Year: 2023

Human Resources Employee Learning and Engagement will present “CliftonStrengths for Leaders” on Tuesday, March 7, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. This session will provide insights and actions for you to build a strengths-based approach to leadership and employee engagement. Read More

Vanderbilt professor Sruthi Thatchenkery addresses the complexity of competition and innovation in platform ecosystems with new research. Read More

Climate change is a major driver of job creation in the Southeast and around the world. Vanderbilt University will host a discussion about the growth of the clean economy and smart jobs in the region on Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Student Life Center Board of Trust Room. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may choose one nominee for the V Foundation 2023 Adult Translational Cancer Research (Therapeutic Resistance) Grants Program. Read More

On Feb. 3, 2023, President Joe Biden announced his intent to appoint Vanderbilt Board of Trust member Corey Thomas, BE'98, as one of 14 new members of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Here Thomas shares his thoughts on leadership, success and workplace culture. Read More

Four researchers from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development are among those named to Education Week's 2023 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, an annual list of education researchers who have demonstrated the greatest influence over educational policy and practice. Read More

China’s modernization, “passion and fashion” in 19th-century Paris, singing in a musical ensemble, and steps to writing a memoir. Registration is now open for these and other engaging courses offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt for spring 2023. Read More

Nashville Mayor John Cooper’s Sustainability Advisory Committee is seeking photographs that represent Nashville’s environmental successes and opportunities. Photos may include a range of environmental issues, impacts or solutions. Read More

Join HR Employee Learning and Engagement on March 2nd from 3:00-4:30 p.m. for: Say “Yes” to Leadership! This session will help explore ways that supervisors and managers can build an environment that encourages leadership.  Read More

Having already released a handful of singles, junior English major Amelia Day was ready to take the next step as an artist and develop her first project under a single sound and concept. Day decided to make the creation of her first EP her Immersion Vanderbilt project, opening access to mentorship and funding opportunities to support her dream. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School is launching a new interdisciplinary program, the Weaver Family Program in Law, Brain Sciences and Behavior, funded by a $3.85 million endowment from the Glenn M. Weaver Foundation. The new program will sponsor faculty research aimed at exploring law and human behavior across a broad spectrum of medical, biological and social science fields. Read More

Vanderbilt researcher Amanda Lea, along with a global team of experts, has discovered new pathways of natural selection in humans. Read More

Philippe Fauchet, the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering at Vanderbilt University, met with members of Congress last week while in Washington, D.C., to emphasize the integral role that engineering research plays in strengthening the United States’ competitiveness and security. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a panel discussion, “Confronting Hate: Antisemitism and Racism,” on Tuesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in the Central Library Community Room. The discussion will address the historical links between antisemitism and other forms of racism and their contemporary resonances in the United States today. Read More

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, who represented Ohio’s 13th Congressional District for 20 years, will visit Vanderbilt to discuss his efforts to work across party lines at an event hosted by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. This in-person-only event will be in Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

Following the tragic shootings at Michigan State University on Feb. 13 that left three students dead and five students critically injured, Vanderbilt leaders have offered their support for the Michigan State community and are reminding students, staff and faculty of resources available to them on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth’s annual KIDS COUNT State of the Child report features information from the 2022 Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap created by the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. The State of the Child report… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering professor Carlos Silvera Batista has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to understand the behavior of charged particles in the presence of simultaneous electric fields. That knowledge will be used to direct the assembly of particles into advanced reconfigurable materials. Read More

Vanderbilt computer scientist Abhishek Dubey has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to design online decision procedures for societal-scale cyber-physical systems, such as the traffic networks, emergency response systems and power grids that are the critical infrastructure of  communities. Read More

Vanderbilt University engineering professor Jonathan Brunger has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to understand how cells and biomaterials can work together to improve tissue regeneration. Read More