The Vanderbilt Story
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M.P.H. student working front lines of COVID-19 for Native Americans
Just a week into her position with the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Health Board, Tamee Livermont, a master of public health student who will graduate with the Class of 2020, was helping to lead the fight against the COVID-19 crisis. Read MoreApr 14, 2020
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Residential college connections stay strong online
Across Vanderbilt’s residential colleges, students, RAs and faculty heads of house are creating virtual spaces to share the highs and lows of transitioning to life away from campus. Read MoreApr 6, 2020
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Students have front-row seat for international climate change negotiations
As part of its continuing commitment to understanding and combating climate change issues through education and action, Vanderbilt University is now an accredited, official observer of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. Read MoreFeb 10, 2020
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Two Vanderbilt students ‘move mountains’ bringing education to war-torn Sudan
Peabody College students Ryan and Jazira Boyette have a goal of improving the lives of Sudan’s Nuba people through the power of education. Read MoreJan 31, 2020
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Music takes engineering major into the lab and across the country
When biomedical engineering major Brett Koolik first started learning piano as a child, he wasn't motivated solely by his love of music. He also wanted to figure out how a piano works. Read MoreDec 18, 2019
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Improving financial inclusion and community, one experience at a time
A student-led, university-supported initiative called Experience Vanderbilt is working to minimize the monetary constraints associated with participating in extracurriculars and create more financial inclusion at the university. Read MoreDec 2, 2019
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Engineering + empathy lead VU students to help kids with special needs
Inspired to make a child’s life better through engineering and design, students from Vanderbilt, occupational therapists and professional engineers worked for three days to build inventions that would make life a little easier for children with special needs at the third annual TOM Makeathon. Read MoreNov 18, 2019
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HOD major goes beyond her comfort zone for high-tech international immersion experience
HOD major Porter Geer wanted to be pushed out of her comfort zone, so she applied for an immersion experience at a Nashville start-up that specializes in using blockchain technology in health care. Read MoreNov 12, 2019
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Find Your Impact: English major mixes silly with serious in musical tackling climate change
Junior Foster Swartz is pursuing his passions for writing and directing with “Global Warming: The Musical,” which will be performed Oct. 11 and 12 in Sarratt Cinema. Read MoreOct 7, 2019
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Find Your Impact: HOD major expands music dreams with immersion capstone
Human and organizational development major William Hall is taking his music dreams to the next level with a capstone immersion experience at Nashville's acclaimed Blackbird Music Studio. Read MoreSep 9, 2019
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Nashville legend teaches Vanderbilt students the art of ‘slow fashion’
Vanderbilt students took a hands-on look at the history of fashion and sustainability with the help of Nashville fashion icon Manuel Cuevas, best known for creating couture "rhinestone cowboy" designs for Elvis, the Beatles, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and more. Read MoreAug 27, 2019
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Celebrate Vanderbilt Move-In 2019 at The Ingram Commons
Watch as the newest Vanderbilt students from the Class of 2023 join the amazing tradition of Move-In at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. Read MoreAug 19, 2019
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Vanderbilt students dive into U.K. theater world of ‘Harry Potter,’ Shakespeare
Earlier this summer, a group of Vanderbilt students immersed themselves in the world of "Harry Potter" and the thriving performing arts scenes of London and beyond in a special Maymester theater class. Read MoreJul 25, 2019
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‘Research squad’ propels student during two summer immersions
Chemistry major Puxin Xuanyuan put her creativity to work this summer while splitting time between an immersion experience at a medical biotech startup in Toronto and conducting cancer-fighting research on the Vanderbilt campus. Read MoreJul 19, 2019
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New dean of The Ingram Commons changing mindsets around math learning
Vanderbilt professor and Dean of The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons Melissa Gresalfi wants people to stop hating math. She's researching and teaching new ways to embrace the subject's potential for creativity. Read MoreJun 25, 2019
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Walking the red carpet at Cannes … for class credit!
A group of Vanderbilt students from a diverse array of majors took part in “the experience of a lifetime” when they participated in a faculty-led Maymester class that took them across France, including a stop at the Cannes Film Festival. Rising junior Caroline Crawford reflects on the experience. Read MoreJun 20, 2019
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Watch: Experience Vanderbilt in 360-degree virtual reality
Experience Vanderbilt University in 360 degrees using a virtual reality headset or the YouTube app on your smart phone (make sure to move your phone around!). Read MoreJun 4, 2019
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Recent Peabody graduate transforming lives of the sight-impaired
James Boehm, who earned a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Peabody College in May, turned a life-changing incident into a mission to help others recovering from traumatic injuries and blindness. Read MoreMay 29, 2019
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Student Athlete: The Graduates
For this installment of the student-athlete series, we take a look at three Class of 2019 seniors. Read MoreMay 17, 2019
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Happy Helping Others: Robby Perry, BE’19
From an Alternative Spring Break trip to renovate houses with Habitat for Humanity, to a Home Depot–sponsored web-coding hackathon, to a semester of study abroad that took him to cities such as Madrid, Marrakesh and Istanbul—Robby Perry’s time at Vanderbilt exemplifies just how much you can pack into four years. Read MoreApr 11, 2019