The Vanderbilt Story
-
New faculty: Thomas Wang brings patient-oriented approach to cardiovascular research
Thomas Wang was born in Boston, raised in Boston and educated in Boston. But Vanderbilt's emphasis on personalized medicine in both research and clinical implementation lured him to Nashville. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
New faculty: Kristin Michelitch investigates political barriers to international development
Kristin Michelitch is on the vanguard of the movement that seeks to ensure that money spent on aid to developing countries achieves its intended goals. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
New faculty: Todd Monroe explores how neurobiology can better guide pain management
When Todd Monroe’s grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer late in the course of her dementia, the nursing home staff caring for her struggled to assess her pain. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
New faculty: Award-winning author Lorrie Moore will balance writing and teaching at Vanderbilt
Lorrie Moore, a distinguished American fiction writer who was a 2012 Chancellor’s Lecturer at Vanderbilt, has kept the corner of her eye on the university’s storied English department over the years. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
New faculty: John Wilson uses synthetic vaccines to further the fight against diseases
Growing up close to nature in the small timber-and-fishing community of Gold Beach, Ore.—population 2,000—gave John Wilson an early interest in biology and biologically inspired design. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
New faculty: Lauren Parker Jackson, BS’03, examines the movement of protein molecules within cells
Lauren Parker Jackson learned the difficult and demanding art of X-ray crystallography in the Cambridge University lab where it was invented. She brings her expertise to Vanderbilt, where she will continue her research in protein trafficking. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
New faculty: Kevin Murphy looks for reflections of history in architecture
One of the first things Kevin Murphy did after accepting the offer to join Vanderbilt’s history of art department was explore Nashville’s historic neighborhoods. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
New faculty: Catherine Lee enjoys solving accounting puzzles
Sifting through a logical process is appealing to Catherine Farmer Lee. “For me, research is thinking about why the puzzle pieces are shaped the way they are, then picking one piece to thoroughly study,” she said. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
New faculty: Carwil Bjork-James examines political protest and the protest experience
Carwil Bjork-James’ research pertains to South America, but on an August afternoon a week before the fall semester started, his thoughts were on Egypt, where the death toll was still rising after a violent crackdown on anti-government protestors in Cairo. Read MoreOct 7, 2013
-
Commodore Quake, Homecoming banners, fall weather among our favorite Vandygrams
[View the story "Our favorite Vandygrams of the week" on Storify]… Read MoreOct 4, 2013
-
VUCast: Vandy’s closeup in hit show Nashville
Vandy’s supporting role in hit show Nashville Who is that with actor Alan Alda? And the sound of music for the Mighty Sky All this and more in VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreOct 2, 2013
-
Student Organization Spotlight: Vanderbilt GlobeMed
The Vanderbilt chapter of GlobeMed was founded three years ago to pursue the national organization’s goal of global health equity. With 35 current members, the group works to provide health care services to a local clinic in Paracas, Peru. GlobeMed requires each university chapter to partner with a unique organization. Read MoreSep 26, 2013
-
Vanderbilt students, on the record
On Oct. 14, Vanderbilt students will finally join neighboring universities like Belmont and MTSU in providing opportunities for students to gain experience in the commercial music industry. Founded under the umbrella of Vanderbilt Student Communications is a new media enterprise: RVU Records, a record label and recording studio that will… Read MoreSep 26, 2013
-
Spanish course connects students to local Latino community
What began in 2000 as an effort to fuse community service and academics has now evolved into a popular course in the Spanish department: Spanish for Oral Communication through Cultural Topics. To date, 695 undergraduates have taken Senior Lecturer Elena Olazagasti-Segovia’s Spanish 202 course, which focuses on connecting students to… Read MoreSep 25, 2013
-
On Track — How Kristen Findley, BE’13, Found Her Stride
If Kristen Findley had gotten her wish, she might never have set foot on a track, or at least not to compete. Growing up near the snow-capped mountains of Boise, Idaho, she dreamt of becoming a downhill skier one day. She was so taken with the idea, just about the… Read MoreSep 24, 2013
-
Pig and Plume: A student’s award-winning short story
Will Tarnell is a junior economics and history major from Westwood, Mass. This excerpt is from his short story “Pig and Plume,” his entry competing for the 2013 Dell Magazines Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. He won honorable mention. Read MoreSep 23, 2013
-
The College Choice: First-year student and New York Times blogger shares his story
The process of applying to college is memorable for many reasons — filling out pages and pages of applications, nervously waiting to hear back from admissions offices, making difficult decisions — but for freshman Bryan Stromer, there was an added layer: He blogged about his experience for one of the… Read MoreSep 16, 2013
-
Groomed for Success: High energy neurosurgeon combines love of barns and brains
Drive about 20 miles west of Nashville on I-40, wind around on some country roads, turn up the shady lane marked Aden Branch Farm, pass the two-room, pre-Civil War-era log cabin and pull up at the barn. This is where Lola Chambless, M.D., ’05, trades her blue cotton scrubs for… Read MoreSep 6, 2013
-
Play Nation — Vanderbilt alumni are making waves in the video game industry
Forty years after Atari’s digital table tennis game Pong bleeped onto the scene and made video games mainstream entertainment, we’ve become a nation of video gamers. We’re playing games on phones, tablets, computers, game consoles, social networks, and even TVs connected directly to the Internet. Read MoreSep 6, 2013
-
Leap of Faith — A small group of unconventional students makes a big impact on the campus community
Although Crystal Finley, BS’13, entered Vanderbilt with a clear plan for success, her life mission would soon change when she became a volunteer mentor with Next Steps at Vanderbilt, a postsecondary program for students with intellectual or other disabilities. Read MoreSep 4, 2013