Two places shaped Robert Penn Warren, the man who became a Rhodes Scholar, the first poet laureate of the United States and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner: Vanderbilt University and Guthrie, Ky.
Vanderbilt honors him with its Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and Fugitive and Agrarian Collection; Guthrie has the Robert Penn Warren Birthplace House…although it nearly lost that.
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A global society makes it possible and vital for students and faculty to reach beyond campus to the world. Today it would be a challenge to find any department in the College of Arts and Science without international connections.
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Arts and Science physicists contributed to one of the most intriquing discoveries in science: insight into the Higgs boson, which could help explain why particles have mass.
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Brilliant, caring, productive, admired and provocative, English professor Vereen Bell has transformed students, friends and Vanderbilt alike for 50 years.
Read more »Can you say, “Please pass the salt” in another language? Residents of McTyeire International House can. Table conversation might be in any of the seven languages spoken at McTyeire, a residence hall where cultivating language fluency is a community commitment and expanding that fluency a 24-hour opportunity.
When I was young, I used to read the dictionary. My grandmother, who helped raise me, was a high school librarian and kept multiple dictionaries in the house at any given time. Whenever I didn’t know the meaning of a word, she would send me to one of those books and eventually I began to dive into them on my own accord.
Heart’s Content Life is full for Dr. Antonio Gotto, world-renowned expert on atherosclerosis—the primary cause of cardiovascular disease. After stepping down as dean of Cornell University’s medical school, he continues as a leader at heart.
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A Place to Learn, a Place to Grieve … a Place to Thrive Whenever I think about my years at Vanderbilt, I still shake my head with a tad of disbelief and think, “How did circumstances even allow me to apply to Vanderbilt?”
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Five Minutes with Anthony B. Hmelo Spend five minutes with Tony Hmelo, a research professor whose work has taken him from NASA to nanoscience and from New York to Nashville.
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Now and Later Would you refuse to drink bottled water if it would help your yet-to-be-born great grandchild? That’s a delicate balance—the contemporary demand for immediate gratification and the responsibility to secure and protect resources for the future. Understanding and managing these competing issues has been the topic of the Sustainability Project, a yearlong Vanderbilt-wide exploration under the aegis of the College of Arts and Science’s American Studies program and funded by the College of Arts and Science’s Fant Fund.
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Turning Pro Could an answer to America’s shortage of science and math (STEM) students be as simple as being able to do meaningful research as undergraduates? Students in the SyBBURE Searle initative are already on the path to research careers.
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Larry Bartels, May Werthan Shayne Professor of Public Policy and Social Science, and Randolph Blake, Centennial Professor of Psychology, were elected to the National Academy of Science. Election is considered one of the highest honors accorded U.S. scientists. Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of American History, has been named the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University for 2013-14. Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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It was “methinks” and “sooth” and Shakespeare filling the air as College of Arts and Science students worked with classically trained actors during an intense week of workshops, classes and study with Actors From The London Stage.
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