Releases

Listening with charity is central to the mission of the New Jersey-based Reeves Foundation. Read More

The Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board of Directors is pleased to announce new leadership and the addition of eight new members. Patti White, BA’76, is president and Perry Brandt, BA’74, JD’77, is president-elect. New members include Ryan Grant, BS’01; Eileen C. Hart, BA’10, MSN’12; Larkin Martin, BA’85; Kate Morgan, BS’06; Alex Quintana, BA’05, MSF’06; Tim Warnock, BA’84; Valerie Williams, BE’95; and Justin Wood, BA’03, JD’06. Read More

James W. Barker, PhD'11, has been awarded the 2014 Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship. Barker, a visiting assistant professor of religion at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, was honored for his essay "Ancient Compositional Practices and the Gospels: A Reassessment." Read More

Christopher Serkin of Vanderbilt Law School has the "startling" opinion that government entities should be held legally responsible if they fail to make laws protecting the rights of property owners. Read More

Members of the classes of 2004 through 2013 have once again made Vanderbilt history by rising to the university’s challenge specifically for graduates of the last decade—the GOLD Challenge 2.0—and helping to secure another $100,000 gift to Opportunity Vanderbilt. Opportunity Vanderbilt is the university’s initiative to replace all need-based undergraduate… Read More

Two Vanderbilt engineers participated in the SmartAmerica Challenge EXPO in Washington D.C. Read More

Abby Shue of the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts is this year's recipient of a full-tuition scholarship at Vanderbilt University’s Executive MBA Program at the Owen Graduate School of Management designated for executives at not-for-profit organizations. Read More

Students are being asked to bring a winning personal touch to sales at The Cosmetic Market as one challenge at the Vanderbilt Accelerator Summer Business Institute Read More

It's a puzzler that political scientists want to understand and strategists want to exploit: Asian Americans lean decidedly to the Democratic Party, despite many factors that indicate they should be a natural fit for the Republicans. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are helping to develop software to secure the nation's computerized traffic control systems, both present and future, against cyberattacks. Read More

Ranga Ramanujam of Owen Graduate School of Management says General Motors faces “a tall order" moving forward in the wake of an internal report that found a “pattern of incompetence and neglect.” Read More

The International Speedway Corporation will hear from students at the Vanderbilt Accelerator Summer Business Institute with suggestions on getting millennials out of their living rooms and into NASCAR speedways. Read More

A new type of supercapacitor brings us a step closer to a day when everything from cell phones to electric vehicles will no longer need separate batteries. Read More

Vanderbilt astronomers have developed a model that predicts the effect that ingesting earth-like planets has on the chemical composition of stars like the Sun -- a capability that can aid in efforts to find Earth-like exoplanets. Read More

The job market is strong for top tier MBA graduates, especially if they’re interested in the technology industry. Read More

PLEASE NOTE: Commencement has been moved to Memorial Gym due to inclement weather. Read More

Algorithms able to execute tens of thousands of trades in just fractions of a second are responsible for more than 70 percent of all equity trading volume in the United States. Read More

A Vanderbilt graduate student has used a focused beam of electrons to create some of the smallest nanowires ever made, which could bring us closer to flexible, paper-thin tablets and television displays. Read More

Cougars may have survived a mass extinction that took place about 12,000 years ago because they were not particular about what they ate. Read More

If you want to be perceived as a leader, new research from Vanderbilt University suggests investing in the latest technological gadgets is the way to go. Read More