Year: 2022
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Seven Vanderbilt faculty elected as AAAS fellows in 2021
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver joins six others at Vanderbilt as 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Read MoreJan 26, 2022
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Campus Planning and Construction summer project requests due by Feb. 15
Campus Planning and Construction is implementing a Feb. 15 deadline for summer 2022 project submissions due to the supply chain and labor shortage issues that are heavily impacting the construction industry nationwide. Read MoreJan 26, 2022
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Research conversation to explore relationship between urban communities, schools, student outcomes Feb. 11
Vanderbilt Peabody College professor Maury Nation will discuss his research on the relationship between urban communities and schools and how urban social problems affect student outcomes during a virtual event on Friday, Feb. 11. The talk is open to all, but advance registration is requested. Read MoreJan 26, 2022
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Join the Health Plus Step for Your Heart Challenge
Compete with colleagues or just have fun recording your steps to celebrate heart health for a chance to win great prizes. The more steps you accumulate, the more prize drawing entries you achieve. Read MoreJan 26, 2022
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ELE live learning experience: ‘CliftonStrengths for VU Employees’ Feb. 2
The HR Employee Learning and Engagement team invites you to engage in a live virtual learning experience designed exclusively for the Vanderbilt community and led by the ELE team. Read MoreJan 26, 2022
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ELE live learning experience: ‘Digital Body Language’ Feb. 1
The HR Employee Learning and Engagement team invites you to engage in a live virtual learning experience designed exclusively for the Vanderbilt community and led by the ELE team. Read MoreJan 26, 2022
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ELE live learning experience: ‘Atomic Habits’ Jan. 31
The HR Employee Learning and Engagement team invites you to engage in a live virtual learning experience designed exclusively for the Vanderbilt community and led by the ELE team. Read MoreJan 26, 2022
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Breakthrough measurements/theory of vibrating atoms in nanostructures ushers in new class of technology
Vanderbilt researchers Sokrates Pantelides and Joshua Caldwell are part of an international collaboration that has demonstrated a new way to manipulate and measure subtle atomic vibrations in nanomaterials. This breakthrough could make it possible to develop customized functionalities to improve on and build new technologies. Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt University) Joshua Caldwell (Vanderbilt University) Electron beams... Read MoreJan 26, 2022
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Digital Commons announces spring events providing faculty development on digital skills
The Digital Commons has announced a number of spring workshops and panels for faculty interested in learning to use digital technologies and tools in their professional work. Read MoreJan 25, 2022
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Ideator program at the Wond’ry receives endowment from Sullivan family
Ideator, a highly rated program designed to help faculty, students and staff members from Nashville-area colleges and universities evaluate promising ideas, has been endowed by Eric Sullivan, CEO of Quantum Technology, and his wife, Teri Steele, in honor of their family. Read MoreJan 25, 2022
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Ph.D. student mentors undergrads on weeklong STEMSEAS expedition
Miguel Moravec, a Vanderbilt Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, recently helped introduce a group of community college students from Washington to a wide range of NSF-funded research at sea, including geoscience, oceanography and engineering, through the STEMSEAS program. Read MoreJan 24, 2022
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Seven awards given in inaugural Evolutionary Studies Initiative pilot grant program
The Evolutionary Studies Initiative has awarded seven grants to researchers in the initiative to seed new projects and collaborations. Read MoreJan 24, 2022
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2021 W-2s now available
Vanderbilt University employees may now view their 2021 W-2 forms in Oracle Cloud. Paper copies of W-2s for those who did not make the “electronic only” election in Oracle have been mailed to the resident address on file. Read MoreJan 24, 2022
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Book talk Jan. 24: ‘The Spirit of Our Work’
Cynthia Dillard, the newly appointed dean of the College of Education at Seattle University, will discuss her book, "The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)member," at a virtual event on Monday, Jan. 24. Dillard’s talk is sponsored by the Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Read MoreJan 23, 2022
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VERA offers training resources for faculty
Sponsored Programs Administration, within the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, continues to support the Vanderbilt research community’s transition to VERA through the VERA training page and FAQs page, the dissemination of training materials, and regularly scheduled training sessions. Read MoreJan 23, 2022
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Brain Blast 2022 is March 26
Brain Blast, the Vanderbilt Brain Institute’s annual family-oriented outreach event, is slated for Saturday, March 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the downtown Nashville Public Library. Read MoreJan 23, 2022
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Inaugural Vanderbilt Critical Psychiatry Conference spurred by student’s research interest into depressive behaviors
When Joseph Sexton’s friend died by suicide in high school, Sexton channeled his grief into a research quest to better understand depressive behaviors. The Georgia native started studying the systems and molecular neuroscience behind mood. By his senior year of high school, he was doing research at Georgia… Read MoreJan 21, 2022
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Commodores Care period to end Jan. 24
The Commodores Care period will end as scheduled at 8 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 24. At that time, we will return to our normal operations, with enhanced safety protocols. Read MoreJan 21, 2022
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Scenes from Vanderbilt’s first week of classes
Many members of the Vanderbilt community returned to campus on Tuesday, Jan. 18, for the first day of spring semester classes for a number of Vanderbilt’s schools and colleges. Read MoreJan 21, 2022
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Solar farm groundbreaking advances Vanderbilt’s large-scale renewable energy partnership
A bold partnership that will help Vanderbilt University power its campus entirely through renewable energy has moved forward with the Jan. 19 groundbreaking for a solar farm in Bedford County, Tennessee. Read MoreJan 21, 2022