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August 19, 2024
WELCOME WEEK 2024
Take a look: Vanderbilt University welcomes new and returning students to campus
Collage of photos from Move In 2024.
Vanderbilt has welcomed 1,630 first-year students and 368 transfer students to campus. See highlights of the start of the school year excitement. Read More
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES
Get to know Vanderbilt’s residential faculty: Emily Pendergrass
Emily Pendergrass with her husband Josh at their new home, Carmichael College.
In this special series, we're getting to know the university’s newest faculty heads of house and heads of college. In this edition, we meet Emily Pendergrass, associate professor of the practice and director of the Reading Education program in the Department of Teaching and Learning, who is the faculty head of Oliver C. Carmichael College. Read More
CURB CENTER
Curb Scholars Program welcomes five new scholars
An image of the front of the Curb Center sits atop headshots of the new Curb Scholars.
The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy has selected three incoming first-year students and two rising sophomore students for the Curb Scholars Program in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership. Read More
Founders Walk 2024
It was a beautiful night to celebrate Founders Walk ✨ #VU2028
This Week at VU
 
Aug. 21, 2024
4 p.m. • Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center
Reception for Women Faculty
Aug. 22, 2024
4:10 p.m. • Student Life Center
Fall Faculty Assembly
Upcoming Events
 
Aug. 24 | Dore Jam
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ICYMI
Vanderbilt updates freedom of expression policies and expands civil discourse programming
 
Campus Dining
Vanderbilt Campus Dining welcomes 8th & Roast as official coffee partner
 
Belonging
WATCH: VU Staff Q&A Series – Chad Novak, Residential Colleges
 
Research
Youths ages 10-16 with autism sought for study on theatre intervention and social skills
 
Campus Dining
Flex Meal Deal returns for faculty, staff, graduate and professional students
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VU in the News
 
The Wall Street Journal: Campus protests pushed Ivy League presidents out. How leaders are holding on.
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier is quoted.
 
The Washington Post: Chicago’s migrant crisis in spotlight as Democrats prepare for convention
John Sides, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and professor of political science, is quoted.
 
Associated Press: Tennessee family’s lawsuit says video long kept from them shows police force, not drugs, killed son
Christopher Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Professor and professor of law, is quoted.

The Tennessean: Marsha Blackburn's anti-trans ad aired during the Olympics. It was divisive and dishonest
Malcolm Getz, professor of economics, emeritus, authored this opinion piece.
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