Nashville

Chris Westbrook, MBA, assistant director of Children’s Hospital Outpatient Clinics, with patient Jaisha Ricks at the Vanderbilt Children’s After-Hours Clinic in Brentwood. The four after-hours clinic locations have treated 25,000 patients in less than two years. Vanderbilt Children’s… Read More

Congressman Jim Cooper visited with Metro Nashville Public School students at Vanderbilt's School for Science and Math on Nov. 12. Read More

Another participant in the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt has advanced in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Read More

Vanderbilt University Theatre will perform "City of Songs" Nov. 6-8 and 12-14. The original play, written by Brian Granger and the play's cast members, explores what it's like to live and work in Nashville during its current status as an "it" city. Read More

Vanderbilt has several assessment and policy experts available to address this topic. Read More

Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 18 percent from its peak in 2008 and by 13 percent overall from calendar years 2005 to 2014, according to the Vanderbilt Sustainability and Environmental Management Office’s latest GHG inventory. Read More

A Coursera student in India’s round trip of 16,716 miles began with an invitation to spend a summer in Nashville, Tennessee, as a computer science intern at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Nearly three-quarters of Nashville residents are optimistic about the state of the city, but significant differences of opinion exist, primarily along income--rather than racial--lines. Read More

SustainVU, the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach and Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science are subgrant recipients of a $91,000, two-year EPA grant to Nashville’s Urban Green Lab to deliver hands-on science and sustainability education to Nashville middle- and high-schoolers. Read More

Overcast skies, misty rain and cool temperatures did not dampen the spirits of the 9,000 walkers who descended on Vanderbilt’s campus for the American Heart Association’s 2015 Greater Nashville Heart Walk, which was held Saturday, Oct. 3. Read More

Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., started his annual State of the Medical Center Address last Thursday by affirming that many who work at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) feel “called to do so,” often compelled by life-shaping experiences. Read More

Understanding how state school systems can best use teacher evaluation data to drive instructional improvement is the focus of a new Vanderbilt study. Read More

Special education professor Andrea Capizzi spoke to Tennessee administrative law judges about inclusive education. Read More

A few thousand families in the Metro Nashville Public Schools system will now have computers at home, thanks to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s donation of 3,800 lightly used computers. Read More

Area Girl Scouts will have the opportunity to earn their “Engineering Day” patches at an event hosted by Vanderbilt University engineering students on Saturday, Oct. 3. Read More

A Vanderbilt study is showing that early intervention may be the key to stopping the depression cycle in families. Read More

The National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools at Vanderbilt Peabody College will host its second national conference at the Music City Center. Read More

Vanderbilt has joined a new coalition of diverse public and private colleges and universities created to improve the college admission application process for all students. Read More

A coherent vision and consistent implementation is needed to bolster the power of pre-K. Read More

A panel discussion Sept. 24 delved into the challenges Tennessee faces in "scaling up" quality pre-k. Read More