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Lifelong learners over 50 invited to sign up for Vanderbilt Osher winter classes
Winter 2020 classes offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt include the history of Fort Negley, memoir writing, brain disorders and a Shakespeare production. Read MoreNov 26, 2019
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Vanderbilt faculty earn $1.2M grant to support STEM majors who want to teach
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to Vanderbilt to establish scholarships that serve the national need of recruiting and preparing high-quality STEM teachers for high-need school districts. Read MoreJul 10, 2019
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Vanderbilt Osher Lifelong Learning summer classes announced
A harmonica learning lab, nutrition and health, and the history of Fisk University are among the topics offered in June and July by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. Read MoreMay 6, 2019
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Vanderbilt Osher winter term: Innovation, ‘Julius Caesar’ and more
Innovative thinking in the digital age, women in the civil rights movement and acting for opera are among the winter 2019 classes offered by Vanderbilt’s Osher Institute for Lifelong Learners. Read MoreDec 21, 2018
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Vanderbilt Osher 2018 summer term features Fisk courses
A survey of world art featuring Fisk collections, Nashville's diverse musical history, and cast-iron cooking are among summer classes offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. Read MoreMay 4, 2018
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Vanderbilt’s Mellon-funded humanities partnership expands
Vanderbilt's efforts to strengthen humanities education through a partnership with three schools expands to Fisk University, thanks to a $1.93 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read MoreJan 26, 2018
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Meet Vanderbilt’s first Academic Pathways fellows
Seven outstanding Ph.D.’s with diverse backgrounds and experiences have come to Vanderbilt to pursue postdoctoral training with an eye toward academic careers. Read MoreOct 27, 2017
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VU’s Osher Lifelong Learning launches partnership with Fisk
For the first time, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt is offering a series of classes taught by Fisk University faculty on the Fisk campus. Read MoreJul 14, 2017
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Chancellor Charter tour shows how Music City got its name
About 30 Vanderbilt staff, students and faculty members spent Saturday learning how Nashville became Music City during the second Chancellor’s Charter tour. Read MoreMar 20, 2017
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Chancellor charges students to live out King’s legacy during MLK Day of Service
Standing on the dais from which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos charged college students gathered Saturday at Fisk University to live out the civil rights leader's legacy. Read MoreJan 16, 2017
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Scholarships available to STEM students who want to teach
Undergraduate students majoring in science, math or engineering have the opportunity to make a difference in high-needs secondary schools while earning teaching licensure and a master’s degree. Read MoreJul 7, 2016
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Zeppos delivers keynote at Fisk Honors Convocation
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos was the keynote speaker during Fisk University's Honors Convocation April 7 in Fisk Memorial Chapel. Read MoreApr 19, 2016
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New detector perfect for asteroid mining
A new generation of gamma-ray spectrometer being developed by researchers and students in the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master's-to-Ph.D. Bridge program is perfectly suited for detecting valuable minerals hidden within the asteroids, comets, moons and minor planets in the solar system. Read MoreNov 19, 2015
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Holley-Bockelmann named director of Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has been named director of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program, College of Arts and Science Dean Lauren Benton announced. Read MoreSep 14, 2015
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NSF award goes to Fisk geneticist following VU post-doc training
The partnership with Fisk through the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program and other avenues, “presents us with an opportunity to see the results of our efforts impact an under-served community." Read MoreJul 7, 2015
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Keivan Stassun receives Diversity Visionary Award
Astronomer Keivan Stassun has received "INSIGHT into Diversity" magazine's 2015 Diversity Visionary Award, called "the only national individual honor in higher education of its kind." Read MoreJun 10, 2015
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Fisk, VU planning novel academic bridge program
Fisk University and Vanderbilt University have begun planning for a novel academic bridge program comprising a three-year accelerated Fisk undergraduate degree, weighted toward courses in natural science, mathematics or computer science, followed by a computer science master’s degree from Fisk, bridging to a Biomedical Informatics Ph.D. from Vanderbilt. Read MoreOct 31, 2013
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Nashville Scene Innovations 2013: True grit
Fisk and Vanderbilt's Bridge Program mentors talented minority students pursuing advanced science degrees. Keivan Stassun, professor of astronomy and director of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program, is quoted. Read MoreAug 9, 2013
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VUCast Extra: Bridging the Gap in the Sciences
Vanderbilt is on track this year to become the number one producer of minority Ph.D. recipients in physics, astronomy and materials science, an area where minorities are grossly underrepresented. Watch the emotional journey of the latest doctoral graduates from the Fisk-Vanderbilt-Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreJun 8, 2012
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Black migration focus of Vanderbilt-Fisk symposium
(Image courtesy of the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco) A range of issues relative to the challenges, possibilities and tensions that have emerged from the migration and settlement of black people in North America, the Caribbean and Europe will be discussed at a symposium co-hosted by Vanderbilt… Read MoreFeb 9, 2012