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Mariam Adam puts a priority in her work on innovative musical collaborations that benefit her students while building a legacy to be discovered by future generations. The assistant professor of clarinet is a fierce advocate for music education who has performed with such greats as Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Read More

This spring, the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center to honor six individuals from the Vanderbilt community during its annual awards. Read More

The third annual Honors Banquet commemorated excellence in academics, leadership and innovation among Graduate School students and faculty. On March 20, the banquet was held to honor and reflect on remarkable achievements in research and creative expression from the more than 50 graduate programs and departments represented in the Graduate School. Read More

Bennett Landman who holds a Stevenson Chair, has more than 2,000 collaborations globally that look at all sorts of different diseases, from the head down to the shins. But the heart of his work remains medicine and the promise of a world where AI-driven imaging leads to earlier diagnoses and better patient outcomes. Read More

2025 Commencement events are May 8–9 and volunteers are needed to celebrate our graduates and their families. Opportunities are available on Thursday, May 8, for Graduates Day and Commencement Celebration at the David Williams II Recreation and Wellness Center and Friday, May 9 for Commencement at GEODIS Park. Read More

The U.K.-based Biochemical Society and Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have announced a read-and-publish agreement to support the open sharing of research and knowledge across the molecular biosciences. This agreement enables Vanderbilt-affiliated authors to maximize the readership, dissemination and citation of their research through the guarantee of uncapped, fee-free open access publishing in journals published by Portland Press, the Biochemical Society’s publishing arm. Read More

Giving Day and I⚓VU Week 2025 are in the books! More than 6,900 members of the Vanderbilt community—alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends—gave more than $12.2 million. Chancellor Daniel Diermeier offers sincere gratitude on behalf of everyone at the university. Read More

Vanderbilt University's College Republicans and Democrats came together for an Insight Debate on the intersection of faith and governance, exemplifying the school's commitment to “dialogue across difference" in pursuit of understanding.  Read More

The Student Care Network, in partnership with the Office of Faculty Development and AdvancED, is excited to announce the launch of the CARE Fellows program — an enriching opportunity for faculty members dedicated to enhancing student well-being and fostering a supportive campus environment. Participants will receive a $1,000 stipend (subject to tax). Read More

Vanderbilt University is launching the Provost Discovery Bridge Funding Program to provide short-term financial support ranging from three to six months to faculty researchers affected by stop work or termination orders for research they were doing with federal support. Read More

In this episode of Quantum Potential, Felipe Barrera-Osorio joins Provost C. Cybele Raver to discuss his groundbreaking research—comparing the impact of need-based versus merit-based micro-scholarship programs in rural, low-income communities in Cambodia, Colombia and Mexico. He explains how these programs were so successful that national governments around the world expanded investments in education. Read More

Radical collaboration is the driving vision for the state-of the-art science building planned for the current site of Stevenson Center 6. The new building will be a shared space for the College of Arts and Science, the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine Basic Sciences; it will address the growing need for updated, accessible and sustainable facilities that offer space for an open exchange of ideas. Read More

To help you make the best commute decision for your needs, the university has numerous resources to customize your commute plan. Learn more about next academic year’s parking rates and commute benefits. Read More

Find out why Class of 2025 student Maya Mueller traveled to Tanzania and see what a banana costume had to do with overcoming stage fright for this clarinet performance major. Read More

The Curb Center at Vanderbilt and Belmont University are sponsoring composer and musician Hannibal Lokumbe’s visit to Nashville this April. He will be speaking with courses, giving a talk alongside his biographer Lauren Coyle Rosen, and working with the Vanderbilt 16 on their performance of two movements of his piece “In The Spirit of Being.”  Read More

New work from the Castiglione lab and that of collaborator, Elia Duh (Johns Hopkins), is shaping the way is shaping the way we understand the evolutionary limits of energy production. He discovered that the horse, an oft-studied, physiological powerhouse, evolved an enigmatic and ancient mutation that enables horses and their relatives to produce extreme amounts of energy while avoiding deleterious side effects. Read More

Read the stories of what motivates members of Vanderbilt's faculty to pursue excellence as researchers, professors, experts and innovators. Read More

Understanding how proteins get from point A to point B is top of mind for Stephanie Wankowicz, assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics and principal investigator at the Wankowicz lab. She conducts research on how entropy, a measure of the tendency toward disorder or randomness within a system, shifts when a protein binds to a drug or another protein. Now, her work is being shared through the diffUSE project, a new multi-institutional collaboration focused on reshaping the future of structural biology by moving beyond traditional “snapshot” views of proteins to reveal their full dynamic motions. Read More

As Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Physics and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Julia Velkovska studies the tiny particles that form our universe. She focuses on how nuclear matter behaves when confronted with extreme density and temperatures (think trillions of degrees)—similar to the conditions existing microseconds after the big bang, right as the universe was starting to take shape. Just this year, Velkovska and her team of physicists were awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, along with 13,508 colleagues across four landmark CERN experiments. The prize honors decades of work expanding our understanding of the physical universe. Read More

Eleven Vanderbilt students are engaging in cutting-edge national security research through a new, dynamic partnership between Immersion Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt Institute of National Security. This partnership emphasizes the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of Immersion Vanderbilt and supports the Institute of National Security’s mission of developing the next generation of national security leaders. Read More