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April 29, 2024
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WATCH: These Class of 2024 students use ‘dare to grow’ passion to help others
Image text reads: "Daring to Grow: Pursuing a passion with a strong vision." The image features lass of 2024 graduating students (from left to right) Trey Ferguson, Schyler Rowland and Kaitlyn Browning.
Vanderbilt University’s motto, Crescere aude, is Latin for dare to grow. Meet members of the Class of 2024 with a unique passion and perspective on how to "Dare to Grow." Read More
FACULTY ACCOLADES
Prestigious honor supports historian’s upcoming project
Jefferson Cowie discusses his research.
Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, was recently honored with a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship—in part, in anticipation of his upcoming project, tentatively titled Crosswinds of a Common History, which will take a visionary approach to historical nonfiction. Read More
DIALOGUE VANDERBILT
The Future of Free Speech and Vanderbilt University to host the first annual Global Free Speech Summit
Image text reads: "SAVE THE DATE: Global Free Speech Summit, Oct. 17-18, 2024." with the logos for Vanderbilt University and The Future of Free Speech.
The first annual Global Free Speech Summit will bring together experts from academia, industry and civil society to tackle global challenges to free expression from governments, the private tech sector and cultural institutions. Read More
Three-image collage of students conducting research at the Native Meadow.
Tucked behind the 6 Magnolia Building on Vanderbilt’s Peabody Campus is what might look to some like a lush garden of weeds. In reality, it’s a strategic Native Meadow full of pollinator-friendly plants. The meadow has flourished since its inception, and many faculty, staff and students have found ways to collaborate and interact with the space.

Learn more about this "living lab" and how it's an example of teaching, research and learning aspirations intersecting with university values around sustainability and stewardship of the campus environment.
This Week at VU
 
April 30, 2024
3:30 p.m. • Owen Graduate School of Management, Averbuch Auditorium
Hall Engineering Lecture: 'Stories from Sea to Source: Reducing Plastic Pollution'
May 2, 2024
4:10–5:30 p.m. • Faculty Commons Building
Faculty Senate Meeting (Last of the Academic Year)
May 4, 2024
3–5:30 p.m. • Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Kathryn Plummer Retirement Celebration Concert
May 4, 2024
11:59 p.m. • University-wide
Deadline for Submission of Spring 2024 Final Grades
Upcoming Events
 
May 6 | Maymester Begins

May 6–31 | AI Summer 2024: Generative AI and AI-Assisted Programming Workshops
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Latest Headlines
 
Residential Colleges
New faculty appointed to lead residential colleges
 
School of Nursing
VUSN matching program to inspire philanthropy, drive research and work to ease health inequities
 
Nashville & Community
A powerful stage for learning: Vanderbilt and TPAC celebrate successful wrap of InsideOut events
 
Civil Discourse
Vanderbilt College Democrats and Republicans to host debate series in fall 2024
 
Campus
Signs of spring: VU Arboretum grows by 35 trees
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VU in the News
 
Time: Can Neosporin protect you from getting COVID-19?
James Crowe, Ann Scott Carell Professor and University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, is quoted.
 
Newsweek: America's retirement dream is dying
Alexandre Frenette, Cornelius Vanderbilt Dean's Faculty Fellow of College of Arts and Science and assistant professor of sociology, is quoted.
 
The New York Times: Senate committee investigates Ozempic and Wegovy costs
Stacie Dusetzina, professor of health policy, is quoted.

Variety: Wrangling the regulators: Hollywood’s urge to merge is dampened by antitrust policy debate in Washington
Luke Froeb, Professor William O. Oehmig Professor in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, emeritus, is quoted.
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