Tennessee

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (Vanderbilt University) Dear Vanderbilt Community: As one of our nation’s and world’s top research universities, Vanderbilt advances its mission by  integrating and disseminating knowledge and information. Increasingly, Internet technology presents an exciting conduit for the broad dissemination of knowledge to millions. Last year, I appointed… Read More

Vanderbilt University will make its first institution-wide foray into offering worldwide, free, digital courses by some of its leading faculty members in spring 2013 via the digital learning consortium Coursera. Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School students will share reflections on their May trip to the United States-Mexico border at a Sept. 25 community breakfast. Read More

Watch video of Mark Abkowitz, Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt, discuss adaptation strategies with a specific focus on infrastructure systems as a means to prepare for future climate change such as extreme weather events. In his presentation, he suggests using a holistic risk management approach to identify… Read More

Watch video of Ben Preston, of Oak Ridge National Laboratories and co-author of the Sustaining Tennessee Report, who provided an overview of the sustainability report for the audience at the release event. The report was a joint effort of seventeen scientists coming from five research institutions to evaluate the future… Read More

Watch video of Nashville Mayor, Karl Dean, providing opening remarks at the report release event. He provided insight as to what Nashville is doing to prepare for the future including the sustainable efforts in response to the May 2010 Flood, such as development of the Flood Preparedness and Prevention Plan,… Read More

Watch video of the most recent presentation in the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series – The Culture of a Neighborhood – which took place on September 13. The Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s production of the Tony award-winning play Clybourne Park sets the stage for an open discussion about the culture… Read More

The effects of climate change will have widespread impact on the state, but there are opportunities to offset it by incorporating “climate-friendly” and “climate-resilient” actions into routine management decisions, say scientists from Vanderbilt University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Memphis and the Tennessee Department of Health in a new report. Read More

(Photo courtesy of PBS) “Call the Midwife,” a British drama about the lives of midwives working in the East End of London in the 1950s, will have a free preview showing of an episode at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Read More

From left to right, Bill Gibbons, Jason Deal, Mark Cate. Photo courtesy of the State of Tennessee. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s Chief of Staff Mark Cate and Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons were among several state officials to honor 24 individuals from across the state… Read More

Saturday University, designed to help adults rediscover the joy of education, will focus on the November elections during sessions Oct. 13 and 20. Read More

Vanderbilt employees with children between 4 and 14 are being invited to participate in a free four-hour Family Mass Vaccination exercise on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks. Read More

(image courtesy of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt) All funds raised at the Cooper Trooper Pumpkin Patch, open during the month of October, will benefit the Cooper Trooper Foundation Fund in Childhood Cancer Research at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The pumpkin patch… Read More

Vanderbilt’s physics and astronomy department has invited the award-winning music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, to deliver a lecture on campus. Read More

The Blair School of Music has a full schedule of free music events this month. (Vanderbilt) Welcome back to another amazing semester of concerts at the Blair School of Music! We kicked off our Fall 2012 concert season with a capacity crowd for our 150th birthday tribute… Read More

The effects of climate change will have widespread impact on the state, but there are opportunities to offset it by incorporating “climate-friendly” and “climate-resilient” actions into routine management decisions, say scientists from Vanderbilt and other major Tennessee research institutions in a new report. Read More

The first Chancellor’s Lecture of the academic year, entitled “Genomes, Hype and a Realistic Pathway to Personalized Medicine,” will be given Wednesday, Sept. 12, by Dan Roden, M.D., assistant vice chancellor for Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams’ fifth anniversary celebration will benefit the Monroe (Vanderbilt University) Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The event, scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Read More

Luke Brown, left, celebrates his team’s win in the regional championships, which enabled them to advance to the Little League World Series. When Luke Brown was 5, he slid into second base as a little black box flew out of the back pocket of his baseball pants. The… Read More

Ana Perez, O.D., right, gives an eye test to 6-year-old Venice Fanning during the PAVE clinic, which offers free low vision services to eligible school-age children in Tennessee. Nothing brings Brandi McRedmond a bigger smile than seeing one of her patients in tears. It’s the telltale… Read More