Immersion Vanderbilt
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Town hall meeting Monday will gather feedback on QEP proposals
The Office of the Provost is soliciting feedback on three proposals under consideration for selection as Vanderbilt’s 2017 Quality Enhancement Plan. The campus community is invited to attend a town hall meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 29, in the Jean and Alexander Heard Library Community Room, during which members of the QEP subcommittees will share and discuss their ideas. Read MoreFeb 24, 2016
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Vanderbilt partners with Brown, Harvard, Cornell, others to develop new study abroad programs
Vanderbilt has joined the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad with the goal of establishing high-quality study abroad programs. Read MoreFeb 15, 2016
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Feedback requested on QEP finalist proposals
The Office of the Provost is soliciting campus feedback on three proposals under consideration for selection as Vanderbilt’s 2017 Quality Enhancement Plan. The QEP is focused on Immersion Vanderbilt and will serve as a critical piece of the university’s reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Read MoreFeb 1, 2016
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VUCast Extra: Making a Difference in Latin America
From a new product to combat childhood malnutrition in Guatemala to a low-cost capsule for stomach cancer screenings to preserving the history of slave societies, Vanderbilt is helping find solutions, making discoveries and changing lives. Read MoreNov 12, 2015
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Vanderbilt archaeology students unearth university’s earliest history
A project excavating early servants’ quarters is capturing clues about Vanderbilt lives that would otherwise be forgotten. Read MoreNov 2, 2015
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Leg braces created at Vanderbilt help dog walk
VIDEO» There are prosthetics for people, but what do pet owners do when their animal needs help walking? Read MoreSep 11, 2015
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Provost seeks ideas for new immersion project
This week, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente issued a call to the Vanderbilt community to solicit ideas for Vanderbilt’s 2017 Quality Enhancement Plan, which will support the Immersion Vanderbilt pillar of the Academic Strategic Plan. Read MoreSep 10, 2015
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A VU Inside: Professor explores caves for clues to climate change
VIDEO» For Vanderbilt Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Jessica Oster, getting data means getting dirty. Oster and her team are collecting mineral deposits deep inside caves to find clues to climate change. Read MoreSep 1, 2015
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Vanderbilt Student-Designed App Unites Coffee Community
You may like your coffee in the morning, but chances are you don’t savor it as much as Sam Reilly, an intern at The Vanderbilt Institute for Coffee Studies who is marketing his new app for lovers of a good cup of joe. Reilly prefers “coffee that is sourced from… Read MoreAug 11, 2015
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VU Inside: The Latin American Public Opinion Project
The AmericasBarometer survey is the only scientifically rigorous comparative survey that covers all of North, Central, and South America, as well as a significant number of countries in the Caribbean. Read MoreJul 9, 2015
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Wisdom of Elders
Can you think of a story from a grandparent or great-grandparent that has been passed down in your family? For some, time and distance make it hard to learn from our elders. That’s why a special immersion program here at Vanderbilt is so significant. [vucastblurb] … Read MoreMay 29, 2015
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Class of 2015: Caroline Hatfield mines insight from studying the female image
If you’re funny, you don’t have to be perfect. That’s what senior Caroline Hatfield discovered in a research project about the cultural expectations by which female celebrities are judged compared to how society judges female comedians. Read MoreMay 5, 2015
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Class of 2015: Nolan Michael Smith combines coding and collaboration
Engineering senior Nolan Michael Smith never expected to be sitting in a laboratory waiting for a toddler to sign off on an app he designed. But that’s what happened when the computer science major agreed to collaborate with researchers at Peabody College. Read MoreMay 5, 2015
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Class of 2015: Holly Glass digs into the past and embraces her heritage
Holly Glass arrived at Vanderbilt feeling “weird and different.” She kept to herself her identity as a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Checking in four years later, things are entirely different. Read MoreApr 30, 2015
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Class of 2015: Ben Shane maps his own journey
Ben Shane is not easily labeled, which is what makes him an ideal Curb Scholar. The motorcycle aficionado has described himself as “enjoying ancient Chinese poetry, modern American fiction and Taylor Swift.” Read MoreApr 30, 2015
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Class of 2015: Angela Mosley turns collective history into community action
For the past two years, honors psychology major Angela Mosley has studied racial and ethnic health disparities in the Southeast. Mosley knew she wanted to study the subject after taking professor David Schlundt’s course on health psychology. Read MoreApr 30, 2015
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Class of 2015: Augie Phillips, Ted Moock and Dan McNeill find harmony in the Melodores
It’s safe to say that Dan McNeill, Ted Moock and Augie Phillips always will remember what they were doing on Dec. 17, 2014. That evening they tuned in to NBC to watch the Melodores, a student a cappella group, compete on "The Sing-Off" holiday special. Read MoreApr 29, 2015
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Class of 2015: Junyi Chu brings global perspective to helping children learn
Is there a better way to teach kids math? Senior Junyi Chu, a child development and cognitive studies major, is using her honors thesis to explore that question. Read MoreApr 28, 2015
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Class of 2015: Nora Pertz follows her musical passions abroad
At 14, Nora Pertz began pestering her mother to let her study abroad. And ever since her high school piano teacher found the program in Vienna, Austria, in which Pertz studied piano the summer before starting Vanderbilt, she has never looked back. Read MoreApr 23, 2015
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Class of 2015: Simeng Miao finds encouragement in mentorship and research
When Simeng Miao was a first-year student living in Hank Ingram House, she often spent Friday evenings in the residence of faculty head of house Dr. Kyla Terhune. For Miao, who had long dreamed of becoming a physician, the relationship was significant. Read MoreApr 23, 2015