Students

The good news for NFL players who sustain an injury to their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is that they‘ll likely play again in the NFL. The bad news is, they‘ll return with diminished performance on the field, concludes a study in the December issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt chemists whose work could make the light bulb pass√à and cut electricity consumption by half are among the recipients of Popular Mechanics magazine‘s 2006 Breakthrough Awards. Read More

A team of students from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management won first place at the 11th annual International Case Competition Nov. 10-11 at Carnegie Mellon University‘s Tepper School of Business. Read More

A Vanderbilt student has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to study in England.John Jumper hopes for placement at the University of Cambridge, where he would use the scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics. The senior in the College of Arts and Sciences has already taken enough of the graduate curriculum in physics to gradate with a master‘s degree. Read More

An international student adviser and a professor from Vanderbilt University were awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2006-07 academic year, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Read More

Vanderbilt University students are hosting a "mini marathon" event Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 3 p.m. to generate excitement about and participation in Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run fundraising event held each February. Money raised through Dance Marathon benefits the Children‘s Miracle Network, which directly benefits local network member the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt ranks fourth among the nation‘s top universities in the percentage of African Americans who make up the current freshman class, according to a survey by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Read More

Watch video by Vanderbilt\'s student video bloggers Brittany Adkins and Kris Bahlke about The Commons, a new residential living experience which will bring together all first-year students in a community of 10 residence halls to be known as "houses" on Vanderbilt\'s Peabody College campus. Read More

Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos will talk about her battle with anorexia Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read More

Muhammad Yunus, who earned a Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University in 1971, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work combating poverty through a bank that gives small loans to poor people. Read More

Twenty-nine high school bands from as far as New York state will converge on Vanderbilt University's Dudley Field Saturday, Oct. 7, for the 18th annual Vanderbilt Marching Invitational. Read More

The Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development has created a new resource to help employers tap the talent of the college's growing numbers of master's students and alumni in non-traditional education programs. Read More

"Remembering Sept. 11" will be the focus of a Vanderbilt University interactive videoconference on Monday, Sept. 11, with Professor James Booth, whose research includes the remembrance of national events. Read More

About 200 Vanderbilt University students will board buses on Friday, Sept. 1, to travel overnight to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the nationally televised football season opener between Vanderbilt and Michigan on Saturday, Sept. 2. Read More

Despite gaps in income based on race, ethnicity and sex beginning to close slowly but surely during the last quarter of the 20th century, academic experts say disparities in wealth between racial groups now may actually be increasing. Read More

About 20 Vanderbilt University students will work with health organizations in Uganda this summer as part of that country's response to HIV/AIDS. Read More

The Senior Class Day program will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Alumni Lawn with special guest First Lady Laura Bush. Please note the security procedures below. Read More

Vanderbilt family, friends and alumni will have the chance to get a firsthand look at Commencement events this year, no matter where on the planet they happen to be May 10-12. For the first time, the university will be offering an online video web log, or vlog, of The Party, Senior Class Day and Commencement as seen through the eyes of two current students. Read More

With the 11th pick in the 2006 National Football League draft, the Denver Broncos selected Jay Cutler of Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt University students won top honors in the Southeast Journalism Conference's (SEJC) Best in the South contest. Read More