Communications And Marketing

Celebrate good health this holiday season with the Health Plus Hold the Stuffing challenge. Read More

The Office of Risk and Insurance Management will host a question-and-answer session Nov. 8. Enjoy light refreshments and door prizes in honor of National Risk Management Week, Nov. 7-11 Read More

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service reviews the limits for retirement plan contributions and makes necessary adjustments to reflect price and wage inflation. For the 2017 calendar year, the voluntary limits will remain the same. Read More

The Rev. Becca Stevens, Vanderbilt University’s Episcopal chaplain and the founder of the Magdalene residential communities, is among the 10 CNN Heroes finalists for 2016. Read More

In the first five years of life, a child’s linguistic, conceptual, and social competence grow enormously. Read More

Peabody College has launched an initiative designed to help early-career faculty thrive in all aspects of campus life and to guide them toward promotion and tenure. The R.A.C.E. (Research, Advocacy, Collaboration, Empowering) Mentoring project targets new and junior faculty members, and it is particularly useful for faculty of color. Peabody welcomed 14 new faculty this fall, 80 percent of whom are women and minorities. Read More

William Bell represents just one of the nearly 9,000 students whose lives have been changed by Opportunity Vanderbilt. Read More

Teaching children with disabilities play skills helps them interact with typically developing peers. Read More

Read the October issue of "The Open Dore," Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente’s newsletter, which is now available online. Read More

Students from the University Course "Historic Black Nashville" visited Fort Negley on Oct. 26 to gain a deeper understanding of the social, political and military forces central to Nashville and Middle Tennessee during the Civil War. Read More

The W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies hosted a viewing of Charles Baudelaire’s death mask on Oct. 28. Baudelaire was an important 19th-century French poet whose translations of Edgar Allan Poe into French are still considered the best to date. Read More

Open Enrollment for 2017 benefits ends at 11:59 p.m. Oct. 31. As a reminder, Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to choose or update the benefit options that best meet your and your family’s needs for 2017. Read More

Lectures scheduled for November 2016 and January and March 2017 will highlight the intersections of human health and environmental sustainability through the common bond of food. Read More

Vanderbilt's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have dropped 11 percent in one year and 27 percent from their 2008 peak, according to an updated inventory of the university’s GHG emissions release by Vanderbilt Facilities. Read More

New research from Peabody faculty Dale Farran and Mark Lipsey was the focus of an "Atlantic" story about pre-K expansion in the United States, while professor Ebony McGee and sociology doctoral student Stacey LaMar were featured in a "Christian Science Monitor" story about minority students in STEM graduate programs. Read a selection of Vanderbilt news stories for the week of Oct. 24. Read More

Join Shaul Cohen for a workshop, 'Can There Be Common Ground? Environment, Identity and Community in Palestine–Israel,' on Friday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m. Read More

Gary Butler, MS’94, founder, president and CEO of Camgian Microsystems Corporation, only attended the School of Engineering for two years, but the experience played a significant role in shaping his path to entrepreneurship. In addition to leading his successful company, Butler is the chair of the School of Engineering’s Board… Read More

On Oct. 27, a panel of education experts explored how policymakers, scholars and school leaders are still addressing the pressing questions and concerns raised by the Equality of Educational Opportunity study, popularly known as the Coleman Report. The event was co-sponsored by Vanderbilt’s Center for Nashville Studies; Community, Neighborhood and… Read More

Here's a look at Vanderbilt 2016 by the numbers—statistics, rankings, student information and more. Read More

November is Native American Heritage Month. Pazetta B. Mallette presents the culture, contributions and current issues facing Native Americans on Nov. 15 in 428 Light Hall. Read More