It’s October, which means it’s DigitalVU Month, Vanderbilt’s annual technology learning series. Now in its third year, DigitalVU Month features 28 presentations and information sessions from experts across campus as well as external vendors on all things related to how we use technology to collaborate, communicate and create.
As a part of the 2010 Southern Festival of Books, Humanities Tennessee and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, with additional support from Vanderbilt’s Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions, will host a series of sessions on Oct. 8 and 9 titled “Building Community in the 21st Century – Perspectives on Civility and Democracy.” All sessions are free and open to the public. The chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, James Leach, will present two sessions on the topic: one at the Southern Festival of Books and one on the Vanderbilt University campus. Both sessions are free and open to the public.
Things are different at the Central Library. The new features are part of a $6 million renovation - one designed to make the space more inviting, to make Vanderbilt’s Special Collections more accessible, and to better meet the needs of students in the 21st century.
The most lasting legacy of the life of industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt is the university that bears his name, biographer T.J. Stiles said during the Chancellor’s Lecture Series. Stiles, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, spoke Sept. 29 in Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Peter Buerhaus has been named chair of the National Health Care Workforce Commission, a 15-member panel comprised of distinguished leaders from academia and the health care industry created under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Division of Sponsored Research received notification in August that the following grants in excess of $25,000 had been awarded.
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