By Jeneta Nwosu The news that Rand Dining Center will open Saturdays this fall was welcome to sophomore Gage Price, president of the premier alternative investment club on campus. “I was overjoyed, really,” Price said. “As a Branscomb resident and notorious party animal, Rand breakfast will be the best pick-me-up...
By Jeneta Nwosu Like any academic validation addict, I was an ambitious child. My plan was simple: get my degree, get my money up and get the hell out of Dodge. Dodge being my parents’ house, not the proverbial city in Kansas. Then everything changed. The scales fell from my...
By Charles Dorkins Once upon a time —of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve— Daniel Diermeier sat busy in his home office, drawing up schemes to ensure Vanderbilt University became #1 in the world, and he, its #1 chancellor. His most recent gambit – slowly replacing...
By Adaora Dike A new research initiative examining the potential of male validation as a treatment enhancing psychological and physical wellbeing brings VUMC to the bleeding edge of evidence-based alternative medicine. If successful, it will completely transform the landscape of the field. Principal Investigator Dr. Frida Nipp, M.D. Ph.D, wasn’t...
