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Conor G. Bloomer, a senior from Watertown, Massachusetts, is this year's recipient of the Department of Art’s prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award. The Senior Show installation is on display until May 12. Read More

Just in time for student move-out and spring cleaning, Earth-friendly donation and recycling locations on campus are being expanded April 20 through May 13. Read More

Distinguished fiction writer and professor Lorrie Moore has been awarded a prestigious fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Read More

Two Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students were recently recognized with national awards for their accomplishments. Read More

Read about the latest faculty, staff, student and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read More

The Vanderbilt men’s golf team claimed its first-ever SEC Championship on Monday, winning their final match-play match, 3-2, over Texas A&M in Sea Island, Georgia. Read More

Two seasons ago, the Vanderbilt women's tennis team won its first Southeastern Conference Tournament championship. On Sunday the Commodores returned to the pinnacle of SEC tennis in dramatic fashion. Read More

The Vanderbilt Board of Trust will get a new chairman and vice chairman on July 1. Read More

Accomplished postdocs and faculty "Mentor of the Year" honored at annual Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association and Shared Resources Symposium April 19. Read More

Bright space, which will replace Blackboard as Vanderbilt’s course management system this summer, is now available for instructors planning their summer and fall courses. Read More

Professor of English Mark Schoenfield, an expert on Romantic periodicals and culture, has been awarded a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in English literature. Read More

The event features 70 projects and gives teams of young engineers practice explaining their complicated work to a broad audience. Read More

Vanderbilt dropped back-to-back games to Nebraska to finish in third place at the NCAA Bowling Championship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) now ranks No. 8 in the nation among U.S. medical schools in total grant support provided through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The new ranking raises VUSM’s standing two spots from the No. 10 position it held last year. Read More

A $5 million gift from alumnus John Arnold and his wife, Laura, will bolster public policy studies and civic engagement at Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science. Read More

In an era when colleges and universities are attacked and research and discovery are devalued, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos pledged at the spring faculty assembly to fight for Vanderbilt's mission. Read More

Six faculty members were recognized for their teaching, research and service at the annual Spring Faculty Assembly April 6. Read More

Students, staff and faculty will have the opportunity to explore FutureVU, Vanderbilt’s campus land use planning initiative, during a multimedia event on Wednesday, April 19. Read More

Vanderbilt students Lauren Branscombe, Joshua Fleck and David Zhang have been recognized in this year’s Goldwater Scholars competition. They are among a group of 240 scholars selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,286 mathematics, science and engineering students nationwide. Read More

The College of Arts and Science has announced the appointment of Bonnie J. Dow, professor of communication studies and chair of the department, as the divisional dean of humanities. Read More