vanderbilt IT and its partners have successfully restored 119 websites and Web services affected by the Feb. 23 outage. Read More