Author: Princine Lewis
Civil rights leader, candlelight vigil part of MLK Celebration at Vanderbilt Jan. 15-18
Jan. 11, 2016—The Rev. James Lawson, whom Martin Luther King Jr. called “the leading nonviolence theorist in the world,” will deliver the keynote address at Vanderbilt University’s MLK Day celebration Monday, Jan. 18. The theme for the commemoration is “Apathy to Action: Activism, Allyship and Anti-Racism.”
VUPD chief assists local university with campus safety plan
Dec. 2, 2015—With plans to draw on August Washinton’s more than 30 years of experience in college law enforcement, Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover has enlisted Vanderbilt’s associate vice chancellor and police chief to assist TSU in further developing its campus safety enhancement plan.
Center for Student Wellbeing, assistant director for access and inclusion at Psychological and Counseling Center announced
Nov. 30, 2015—Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has announced an immediate expansion in staff that have experience and skills working with people of varying racial and cultural backgrounds, and the opening of a new Center for Student Wellbeing.
Google Ideas director Jared Cohen to speak Nov. 12 at Vanderbilt
Nov. 11, 2015—Jared Cohen, founder and director of Google Ideas and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss “Digital Counterinsurgency: How to Marginalize the Islamic State Online."
Black student experience celebrated at Reunion and Homecoming at Vanderbilt
Oct. 21, 2015—A campus space designed to celebrate the history and contributions of black students at Vanderbilt opens, historically black sorority Delta Sigma Theta celebrates 40 years on campus, and the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center launches its AmbassaDores program on Friday, Oct. 23, during the university’s Reunion and Homecoming.
Annual Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University to focus on role of gender in genocide
Oct. 7, 2015—Now in its 38th year, Vanderbilt's 2015 Holocaust Lecture Series will focus on the gender dynamics among perpetrators, victims, bystanders and witnesses.
Nearly 300 college students team up for weekend of hacking Oct. 2-4
Oct. 1, 2015—Nearly 300 student hackers from Vanderbilt University and other locales will showcase the results of an intense weekend of hacking at an expo at Vanderbilt Oct. 4.
Nearly 300 students team up for weekend of hacking Oct. 2-4
Sep. 30, 2015—Nearly 300 college students from Vanderbilt and Purdue universities, the Atlanta area, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park will work around the clock during VandyHacks, an invention marathon.
VUPD launches SafeVU app
Sep. 25, 2015—SafeVU is a personalized communication platform that links Vanderbilt community members to the VUPD communications center in the event they need either emergency or nonemergency assistance.
Annual report on crime statistics, security and fire safety available Oct. 1
Sep. 24, 2015—The annual report provides information on security-related services offered by the university.
Healthy Masculinities Week begins Sept. 14
Sep. 11, 2015—The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center has developed a series of events designed to explore society’s notions of masculinity.
Sept. 11 remembrance scheduled for noon Friday
Sep. 9, 2015—At noon on Friday, four chimes will sound from the bell tower of Kirkland Hall symbolizing the four crash sites and solemnizing both the tragedy and the extraordinary heroism that define Sept. 11, 2001, as a day of both loss and unity.