Year: 2021

Pam Jones, BSN’81, MSN’92, DNP’13, has been appointed associate vice chancellor for health and wellness, Vice Chancellor for Administration Eric Kopstain announced today. Read More

Vanderbilt is ranked 14th among national universities for a second consecutive year in "U.S. News & World Report’s" 2022 Best Colleges rankings. The university also was recognized as a best value and for the quality of its undergraduate teaching. Read More

Join Robin Fountain, a public affairs specialist with the Social Security Administration, as she discusses when you are eligible to receive retirement benefits, how early retirement affects your benefits, how you can get the most from your benefits, and when you should file for Medicare. Read More

Work-life balance means striking a healthy balance between your working life and your personal life. Join Heather Smith, a public health education specialist with Mental Health America of the MidSouth, as she outlines key strategies and tips for setting boundaries and prioritizing self-care to achieve work-life balance. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may submit one nomination per category for the 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. These awards honor exceptional young scientists by celebrating their extraordinary achievements, recognizing their inspiring promise, and accelerating their innovations. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Division of Government and Community Relations has published the seventh issue of its "ON THE HILL" government relations report. The biannual report summarizes Vanderbilt’s activities over the past six months at the federal, state and local levels of government. Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy and Vanderbilt’s Master of Public Health Program will open the Art of Healing Exposition on Friday, Sept. 17, featuring works from the World Health Organization’s Art to Act for Health initiative as well as Nashville-area artists. Read More

On Sept. 11, 2021, VUPD received a report from a Campus Security Authority that a female student was sexually assaulted by a male student during the morning in a residence hall. Read More

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier reflects on the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, in a video message to the Vanderbilt community. Read More

Chronic illness prevented Jens Herman from earning his degree from Peabody more than a decade ago. The pandemic gave him a second chance. Read More

As Vanderbilt has evolved over its nearly 150 years, many favorite traditions have been established to celebrate the diversity and community that make VU special. Read More

Vanderbilt Health is asking for letters of encouragement for its health care workers in the continued efforts to fight COVID-19. Read More

The College of Arts and Science will host a virtual town hall on Wednesday, Sept. 15, to share A&S’ plans to improve the infrastructure of the Historic Core and Stevenson Center complex buildings. Read More

Join Employee Learning and Engagement on Thursday, Sept. 16, from 1 to 2 p.m. for “Remote Work: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls.” Read More

Last fall, five Buchanan Fellows at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries began a project to research Vanderbilt University’s first decade, from 1875 to 1885, and curate an online exhibit about what they discovered. In the process, the fellows learned how to find supporting materials, interpret historical objects, examine historically significant documents from Special Collections, and place all of them in the context of the university’s—and the nation’s—history. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a virtual town hall on Tuesday, Sept. 21, at noon CT for staff to hear directly from campus leaders about the university’s 2021 fall semester operations. Read More

Lisa Dordal teaches in the Department of English at Vanderbilt and is the author of Mosaic of the Dark (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and Water Lessons (forthcoming in April 2022). Read More

On Sept. 9, 2021, a Campus Security Authority reported the following two separate incidents to VUPD that are not believed to be related. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host PARK(ing) Day, an annual global event competition in which urban areas, such as parking lots, are transformed into green spaces to promote sustainable design, on Friday, Sept. 17. Read More

Engineering student Michael Weirich recently appeared on @GuyFieri’s Grocery Games on the Food Network. In addition to studying chemical engineering, Michael is writing his first cookbook and founded… Read More