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Undergraduate students co-lead study on carbon offset financing for energy-efficiency upgrades for low-income households
Dec. 19, 2024—Climate change affects us all; however, disadvantaged communities are often the most vulnerable and negatively impacted. Low-income households have limited material and financial resources to build resilience to heat and other weather events. Low-income households in the U.S. spend 6 to 10 percent of their limited income on energy costs, compared with 3 percent spent...
Vanderbilt ‘flips the switch’ on first solar farm collaboration with Clearloop; celebrations on campus Oct. 15–16
Sep. 27, 2024—Vanderbilt University has expanded access to clean energy in the Southeast while further offsetting the university’s carbon footprint and maintaining its carbon neutrality. This is thanks to the first “flip the switch” on a solar farm developed through the university’s multiyear collaboration with Clearloop, a subsidiary of Silicon Ranch, an alumni-founded solar company based in Nashville. The location...
Campus Dining partners with Residential Colleges for Commons Cup sustainability challenge
Sep. 13, 2024—Vanderbilt University Campus Dining is excited to announce a new collaboration with Residential Colleges, integrating the ReusePass reusable container program into this year’s Commons Cup. This annual competition among first-year houses promotes camaraderie through academic, social, and community-focused challenges. With sustainability as a core value, it was a natural fit to make ReusePass the centerpiece...
Extraction/Interaction, the Curb Center’s fall exhibition, opens Sept. 9
Sep. 11, 2024—Acid mine drainage. Digitally printed legal documents. Drone photographs. Core samples. Appalachian bituminous coal. The artists represented in Extraction/Interaction—the Curb Center’s fall exhibition—use these and other materials to create bodies of work that galvanize responses and resistance to the climate crisis. Featuring the work of Will Wilson, Eliza Evans and John Sabraw, Extraction/Interaction considers how climate grief can transform artistic practice into a...
Awards for sustainability work and People, Culture and Belonging
Aug. 26, 2024—Vanderbilt has won three Stevie Awards—the first time the university has been recognized by the world’s premier awards for business achievement. More than 3,600 international nominations were submitted in a wide range of categories. The accolades include two recognitions from the Stevie International Business Awards, which accepts nominations worldwide from all individuals and organizations–large and small, public...
Vanderbilt awarded $890,000 in inaugural TNGO Mobility and Automotive Discovery Grants
Aug. 23, 2024—Vanderbilt University was awarded $890,000 from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development’s inaugural Transportation Network Growth Opportunity Mobility and Automotive Discovery Grants. The TNGO initiative connects statewide research assets, communities and talent designed to make Tennessee the top destination in the Southeast for automotive and mobility research and development investment. TNGO awarded $2.9...
Everything you need to know about getting around campus and Nashville
Aug. 19, 2024—Vanderbilt University community members have many options for getting around campus and Nashville, from walking to Centennial Park, taking free WeGo public transit rides to Taste of Nashville restaurants, biking to Hillsboro Village and more. The Office of Transportation and Mobility can help with your daily travel decisions and maybe reduce your carbon footprint in the process. Check out the following resources to...
Gilligan awarded spot in American Geophysical Union’s Voices for Science program
Jul. 2, 2024—When Jonathan Gilligan, professor of earth and environmental sciences, thinks about climate change, they think about people. Gilligan says that climate change causes a variety of weather patterns to undergo persistent changes, and those affect every aspect of peoples’ lives, as well as the workings of our society and economy more broadly. In March, Gilligan was...
New CBMS supplemental grant aims to enhance laboratory safety practices
Jun. 27, 2024—Given the occurrence of tragic accidents and near-misses at research institutions across the country, cultivating a culture of laboratory safety in academic institutions has been a pressing concern for governmental funding agencies. Thanks to a training grant supplement from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded last year, Vanderbilt campus partners collaborated to execute...
Vanderbilt conference sparks collaboration for Tennessee’s transportation future
Jun. 14, 2024—Earlier this year, Forbes magazine ranked Nashville’s commute as the “toughest in America,” with commuters losing an average of 41 hours a year to traffic congestion. In keeping with its commitment to mitigating this issue, Vanderbilt recently hosted a groundbreaking conference focused on driving transportation innovation in Tennessee. The Intelligent Transportation Society of Tennessee’s 2024 annual meeting, held May 15–17,...