Year: 2018

Vanderbilt Campus Dining welcomed its staff members back for the spring semester at an awards luncheon Jan. 5 at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. Team members who were promoted, achieved staff awards during the fall and received service awards in 2017 were celebrated. Read More

  Autism researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and two other universities have received a $2.99 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to conduct a four-year multisite project investigating the impact of theatre and peer mediation on the social competence of youth with autism spectrum… Read More

Vanderbilt officially launched today its new offices that offer specialized services in three priority areas. Title IX and Student Discrimination, Student Access Services and Equal Employment Opportunity will replace the former Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action and Disability Services. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Division of Communications publishes “VUToday,” a compilation of Vanderbilt mentions in the media, each weekday. Read a selection of Vanderbilt news stories for the week of Jan. 8. Read More

At its first meeting of 2018, the University Staff Advisory Council hosted Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente, who discussed key university initiatives including Immersion Vanderbilt, graduate education, international strategy, big data and more. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Orchestra and conductor Robin Fountain will take on French composer Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an important masterwork of the Romantic era, on Thursday, Feb. 1. A special pre-concert reception for Vanderbilt University employees and their guests will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Ingram Hall lobby. Read More

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente has appointed a search committee comprising faculty, students and alumni from a broad array of disciplines to identify the next dean of Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science. Read More

Monique W. Morris, an award-winning author and social justice scholar, is the featured speaker for the next installment of the Dean’s Diversity Lecture Series at Vanderbilt's Peabody College. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s annual Service Award Ceremony recognizes employees who celebrated significant service milestones in 2017. You can share in the fun and congratulate your colleagues on their accomplishments by attending this year’s ceremony on Tuesday, Jan. 30, at the Student Life Center. Read More

Vanderbilt University's 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series will explore "Justice Through Collective Action: Fighting Oppression Without Suppression" and feature a keynote address by Michael Eric Dyson beginning at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 15 in Langford Auditorium. Other activities planned for the day include the Nashville Freedom March, freedom rides and teach-ins. See the full schedule of events. Read More

Seven professors on the faculty at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development are once again included in an annual listing of the most influential public scholars in education. Read More

Ash Wednesday services with the imposition of ashes will be held Wednesday, Feb. 14, in Rhea Chapel of the Vanderbilt University Hospital Lobby at 7 a.m, noon and 6 p.m. Read More

Key findings on the bodily effects of music during the shared human action of divine worship will be explored during a noon Religion in the Arts talk by Bruce Morrill Jan. 18. Read More

Please find below information on the operational status of various campus services for Friday, Jan. 12. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered that functional MRI detects neural activity in both gray and white matter in the brain, suggesting new ways to investigate diseases such as Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis. Read More

Due to winter weather conditions, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente has cancelled classes for Friday, Jan. 12, and Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has declared an administrative leave day. Essential employees MUST report to work to maintain core operations. Staff who do not have essential assignments need… Read More

  The forecast for Friday, Jan. 12 calls for a chance of freezing rain, ice and snow. If weather conditions necessitate the cancellation of classes, text, email and phone messages will be sent to all students, faculty and staff by 5 a.m. Friday morning through the Everbridge messaging platform. The information will… Read More

Vanderbilt scholars topped the American Educational Research Association’s list of most-read articles in 2017. Read More

Vanderbilt Business has launched a new admission offering for current Vanderbilt seniors called VU2MBA, which will allow students to gain desired work experience before returning to graduate school. Read More

Develop new skills and strokes with Vanderbilt Swim School! Group and private swim lesson registration is available online now at the Vanderbilt Recreation & Wellness Center. Read More