Arts And Science
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Tennessee stands at a political crossroads: Vanderbilt Poll
Despite opportunities for broad consensus, Tennessee’s long history of pragmatic politics could be affected by rising polarization along party lines, according to the most recent statewide Vanderbilt University Poll. Read MoreJun 6, 2019
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Provost announces leadership positions for Beasley, George
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente has announced new appointments for Vanessa Beasley and Tracey George as part of leadership promotions and reorganizations within the provost’s offices. Read MoreJun 5, 2019
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Bartels elected to American Philosophical Society
Larry Bartels, May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science and co-director of Vanderbilt’s Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, has been elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. Read MoreJun 3, 2019
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Researchers by day, rockers by night, biofunkiest engineers hit the airwaves
The Vanderbilt Initiative of Biofunky Engineers, or VIBE, began performing together in 2017 and have played a handful of gigs, including the biomedical engineering department’s holiday party. Last week they took to the airwaves of Radio Free Nashville. Read MoreMay 31, 2019
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Limited submission opportunity: Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowships
Vanderbilt University may submit one nomination to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowships. New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest. Read MoreMay 30, 2019
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Study: Continuity, not change, marked President Trump’s first year
An empirical analysis of executive actions taken during President Trump's first year shows that while he focused more on immigration and deregulation than previous presidents, his use of unilateralism was largely in line with his predecessors. Read MoreMay 29, 2019
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Sheree C. Wright among ‘Best of the Bar’ honorees
Sheree C. Wright has been named to the Nashville Business Journal’s 2019 “Best of the Bar” in the category of corporate counsel. Read MoreMay 29, 2019
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Inaugural Alzheimer’s Disease Research Day draws crowd for talks, posters, data blitzes
Vanderbilt's inaugural Alzheimer’s Disease Research Day drew more than 100 attendees to hear faculty lectures on subjects ranging from diet to brain modeling, take in short “data blitzes” on individual areas of research, and visit a 35-station poster session. Read MoreMay 28, 2019
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Stassun appointed to Astro2020 Steering Committee
Vanderbilt University astrophysicist Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was named Tuesday to the National Academies’ Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020) Steering Committee. Read MoreMay 22, 2019
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Fort Negley receives international recognition thanks to the work of Vanderbilt scholars
As communities throughout the South struggle to determine appropriate ways of recognizing Civil War history, Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, and Postdoctoral Fellow Angela Sutton have worked to draw attention to Fort Negley as a site that teaches the tragedy of slavery as well as celebrates the contributions of free and enslaved black people to Nashville and the nation’s history. Read MoreMay 22, 2019
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Life in evolution’s fast lane
A group of budding yeasts in the genus Hanseniaspora, which is closely related to the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has lost large numbers of genes related to cell cycle and DNA repair processes. Read MoreMay 21, 2019
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Vanderbilt neuroscientists, art museum collaborate on NEA-funded visual cognition research
Vanderbilt neuroscientists Isabel Gauthier and Thomas Palmeri will collaborate with a Buffalo, New York, art gallery on a two-year project that recently earned a National Endowment for the Arts Research: Art Works program award. Read MoreMay 17, 2019
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Dolphin ancestor’s hearing was more like hoofed mammals than today’s sea creatures
The team, one of the first in the world to examine the ability’s origins, used a small CT scanner to look inside a 30-million-year-old ear bone fossil from a specimen resembling Olympicetus avitus. Read MoreMay 15, 2019
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Vanderbilt team determining how seasonal light for pregnant moms affects offspring’s mental health
Seasonal light exposure during pregnancy had effects on serotonin and depression that persisted into adulthood in mice. Read MoreMay 14, 2019
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Learn about MLAS program at open house May 21
Vanderbilt's Master of Liberal Arts and Science program offers a flexible graduate degree for Nashville's adult learners who wish to pursue their intellectual passions and curiosities in the company of fellow lovers of knowledge and some of Vanderbilt's finest faculty. Read MoreMay 13, 2019
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VanDiver and Lieberman selected for NEH Summer Stipend awards
Faculty members Rebecca K. VanDiver and Phillip I. Lieberman are the only professors in Tennessee to receive 2019 Summer Stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read MoreMay 13, 2019
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Vanderbilt honors Class of 2019 Founder’s Medalists
Vanderbilt University recognized exceptional graduating students from each of its undergraduate and professional schools on Friday, May 10, during this year’s Commencement ceremonies. Read MoreMay 10, 2019
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Gordon Logan elected to National Academy of Sciences
Gordon Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology, has been elected a foreign associate of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Read MoreMay 9, 2019
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Two students awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Vanderbilt University sophomore Aakash Basu and junior Eric Zhang have been named Goldwater Scholars. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier award for undergraduate STEM students who show exceptional promise of becoming the nation’s next generation of research leaders. Read MoreMay 8, 2019
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Blair School Dean Mark Wait to speak at this year’s Phi Beta Kappa ceremony
Blair School Dean Mark Wait will address the university’s outstanding liberal arts undergraduates at the Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony May 9. Read MoreMay 7, 2019