Year: 2024

The latest annual sustainability report, released by Environmental Health, Safety and Sustainability in the Division of Administration, details Vanderbilt’s fiscal year 2023 sustainability efforts that support the university’s overall sustainability goals.   Read More

The Dialogue Vanderbilt Public Debate Series is scheduled to kick off with a public debate on Friday, Feb. 2, at 6 p.m. The debate tournament will follow on Saturday and Sunday.  Read More

Dialogue Vanderbilt recently hosted an insightful fireside chat between Rabbi David J. Wolpe and Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean Yolanda Pierce. The Jan. 18 event was part of a series organized by Dialogue Vanderbilt that aims to foster open discussions about faith and how it influences people dealing with pressing societal issues.  Read More

This semester, embark on a journey of professional growth with the HR Employee Learning and Engagement team’s virtual, in-person and self-paced learning experiences.   Read More

A study by Vanderbilt biology graduate student Lindsay Martin and Centennial Professor of Biological Sciences Julián Hillyer found that mosquitoes age more quickly when temperatures are higher. This aging, in turn, weakens the mosquito immune system and makes them more likely to get infected with disease. Read More

The Curb Center is pleased to announce the Vanderbilt Eco-Grief Initiative, a yearlong collaborative project that will use art as a tool to investigate the complex set of emotions—sorrow, guilt, terror, complicity and a range of others—that come to mind as we contemplate our changing climate and witness its effects on earthly life. By engaging artists working in a range of disciplines—theater, creative writing and the visual arts—the Curb Center aims to highlight creative work that confronts the emotional dimensions of climate change with the hope that true emotional reckoning might serve as an avenue to candid dialogue, innovation and lasting impact. Read More

David Hercules, Centennial Professor of Chemistry emeritus, who served as the chair of the Department of Chemistry for eight years, died January 20, 2024, after a battle with cancer. He was 91. Read More

Vanderbilt community members recently received marketing materials in the mail for a Retirement Planning University event on Monday, Jan. 29, and Tuesday, Jan. 30. Strategic Wealth Investment Group LLC, a Vanderbilt Athletics sponsor, is hosting the two-night event; it is not sponsored by the university. Read More

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier has joined a group of university presidents leading diverse institutions from across the country in a new initiative to address civic engagement and promote civil discourse on college campuses and beyond. The College Presidents for Civic Preparedness, a new initiative convened by The Institute for Citizens and Scholars, aims to leverage collective wisdom and collaborative strategies to cultivate a new generation of empowered, democratic-minded citizens.    Read More

Melissa Gresalfi has been reappointed as Vanderbilt University’s dean of residential colleges and residential education and dean of The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. Read More

John C. Kornblum, distinguished ambassador in residence and writer in residence for the Max Kade Center for European & German Studies, died Dec. 21, 2023, in Nashville. He was 80. Read More

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has designated Vanderbilt University as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research, positioning the university as a premier institution for cyber-related education and innovation. Read More

Effective Jan. 1, 2024, Vanderbilt will match up to 6 percent of your retirement plan contributions. This includes a 3 percent match of your mandatory contribution and up to 3 percent match of your voluntary contribution. Read More

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has designated Vanderbilt University as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research, positioning the university as a premier institution for cyber-related education and innovation. Each year, cybercrime grows as a threat to national security and vital U.S. interests around the world. In addition to the rise of increasingly... Read More

Maha Elgenaidi, founder and executive director of the Islamic Networks Group, will visit Vanderbilt’s Rothschild Black Box Theater next month for a conversation with Divinity School Dean Yolanda Pierce. The discussion is expected to explore Elgenaidi’s perspective on the Israel-Hamas conflict and the theological context and historical backdrop shaping it, along with her advice on effective communication practices around deeply personal and polarizing topics. Read More

  Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University) Luis Leyva, associate professor of mathematics education and STEM higher education at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, was recently recognized  by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education and Out in STEM (oSTEM) for his research contributions that promote educational… Read More

The Tennessee Education Research Alliance (TERA) released a series of four briefs that highlight key findings from the 2023 Tennessee Educator Survey on teacher recruitment and retention, school counselors, school leader experiences, and mental health in Tennessee schools. TERA is a research-practice partnership at… Read More

Steven Wernke, associate professor and chair of anthropology, has developed GeoPACHA (Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History and Archaeology), a web application that allows researchers to map archaeological sites in the Andes at a greater scale than ever before. GeoPACHA has enabled new discoveries about past human occupation in the region that will be featured in six articles in the February issue of the journal Antiquity. Read More

Mohammed AlQuraishi, assistant professor at Columbia University, will give an Apex Lecture on Monday, Jan. 29, at 12:00 p.m. CT in 214 Light Hall. His talk, “The State of Protein Structure Prediction and Friends,” is hosted by the School of Medicine Basic Sciences and co-sponsored by the Center for Applied AI in Protein Dynamics. Read More

In the face of a historic snowfall on Jan. 15, Vanderbilt University staff worked diligently to ensure necessary university operations continued to run during the week of winter weather. Read More