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The Choice: Meacham and Geer on 2024
The Choice, produced by the Dialogue Vanderbilt, is a four-part podcast focused on the key moments and ramifications of the 2024 presidential election between former president Donald J. Trump and current President Joseph R. Biden. Vanderbilt’s Jon Meacham and John Geer will blend history and political science to offer insights and context about this rematch of the 2020 presidential contest. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Study abroad in Africa: A renewed commitment to global experiences
Vanderbilt students want to engage with the world in meaningful ways, and the university is deeply committed to making global opportunities available to students. The Vanderbilt Study Abroad team is essential to those goals, and they recently hosted a workshop with the School for International Training aimed at reinvigorating engagement in study abroad in Africa. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Novel approach to safeguard patient data included among NSF-led National AI Research Resource Pilot
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy recently announced that a team comprised of Vanderbilt’s newly created ADVANCE center and VALIANT lab is among the first round of 35 projects that will be supported with computational time through the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Vanderbilt wins top awards at 2024 ARL Film Festival
Vanderbilt University and the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries won three awards at the ninth annual Association of Research Libraries Film Festival on May 8 at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The “ARLies” recognize excellence in multimedia projects that highlight library collections and their impact. This year’s festival featured 34 submissions from major research libraries across North America. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Duane Watson to lead startup of College of Connected Computing as vice provost for special initiatives
As vice provost for special initiatives, Watson will lead a multi-faceted effort to solidify the strategic underpinnings of the College of Connected Computing. He will also oversee the collaborative strategic planning for the college’s “hub and spoke” model, which aims to connect all computing-based scholarship in every college. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Thirty-three students named in the inaugural awarding of the Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award
The award, funded by the Enhanced Funding and Support Model for Doctoral Education, recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in areas such as publications, awards, patents and other forms of national/international distinction. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Heard Libraries’ research engagement collaborations bolster faculty scholarship
This collaboration highlights an important facet of the academic librarian’s role: leveraging research expertise to find and organize information and evaluate its quality, accuracy and validity to bolster faculty scholarship. In essence, librarians are information specialists who help to translate research into knowledge that has practical and far-reaching applications. Read MoreMay 16, 2024
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Trips to Italy, Israel highlight the benefits of Immersion Vanderbilt
Immersion Vanderbilt was created to provide new ways for students to develop better critical thinking skills and a stronger ability to navigate a changing world. Read MoreMay 15, 2024
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Vanderbilt scientists develop an algae time machine, advancing biomedicine
A Vanderbilt scientific team has succeeded in adjusting the daily biological clock of cyanobacteria, making the blue-green algae a more prolific producer of renewable fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, like insulin. Read MoreMay 14, 2024
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Innovative AI learning technology projects win inaugural LIVE Spark Grants
LIVE, the Learning Innovation Incubator at Vanderbilt University, has awarded the inaugural LIVE Spark Grants to three interdisciplinary teams innovating cutting-edge learning technologies that leverage AI to advance literacy, music education and aid in the care of people with dementia. Selected from a strong pool of applicants,… Read MoreMay 14, 2024
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Class of 2024 honors loved ones in “The hands that held our hands”
Watch members of Vanderbilt’s Class of 2024 tug at our heartstrings as they talk about the loved ones who’ve supported their dreams. Read MoreMay 13, 2024
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Vanderbilt joins Meharry Medical College, Fisk University in hosting Tri-Institutional Seminar series
A Tri-Institutional Seminar series has been initiated by the School of Medicine Basic Sciences, Meharry Medical College and Fisk University, focused on trainee development and promoting collaboration and existing ties between scientists affiliated with all three institutions. The series is open to the public. Read MoreMay 13, 2024
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VPA and history department examine how the New Deal was run
On May 3 and 4, the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation and the Vanderbilt University Department of History hosted “How the New Deal Was Run,” a conference about the implementation of the New Deal programs that transformed American life in the 1930s and beyond. Read MoreMay 13, 2024
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BMJ collaborates with Vanderbilt University’s Heard Libraries to support open access publishing
Leading global health care knowledge provider BMJ has signed a new read-and-publish agreement with the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University. The agreement allows Vanderbilt-affiliated corresponding authors to publish their primary research open access without incurring article processing charges. Read MoreMay 13, 2024
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Class of 2024 celebrated as extraordinary overcomers at Vanderbilt’s Commencement
WATCH: Hear why Vanderbilt's chancellor calls the Class of 2024 his "hero class" and see all the excitement and emotion at Commencement. Read MoreMay 10, 2024
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WATCH: Chancellor Daniel Diermeier’s 2024 Commencement Address
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier gives his farewell remarks to the Vanderbilt University Class of 2024. Read MoreMay 10, 2024
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Vanderbilt University honors emeritus and emerita faculty, one emeritus dean
Vanderbilt University honored 27 retiring faculty members and one dean for their years of service by bestowing upon them the title of emerita or emeritus faculty during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony on May 10 at GEODIS Park. Read MoreMay 10, 2024
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Vanderbilt researchers’ novel catheter-based technology to make endovascular procedures more efficient and safe
With hundreds of thousands of people in the United States having a stroke annually, Vanderbilt researchers are developing technology that could revolutionize the way blood clots are removed by allowing surgeons to complete the process more efficiently and safely. Read MoreMay 9, 2024
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Lau lab publishes authoritative reference article on the hallmarks of precancer
Ken Lau, professor of cell and developmental biology, and colleagues have laid out the principles governing the biology of early, precancerous lesions, which are different from the principles that govern cancers. Their authoritative perspective was published in Cancer Discovery in April 2024. Read MoreMay 9, 2024
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Clinton named 2024 Carnegie Fellow to study causes of political polarization
Josh Clinton, who holds the Abby and Jon Winkelried Chair and serves as professor of political science and co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, has been named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Foundation Fellow. He joins 27 other scholars nationwide being recognized for their research into the polarization of society and the fortification of our democracy. Read MoreMay 8, 2024