Year: 2023

As Vanderbilt’s yearlong celebration of its 150th anniversary continues, the Office of the Chancellor has announced the second group of Sesquicentennial Grant award winners. Read More

For the second year running, the Vanderbilt Poll–Nashville shows more than half of respondents believe the city is on the wrong track. This trend is amplified by a plurality of respondents indicating the growth of the city is making their quality of life worse, rather than better or having no effect. Read More

Kevin Leach, assistant professor of computer science, has won an Amazon Research Award in the fall 2022 awards cycle. The Amazon funds will allow him to advance the state of the art in robust document understanding by developing new iterative methods for collecting and labeling training data. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will host Chancellor Daniel Diermeier for a discussion about his academic research, including highlights from his recently released fifth book, Reputation Analytics. The event will be on Wednesday, April 26, at 1:30 p.m. in the Central Library Community Room. Read More

For more than 50 years, Professor John Lachs’ thought-provoking philosophy lectures were perennial favorites among not only students, but alumni as well. Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core announces a new round of Community Scholars Awards for the 2023-2024 school year. The Community Scholars Award provides support for two graduate or post graduate trainees to perform a community engaged research project collaboratively with a community-based organization, during the academic school year. Read More

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Tod Wolters (Ret.) will open the 2023 Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats, scheduled for May 4–5. Read More

Vanderbilt University Public Safety has been alerted of several phone scams that have targeted parents and guardians of Vanderbilt students, in which the scammers pose as law enforcement in an attempt to coerce money from them.   Read More

The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center named five people from the Vanderbilt community as recipients of its annual awards for leadership, mentoring and the advancement of women at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Class of 2023 graduates Catherine Hobbs, Abhinav Krishnan and Joseph Sexton have been named Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellows for 2023–24. Unique to Vanderbilt, the $25,000 Keegan Traveling Fellowship aims to enhance the development of future leaders through a year of world travel, research and experiential learning. Read More

Volunteer for 2023 Commencement. The university has various volunteer opportunities still available for the Class of 2023’s main and undergraduate ceremonies on Friday, May 12.  Read More

Join HR Employee Learning and Engagement for our next Conversation Circle, a series for managers and leaders, on May 9 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The May discussion is specifically for those who are newer to managerial/leadership roles, as well as for established leaders who would like to share their experiences.   Read More

Krishnendu Roy, a Regents’ Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and a nationally renowned researcher, will be the next dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver announced today. Read More

This semester, Vanderbilt has begun stocking emergency epinephrine pens in dining halls across campus for those suffering from life-threatening allergic reactions.  Read More

Celebrate with the Vanderbilt bowling team and Commodores everywhere by purchasing the official 2023 National Champions t-shirt and other Vandy gear. Read More

Tennessee’s open COVID testing policy reduced actual COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Costs of expanded testing were so low that essentially any reduction in the number of deaths due to the policy would justify its cost. Read More

Justitia, an independent and nonpartisan think tank based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has opened its first U.S. location at Vanderbilt University. The expansion of the "The Future of Free Speech" project, led by Justitia CEO Jacob Mchangama, aims to advance the global culture of free speech. Read More

The Vanderbilt bowling team erased a 3-1 deficit and defeated Arkansas State on Saturday in Las Vegas to win the 2023 national championship, the third in the program's history. The team also won the national title in 2007 and 2018. Read More

Philip Walker, director of the Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center, has been invited to serve on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. Read More

On March 29, the Vanderbilt community celebrated the Vanderbilt Awards for Leadership Excellence in the Student Life Center Ballroom. During the ceremony, 19 student leaders and eight student organizations were presented with awards for their service to the community. Read More