Year: 2022

The Education and Brain Sciences Research Laboratory is seeking children 8 to 20 years old with reading disabilities with neurofibromatosis type 1. Read More

The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is requesting proposals for Employee Affinity Groups for 2022–23. Employee Affinity Groups are employee-led and -facilitated groups formed around interests, backgrounds, identities and common bonds. Read More

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver has appointed a committee to conduct a national search for the next dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. The committee includes faculty members, deans, an alumnus and a current student. Read More

The vice chancellors with Chancellor Daniel Diermeier prior to Commencement From left, Board of Trust members Kito Huggins, Bruce Evans, Jennifer Frist and Adolpho Birch III prior to Commencement Commencement took place at Vanderbilt Stadium for the second consecutive year. From left,… Read More

Vanderbilt research that promotes the anti-inflammatory pathway in macrophages could also reduce some of the bad side effects of obesity. Read More

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and generates robust immune responses in children ages 6 to 11 years, a national clinical trial co-led by C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, has found. Read More

The Nashville Department of Transportation is working in partnership with WeGo Public Transit, the Nashville Downtown Partnership and the Tennessee Department of Transportation to make getting through downtown easier with the Connect Downtown project. We encourage Vanderbilt community members to take this survey about how you get around downtown to ensure that Vanderbilt perspectives are well represented. Read More

Leaders at the forefront of systemic change make a difference by thinking about how to shift old patterns that have kept people marginalized. Thirteen students nominated by deans across Vanderbilt this year got the chance to engage in such big-picture thinking as participants in the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership’s interprofessional student fellowship. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School Board of Advisors member W. Weldon Wilson, JD’86, and his wife, Elaine, have documented a $17.5 million bequest to support their existing Weldon Wilson Scholarship at Vanderbilt Law School. The scholarship was established in 2011 in honor of Weldon’s 25th reunion. Read More

For the 2022 cycle, six Vanderbilt biomedical Ph.D. students and one undergraduate student in a biomedical lab were awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Additionally, five biomedical Ph.D. students received an honorable mention. Read More

Peabody College graduate students Sara Davis and Burcak Kaynar spent the spring semester conducting an analysis of the language of safety in Vanderbilt Campus Dining operations. In an effort to improve overall employee safety, they focused on the use of large machines in Campus Dining facilities by multilingual employees. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s second Excellence in Podcasting competition was held during the spring 2022 semester. Awards were presented in April to the students whose podcast submissions exemplified the goals of the competition: using audio storytelling to communicate ideas, share perspectives, make arguments and persuade others. Read More

Christopher M.S. Johns, the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Fine Arts and professor of history of art and architecture, died at his home on May 8 after a long illness. Read More

Rising seniors Alexandra Duncan, Andrew Hanna and Ethan Nguyen have been named 2022 Barry A. Goldwater Scholars, joining 2021 Goldwater Scholar and fellow rising senior Joseph Sexton. The Goldwater Scholarship is the nation’s most competitive scholarship for undergraduate STEM students who show exceptional promise for becoming the nation’s next generation of research leaders. Read More

An offering from HR Employee Learning and Engagement invites VU employees to explore how they can apply design thinking to their lives and careers. Read More

The Vanderbilt University COVID-19 testing center at the David Williams II Recreation and Wellness Center will close operations for the summer, beginning May 16. Because of the reduced population and continued low positivity rates on campus, the asymptomatic testing program is also suspended. Read More

U.S. Cyber Command Director Gen. Paul Nakasone, former President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid and a range of military and intelligence leaders, scholars, prominent journalists and private sector experts in cybersecurity, energy and finance convened at the Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats May 4–5. Read More

Vanderbilt Health Plus will sponsor the Employee Health and Fitness Day Fair on Wednesday, May 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Light Hall North Lobby. Read More

Vanderbilt research shows that the virus that causes COVID-19 can develop partial resistance to the antiviral drug remdesivir during infection of cultured cells in the laboratory by more than one mechanism.   Read More

Join HR Employee Learning and Engagement on Wednesday, May 25, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. CT for “CliftonStrengths for VU Employees.” Read More