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Join the Vanderbilt Master of Public Health Program, along with students, faculty and staff from across the university and Medical Center, to discuss issues important to improving health and wellness in our community and around the world. Read More

There are different types of anxiety, but they all limit a child’s ability to function. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Spring Faculty Assembly is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in Langford Auditorium. All faculty are encouraged to attend. Read More

Yolanda J. McDonald applies a geographic lens to questions about health disparities, examining how race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status and where people live affect their physical health. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit one application to the Aetna Cultivating Healthy Communities grant program. The program is geared specifically toward nonprofit organizations that work with underserved, low-income and minority populations in the contiguous United States. Read More

The second annual Vanderbilt Football Spring Showcase, the team's featured practice of spring drills, is scheduled for Saturday, March 24, and will feature activities for Commodore fans of all ages. Read More

Margaret Livingstone, Ph.D., the Takeda Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, will present this year's final Neuroscience Graduate Seminar Series Lecture on March 28. Read More

Registration is open for the 2018 Tennessee Disability MegaConference, to be held May 24–25 at the Nashville Airport Marriott. This year’s theme is “Rising Strong Together.” Read More

The next Open Dore On Location is scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at the Wond'ry Innovation Center, Room 104. All faculty and staff are invited to attend this informal discussion session with Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente. Read More

Arnold Malcolm, MD, MBA, left, Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, and André Churchwell, MD, pose with the portrait of Malcolm that was unveiled at a special reception last week honoring his career accomplishments and service to the Medical Center and School of Medicine. Read More

Country music singers and friends of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Jake Owen and Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley, recently partnered with the new Topgolf Nashville location for the Children’s Cup, an evening of golf and music to benefit pediatric cancer research at Children’s Hospital. Read More

New research by Vanderbilt nephrologists highlights potential barriers that may prevent black Americans from being screened for kidney disease. Read More

The Shared Governance Committee has released a draft report of its work and invites feedback from all faculty ahead of a pair of town hall meetings scheduled for March 22 and 27. Read More

Michael Mann, a Distinguished Professor at Penn State whose work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change led to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, will give a talk beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20. Read More

The next Enabling Innovation Initiative (el2) lecture will feature MIT's Dane Wittrup discussing "Respecting Expertise: How Humility and a Decade of Effort Built the Best Antibody Discovery Platform." The talk is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, March 23, in Light Hall, Room 214. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may submit one nominee per major school/division for the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program. Read More

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Executive Director Mona Frederick and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Federal Relations Christina West met with congressional delegates at the National Humanities Alliance’s recent annual meeting and advocacy day in Washington, D.C. Read More

The Vanderbilt Program in Classical and Mediterranean Studies presents Gideon Avni, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority, who will address "The Archaeology of Interactions: Christians, Jews and Muslims in Late Antique Palestine and Jerusalem" beginning at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, in Cohen Memorial Hall, Room 203. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Commencement 2018 is scheduled for May 9–11, and your help is needed to make the event a success. Read More

Nominations are due April 15 for the university's top faculty awards, which demonstrate the university's appreciation for and commitment to excellence. Read More