As Nashville works to overhaul its transit system through a referendum this November, other efforts to improve WeGo’s efficiency are already in the works.
Vanderbilt police arrest local reporter covering pro-Palestinian student protest
A local reporter left a Vanderbilt University student protest that he was covering in handcuffs on Tuesday afternoon. Campus police arrested Nashville Scene reporter Eli Motycka, as students accused the administration of suppressing pro-Palestinian voices on campus.
Peering into space with Nashville astronomers
Some of the most exciting research in astronomy is happening right here in Nashville.
How two key SCOTUS decisions could affect higher education in Tennessee
Two opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court will have major implications across the higher education landscape in Tennessee. Justices ruled against race-conscious admissions policies and the Biden Administration’s student debt relief program.
Vanderbilt and Metro Schools are teaming up to study inequities in college-level course offerings — and how to address them
A partnership between MNPS and Vanderbilt University will study disparities in access to career and college-level courses and research how to close the gaps.
Outgoing Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean Emilie Townes reflects on her legacy
Later this month, Emilie Townes will step down as dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School. She joins us to reflect on her legacy, and how the Divinity School has changed with Nashville over the past decade.
Jefferson Cowie on the history of freedom and federal power in America
What is freedom? And what happens when one person’s approach to freedom infringes on another person’s civil liberties? These are the central questions in Jefferson Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. In this work, Cowie zeroes in on Barbour County, Alabama, and its relationship with federal power and freedom, from […]
Is Earth unique? A Vanderbilt astronomer may soon find out.
The James Webb Space Telescope launched into space about one year ago. Six months after becoming fully operational, it has glimpsed distant galaxies while peeling back our cosmic history closer to the Big Bang than ever before.
Vanderbilt is helping launch a college to train teachers in Iraq
With the help of a U.S. State Department grant, faculty from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College will partner with American University of Iraq – Baghdad to launch a college of education.
Vanderbilt graduate students protest new apartments, as Nashville housing prices continue to rise
Graduate student workers are rallying at Vanderbilt University Wednesday to protest unaffordable housing.
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