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The Community Scholars Program is sponsored by the Meharry-Vanderbilt (MV) Community Engaged Research Core (CERC) to support Community Engaged Research. The Program provides support for two graduate or post graduate trainees. The Scholars will be required to perform a community engaged research project with a community partner during the academic year.  Read More

The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center is an affirming space for women and for all members of the Vanderbilt community that actively resists sexism and all forms of oppression by providing resources and educational programming. Read More

Goals of the working group will include planning for an institution-wide laser safety program, compiling inventories of lab and non-lab spaces and equipment, and defining required training for university personnel. Read More

A Nicholas Hobbs Discovery Grant and a Director’s Strategic Priorities Grant have been awarded to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center investigators for 2019-20. The grants aim to further understanding of how social information is processed within the reward circuit and explore the creation of an objective measure of social information processing. Read More

Heidi Hamm and colleagues have reported the first animal model of a "shut-off valve" for neurotransmitter and hormone release through SNARE complex-mediated membrane fusion. Read More

Renowned writer Ted Chiang will visit campus to offer two talks March 18-19. Read More

Audrey Ellerbee Bowden has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, “for achievements in optical coherence tomography.” Read More

In search of a two-day intensive program to help you understand how to create operational excellence for your team or organization? Take our Achieving Operational Excellence program and bring back actionable strategies to your team. Read More

Monday’s weekly seminars are on a cutting-edge topics in cell or developmental biology, as well as stem cell and epithelial biology. Read More

Vanderbilt Child and Family Center will be hosting Emily Harlan from Home Instead Senior Care at the next caregiver support group on Wednesday, March 13 from 12 p.m. -1 p.m. in Light Hall room 431.  Read More

C. Elton Hinshaw, an emeritus professor of economics at Vanderbilt who is remembered for his distinguished service to the university, died Feb. 24 in Nashville. He was 82. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may choose one nominee for the V Foundation 2019 Translational Cancer Research Grant Program. The Translational Research award is a $600,000 grant awarded in three annual installments of $200,000. Indirect costs up to a maximum of 10 percent are permitted (total costs, including indirects, must not exceed $600,000.) Read More

Kevin R. Ward, executive director, Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC), is the featured speaker for the Enabling Innovation Initiative Seminar on Friday, March 15 at 3:00 p.m. in 202 Light Hall.  Read More

The Program in Jewish Studies presents Art is My Weapon, a performance/lecture from David Shneer of the University of Colorado and singer Jewlia Eisenberg. Read More

The eighth annual Advanced Imaging Mass Spectrometry laboratory course is scheduled for April 9–12 at Vanderbilt University. This is a unique educational opportunity designed to teach the procedures of MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry. The format includes both lectures and hands-on workshops with time dedicated to on-site demos from instrument vendors.  Read More

An enthusiastic and energetic crowd came out for the Employee Appreciation pre-game Fan Fest on Sunday, March 3, prior to the Vanderbilt women’s basketball game against the Florida Gators. Read More

The Rev. Amy Steele, assistant dean for student life at Vanderbilt Divinity School, will discuss single parenthood at the next meeting of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center’s Parenting Group. Read More

Menachem Elimelech, an internationally recognized scholar of membrane-based technologies for next-generation desalination and water purification, will deliver the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture on March 13. Read More

Looking for a summer job on campus? Events at Vanderbilt is now accepting applications for summer positions.  Read More

Vanderbilt University Press is holding a spring sale during March, to celebrate the new shopping cart feature of their website. All books are 40 percent off. Read More