Fall Undergraduate Research Fair showcases record-breaking number of presenters
The fall Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair welcomed more than 500 guests and featured 212 undergraduate presenters in a variety of disciplines. The Nov. 9 event boasted the largest number of student presenters in the fall program’s history.Read More
SUSTAINABILITY
WATCH: A day at the Vanderbilt I Solar Farm
Did you know Vanderbilt University is completely carbon neutral? Watch as Class of 2024’s Ari Sasson takes us behind the scenes of the Vanderbilt I Solar Farm, which is providing clean energy to the electrical grid.Read More
ATHLETICS
Fiction and Reality: Vanderbilt alum balances pro tennis career with debut fantasy novel
That Fernanda Contreras had the potential to go places in tennis—including the grass lawns of Wimbledon—was apparent to any of the college coaches who recruited her. But former Vanderbilt women’s tennis coach Geoff Macdonald might have been the only one likely to guess that one of the program’s all-time greats would go on to become a novelist.Read More
The inaugural Commodore Cup competition at the Wond’ry showcased student innovation through design thinking as it applied to two sustainability-related challenges on campus. From left to right: Team EZ, made up of 2nd-year Elizabeth Tucker and 2nd-year Emma Williams, which took first place in the Transportation category; Professor David A. Owens; and Team Motivation to Direct Action, made up of 3rd-year Emily Qian, 2nd-year Layne Foeder and 2nd-year master’s student Manda Li, which took first place in the Sustainability Dashboard category.
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