Year: 2022

Join us for a live session with Dylan Platz from VUIT. We’ll cover the what, why and how of effectively using Microsoft Teams, a powerful collaboration and video tool, and we’ll invite you to ask questions.  Read More

Vanderbilt’s annual Student Service Fair will be Wednesday, Sept. 28, from 1 to 3 p.m. on Alumni Lawn. The event will bring more than 35 community partners, organizations and agencies with a variety of missions to Vanderbilt to interact with students who want to get involved in the Nashville community. Read More

Geo-Jobe, on behalf of the Vanderbilt University Facilities department, will fly a fixed-wing drone over campus on Tuesday, Sept. 20, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Facilities department schedules a drone flyover twice a year to capture aerial footage and images of the tree canopy around campus. Read More

Proponents of full inclusion—placing students with disabilities in general classrooms for most of the school day—maintain that the more time those students spend in such classes, the better they do academically. A new paper by Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development researchers challenges that assumption.  Read More

A grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow John T. Wilson to explore ways to use recently developed nanoparticles to stimulate immunity pathways in children, with the aim of making immunotherapy treatments for neuroblastoma more effective. Read More

The Wallace Foundation recently awarded a four-year, $1.42 million grant to Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development and Mathematica for a new study to expand knowledge about assistant principals and provide new insights on how the role can help diversify the principal profession and advance educational equity.  Read More

Assistant Provost for Residential Education and Associate Dean for Residential Colleges Jill Stratton hosted a leadership development series during the spring 2022 semester for the University College Leadership Council, a group of student leaders from the upper-division residential colleges. Read More

Vanderbilt was one of 41 institutions selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges and Universities 2022 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success. The virtual learning experience was designed to facilitate building institutional capacity to achieve quality, equity and student engagement goals through the design, implementation and assessment of active teaching and learning practices. Read More

National Voter Registration Day is Tuesday, Sept. 20. Vanderbilt students, staff and faculty are encouraged to register to vote using the online TurboVote platform or in person at events on campus.  Read More

The Arts, Discovery and Innovation Fund is now open to all full-time faculty across all disciplines and all provost-reporting staff who would like to work with the National Museum of African American Music on educational and research projects. The deadline for fall submissions is Oct. 14. Read More

Alex Jahangir, professor of orthopaedic surgery and chair of Nashville’s COVID-19 Task Force, and Wes Ely, Grant W. Liddle Professor and professor of medicine, will discuss their pandemic-related books on Tuesday, Sept. 20, as part of a panel hosted by the Department of Medicine, Health and Society’s “Hot Topics” series. Read More

Hear Vanderbilt's premier wind ensemble perform beloved works by distinguished composers Percy Grainger, William Grant Still and Vincent Persichetti on Friday, Sept. 23, in Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center will host a special lecture, "Designing Multi-user Collaboration and Learning Technology for Neurodiverse Groups," on Monday, Sept. 19, from 4:10 to 5:10 p.m. at One Magnolia Circle, Room 241, and online. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies will host a public symposium, “Critical Field Reflections: The Project of Connecting Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies,” Sept. 22–23. The two-day program will feature book talks, presentations and a roundtable discussion with scholars from UC Davis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, SUNY Buffalo and UCLA. Read More

Space 204 and the Vanderbilt, Arts and the Middle East: Building Bridges to the Global and the Local curatorial program present Entropic Systems, a solo exhibition from Iranian artist Laleh Mehran. The exhibition, on view through Oct. 20, features an immersive video/audio experience surrounding an engineered drawing piece activated by the movement of gallery visitors. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are seeking children currently in kindergarten, with or without reading disabilities and English as their first language, for a study about brain development and reading in kindergartners. Read More

Human Resources’ Employee Learning and Engagement team unlocks the potential of every Vanderbilt employee by offering innovative and meaningful learning experiences, creating space to foster conversations and connections, and encouraging a culture of learning and growth. Read More

Latin American/Hispanic Heritage Month, recognized annually from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, honors the history, cultural diversity and unique contributions of individuals and communities whose ancestry can be traced to Spain, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff will celebrate the month with a series of programs and events. Read More

Update: Due to the popularity of this event, Human Resources is making 500 additional tickets available. Get yours while supplies last. HR invites all employees and their families to attend the Homecoming football game vs. Ole Miss at FirstBank Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 8. Gates will open at 1 p.m., and kickoff is at 3 p.m. Read More

Neuroblastoma is one of the most common—and lethal—forms of childhood cancer, accounting for 15 percent of pediatric cancer deaths each year. (Despite the name, neuroblastoma is not a form of brain cancer; it typically consists of tumors found in the abdomen, chest, neck, pelvis and bones.) Currently, children with neuroblastoma are treated with aggressive forms... Read More