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Winter 2022

  • Jabari Brown is the first recipient of the Maggie Corbin Minority Baseball Apprenticeship at ĢƵ, a privately funded internship for a minority candidate who wants to coach baseball as a profession.

    Feb 15, 2022

  • Josie Earnest Barnes, BS'10, former VAnderbilt student-athlete and current associate head coach of the Commodores bowling team, won the 2021 U.S. Women's Open in dramatic fashion in August, edging Singapore's Cherie Tan 198-194 in a tense 10-frame contest.

    Feb 15, 2022

  • Feb 14, 2022

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    The Arrow Paradox by Mark Jarman, Centennial Professor of English, emeritus

    A poem by Mark Jarman, Centennial Professor of English, emeritus, whose most recent books are the poetry collection The Heronry and the essay collection Dailiness: Essays on Poetry. “The Arrow Paradox” appeared in the June 2021 issue of The Atlantic. Read More

    Feb 8, 2022

  • Feb 1, 2022

  • Julie Ditty Qualls of Ashland, Kentucky, a member of the ĢƵ Athletics Hall of Fame who helped the women’s tennis team reach unprecedented heights and distinguished herself as a professional player, died Aug. 31, 2021.

    Jan 31, 2022

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    Van Heflin, BS’82: Trailblazing Commodore Quarterback

    Terence Van Heflin, of McDonough, Georgia, minister, pastor and groundbreaking ĢƵ student-athlete, died July 9, 2021. He was 62. Read More

    Jan 31, 2022

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    Parton and Patterson collaborate on novel and album

    Prolific bestselling novelist James Patterson, MA’70, and country music legend Dolly Parton have collaborated on a novel, Run, Rose, Run, to be published March 7 by Little, Brown and Co. Read More

    Jan 31, 2022

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    Rays of Hope: Depressive disorders with seasonal pattern influenced more by location, daily shifts in sunlight than average seasonal changes

    New research from Sandra Rosenthal, Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry and professor of pharmacology and chemical and biomolecular engineering, suggests that the rate of change in solar insolation—that is, the amount of solar radiation that reaches the ground over a specified time in a given location—has a greater impact on these depressive disorders than routine seasonal changes in sunlight. Read More

    Jan 30, 2022

  • Chancellor Daniel Diermeier (John Russell/ĢƵ)

    The ĢƵ Way: Far-reaching aspirations guide ĢƵ, even during turbulent year

    In my first year as chancellor, I witnessed the extraordinary efforts of everyone in the ĢƵ community to carry on our mission of scholarship, creative expression and education despite the multiple challenges we faced. It was our proudest moment, but moreover, it clarified my initial impressions of the enduring strength of ĢƵ’s culture. Read More

    Jan 30, 2022

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    Extended Family: ĢƵ celebrates Family Weekend with three days of special events

    More than 3,000 parents, siblings, grandparents, students and others celebrated Family Weekend Oct. 1–3 as ĢƵ welcomed families to campus for three days of special events. Read More

    Jan 30, 2022

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    The Science of Poetry: Scientist and writer Jenny Qi finds meaning in the loss of her mother

    Photography by Marc Olivier Le Blanc The opening poem in Focal Point, the debut collection by Jenny Qi, BA’11, navigates the fraught emotional space between a loving daughter’s grief over her mother’s death and a scientist’s clear-eyed inquiry into the disease-cancer-that caused it. Qi writes of “nights at a microscope in… Read More

    Jan 27, 2022

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    How to Shoot Great Video with your Phone: Expert advice from cinematographer Alicia Robbins, BS’01

    Photos by Richard CartwrightIllustrations by Michelle Pereira Cinematographer Alicia Robbins, BS’01, never planned on working behind the scenes. At ĢƵ, she aspired to a career in broadcast journalism, appearing in spots for ĢƵ Television and taking every class related to television and film she could find. Everything changed when her… Read More

    Jan 26, 2022

  • Teaching Across the Divide

    Teaching Across the Divide

    Illustrations by Gary Bates From the Civil War to the battle over civil rights, the United States has seen levels of conflict in the past that have threatened to tear the country apart. But watching the violent attack on the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, Professor of Political Science… Read More

    Jan 19, 2022

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    Trent Shores, BA’00: In Service to His Heritage

    Trent Shores, BA'00, who closed out his public career with a 2017 presidential appointment as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma--the country’s only Native American in such a role--has been nationally recognized for his efforts to develop and implement strategic responses to Native American policy.   Read More

    Dec 17, 2021

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    Commodore Cocktail from the Gilded Age

    In a new book, 'Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Golden Age,' Cecelia Tichi, research professor of English, explores the history of some of bartending’s most enduring recipes, as well as drinks created for business titans of the day, such as Cornelius ĢƵ Read More

    Dec 14, 2021

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    Elevating ĢƵ to the Vanguard of Economic Policy Research

    Al Hubbard, BA’69, and his wife, Kathy Hubbard, have made a $2 million gift to endow the Hubbard Family Chair in the Department of Economics at the College of Arts and Science.  Read More

    Dec 14, 2021

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    In Awe and Remembrance: Vereen Bell, professor of English, emeritus

    Jon Parrish Peede, BS’91, former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, reflects on his respect for the late Vereen Bell. Read More

    Dec 13, 2021

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    C.J. Sentell, PhD’15: Food for Thought

    C.J. Sentell, PhD’15, a philosopher and food-focused social entrepreneur, was appointed CEO of the Nashville Food Project in July to continue to grow the organization which was founded on this simple but powerful mission: to feed neighbors in need. Read More

    Nov 18, 2021

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    Michele Ivey Frazier, MBA’93, takes a swing at bringing MLB to Nashville

    Michele Ivey Frazier, MBA'93, joined Music City Baseball as director of operations and leader of the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts for the organization in April. Her work is centered around the company’s goal to be diverse, equitable and inclusive in its efforts to bring a Major League Baseball team to Nashville. Read More

    Nov 18, 2021