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A $30 million fundraising campaign is underway at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. It will support a four-floor building expansion that will help advance the size and scope of the hospital’s existing comprehensive and specialized pediatric health care programs. Read More

For Vanderbilt Divinity School alumni who run Nashville nonprofits, the need to serve the city’s underserved remains as great and as varied as ever. Read More

Amy Grant’s music is like a prism: multifaceted and capable of dazzling surprises at every turn. And just as with a prism, there’s something transformative about the way her music reveals its source of illumination. Her light, so to speak, comes not only from an abiding faith in God but from a belief in humanity’s goodness as well. Read More

According to Food Allergy Research and Education, about 1.5 million Americans have food allergies. They affect one in every 13 children under age 18 in the U.S.—or about two in every classroom. Experts differ on whether or not strong evidence exists that food allergies are increasing. Read More

The mission of Bryant's nonprofit organization, Black Girls Code, is to reach out to minority girls age 7 to 17 from all socioeconomic levels, and teach them about computer technology—from creating websites and writing computer applications to crafting computer games and working in robotics. Read More

What follows is a guide to some of the places that reflect the Vanderbilts’ enduring legacy. Numerous structures remain standing, many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, while others fell victim to the wrecking ball long ago. Still others live on, not because of any family connection, but because of the cachet of the Vanderbilt name itself. Read More

Bennett Landman, whose research lies at the interface of medical imaging, signal processing and statistical inference, has been focusing on large-scale medical image processing. Read More

Biomedical informatics is a science that draws connections between data and medicine, whether those data concern diseases, health care processes or human biology in the form of genomics and proteomics. Everyone who studies health records has the same goal: more precise medicine, leading to improved patient outcomes. Read More

Using the EHR (electronic health record) and natural language processing, the School of Medicine keeps track of each student’s exposure to patient problems across the curricular spectrum, allowing the school to advance students on a more individualized basis. Read More

Doug Parker, MBA'86, ascended to the top spot of the world’s largest airline following a 2013 merger between American Airlines and US Airways. His journey has been anything but a direct flight. Read More

Domonique Bragg and Cody Stothers were the first Vanderbilt students to participate in the university’s Aspirnaut educational outreach program. They’re also now the first students from that program to graduate. Read More

The Vanderbilt Transplant Center celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and it is achieving feats that were, not so long ago, the stuff of fantasies. In 2013 a record 403 transplants were performed, making the program the 13th-ranked transplant center in the country. Read More

Vanderbilt scientists have discovered a series of small molecules that may help unlock the mystery of schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that can cause disabling hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thinking. Read More

Academic studies are one thing—but how is Vanderbilt promoting sustainability in its own operations? Perhaps most visibly with a new solar-powered electric-vehicle charging station on 21st Avenue, a compost pile on Wedgewood Avenue, and nearly a dozen gorgeous, LEED-certified green buildings. Here are a few others you might not notice… Read More

Leslie Labruto Leslie Labruto’s career illustrates how a young civil environmental engineer can accommodate both her heart’s leaning and her tangible talents. Before she graduated from the School of Engineering with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 2011, Labruto’s studies and service work had… Read More

From corporate boardrooms to statehouse chambers to the halls of academe, sustainability is one of this century’s biggest challenges. Read More

Willie Geist is a natural on camera because he comes by it honestly. His father, Bill, is a longtime Emmy Award-winning correspondent for CBS News, and some of the younger Geist’s earliest memories have to do with his dad’s profession. Read More

Innovative Method Takes Aim at ‘Undruggable’ Proteins The fruitfulness of Vanderbilt’s drug-discovery effort depends in large part on its willingness to invest in research, infrastructure, and the collaborative nature of its scientists. There is no better example than Vanderbilt’s cancer drug-discovery program. Since he arrived at Vanderbilt in 2009, “we… Read More

Compounds Offer New Options for Diabetes Treatment One of the hottest areas of drug discovery involves the search for new treatments for diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders. Last year Vanderbilt signed a collaboration agreement with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for… Read More

‘Laboratory in a Box’ Conducts Thousands of Experiments Simultaneously David Weaver is out to help drug discovery “bloom” at Vanderbilt University. Weaver came to Vanderbilt in 2004 from the pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop and lead its High-Throughput Screening (HTS) facility, used today by about… Read More