Vanderbilt Magazine
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Vanderbilt’s Fraley and Williams Officially Named to 2024 U.S. Olympic Team
Vanderbilt track and field graduate student Veronica Fraley and alumna Lily Williams are among the 592 athletes who will represent Team USA this summer at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Read MoreJul 26, 2024
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Olympic Aspirations, Lifelong Lessons
For NCAA champion and US Olympic team member Veronica Fraley and track and field alumna Beatrice Juskeviciute and Brooke Overholt, competing for country means being part of a community without borders Read MoreJul 26, 2024
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STARS College Network expands, creating more opportunities for rural and small-town students in higher education
The STARS College Network, a coalition formed in April 2023 by Vanderbilt University and 15 other prominent colleges and universities, will double in size after a year of landmark growth in creating opportunity for students from America’s small towns and rural communities. The coalition—which is dedicated to ensuring… Read MoreJul 24, 2024
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Tamara Baynham, BE’93: Finding Community, Advancing Innovation
Tamara Baynham, BE'93, an active, long-standing alumni leader across the university, including leadership roles as president of the Association of Vanderbilt Black Alumni, member of Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board and of the Engineering Board of Visitors, was inducted into the School of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Alumni in April. Read MoreJul 17, 2024
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Amanda Headley Piper, AuD’16: Sound Compassion
Amanda Headley Piper (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt University) “If you want to make a difference in the world, meet a need,” Amanda Headley Piper’s grandmother once said, and Piper heeded those words of wisdom. She is the first pediatric audiologist from her twin-island home of Trinidad and Tobago, where… Read MoreJul 17, 2024
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Sherry Chen, BA’15: Learning Experience for a Lifetime
A college education at a residential campus means more than a degree earned through successful completion of coursework and class projects. Student life beyond the classroom also provides a formative experience, and that is especially true for Sherry Chen, BA’15, who has served as president of the local Vanderbilt Chapter in Phoenix since 2018, connecting the community of Commodore alumni and parents. Read MoreJul 17, 2024
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Print Potential: The Sullivan Collection expands more than 100 years later
Because of a provision in a gift agreement to the Brooklyn Museum of Art made by philanthropist collectors George H. Sullivan and his mother, Mary Mildred Sullivan, in the early 20th century, nearly 3,400 prints are being added to Vanderbilt’s art collection after Brooklyn removed them from their collection in 2007. As they are researched and cataloged, these new works are initiating creative teaching, learning and exhibits with departments and colleges on campus and across Nashville. Read MoreJul 16, 2024
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New Facility Honors Legacy and History
Patti White, BA'76, and her husband, George, recently funded the Black Box Theater in Rothschild College to honor their children, Frances White, BA'11, and George A. White, BA'19. Read MoreJul 15, 2024
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Kevin and Gloria Churchwell honor parents Robert Sr. and Mary through undergraduate scholarship
To honor the legacy of Mary Churchwell and Robert Churchwell Sr., their son Kevin Churchwell, MD’87, and his wife, Gloria Respress-Churchwell, established the Robert Sr. and Mary Churchwell Undergraduate Scholarship, a fund that will provide generations of students with the gift his parents valued most of all: a Vanderbilt education. Read MoreJul 12, 2024
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Poet Stephanie Niu awarded 2024 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
A panel of jurists selected Niu’s I Would Define the Sun, a collection of poems about resisting scarcity through language. The inaugural prize drew more than 300 submissions and honors Vanderbilt University’s strong connection to the arts. Read MoreJul 9, 2024
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Mildred T. Stahlman, who pioneered the treatment of lung disease in premature infants and who was a tireless advocate of children of all ages, has died
Dr. Stahlman, professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, is credited with establishing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) the nation’s first newborn intensive care unit to use monitored respiratory therapy in babies born with damaged lungs. Read MoreJul 2, 2024
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Mitchell Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science, emeritus, has died
Mitchell A. Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science, professor of sociology, emeritus, and founder of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) Lab died June 1, 2024, in New York City. He was 78. Read MoreJun 25, 2024
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Civil rights icon and Distinguished Professor Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. dies at 95
The Rev. James Morris Lawson Jr., a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who trained scores of activists during his time in Nashville—many of whom went on to prominence—and whose expulsion from Vanderbilt in 1960 led to national headlines and prompted some faculty members to resign in protest, died Sunday, June 9, in Los Angeles. He was 95. Read MoreJun 11, 2024
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James Auer, founder of the Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation, has died
Auer, senior lecturer of Asian studies, emeritus, died May 16, 2024 at age 82, as a result of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Read MoreMay 28, 2024
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Celebrating Vanderbilt’s inspiring achievements during Sesquicentennial year
See some of the bold and collaborative actions Vanderbilt University accomplished this year an innovator and leader in solving the world’s most pressing challenges. Read MoreMay 23, 2024
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Envisioning Proteins: John Jumper, BS’07, uses AI to work on the “protein folding problem”
John Jumper, BS’07, is a senior staff research scientist for DeepMind, a London-based company that made a huge leap forward in solving the protein folding problem using artificial intelligence. Jumper's work is so significant that he was awarded the 2023 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Read MoreMay 17, 2024
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Forward Ever: Vanderbilt celebrates its past and present as it creates opportunities for a stellar future
In keeping with the Sesquicentennial spirit, we celebrate our past, present and future—from our important and long-standing function in the city of Nashville, to the holistic education and opportunities to innovate that our students receive from Immersion Vanderbilt, to our mastery of the cutting-edge technologies that will define our shared future. Read MoreMay 15, 2024
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Commodore City: Vanderbilt and Nashville continue their collegial relationship into the next 150 years
From arts to athletics to education and innovation, Vanderbilt has been a driving force in helping shape an ever-evolving Nashville into a dynamic, world-influencing city. Read MoreMay 15, 2024
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Genius at Work: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, 2023 MacArthur Fellow
A multidisciplinary artist from Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons creates installations that showcase her personal experiences as a Cuban woman as well as document displacement and inequality in the Caribbean. She was awarded a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship last October from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Read MoreMay 6, 2024
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Tapping Into The Past
With a prestigious new grant, archaeologist Ari Caramanica will explore what ancient people can teach us about dealing with the most pressing environmental issue of our time. Read MoreApr 25, 2024