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October 21, 2024
ATHLETICS
Vanderbilt football returns to AP Top 25 poll
Football players and Head Coach Clark Lea cheer in the locker room during the Ball State game.
For the first time since the conclusion of the 2013 season, Vanderbilt is ranked in the Associated Press Top 25. The Commodores are ranked No. 25 in the AP poll released Sunday, as well as No. 25 in the US LBM Coaches Poll. With a 5-2 mark, Vanderbilt is off to its best start since 2008 and has won its first four games at home for the first time since 1982. Read More
HUMANITIES
Vanderbilt secures four prestigious NEH grants
A collage of images of the projects that have received NEH grants. Top left: The Rokhl Brokhes Project (Yiddish on parchment). Top right: Faculty Commons, home of the Special Collections and University Archives. Bottom left: Jad Abumrad seated to the left of an old-school radio. Bottom right: A drawing of Roger Williams HBCU.
Vanderbilt University secured four National Endowment for the Humanities grants totaling $330,696 to support projects ranging from Yiddish literature to the preservation of Special Collections. The grants highlight Vanderbilt’s leadership in humanities research and were facilitated by the university’s Research Development and Support team within the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation. Read More
ARTS & SCIENCE
Center for Global Democracy awarded $12.5 million from USAID
The Center for Global Democracy logo sits atop an aerial image of the Earth.
The Center for Global Democracy has been awarded $12.5 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development to expand its research on democratic governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. The funds will be dispersed over the next five years to support activities related to the AmericasBarometer survey, a biennial study of more than two dozen countries in the Western Hemisphere through a citizen survey of social and political attitudes. Read More
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This Week at VU
 
Oct. 21, 2024
6 p.m. • Central Library Community Room
Vanderbilt Insight Debate: Restrictions on Speech and University Guest Speakers
Oct. 22, 2024
12:10 p.m. • Flynn Auditorium
Victor S. Johnson Lecture with ACLU President Deborah Archer
Oct. 24, 2024
7 a.m.–5 p.m. • Sarratt 325/327
Open Enrollment Info Lab 1
Upcoming Events
 
Oct. 26–27 | Southern Festival of Books

Oct. 30 | Open Enrollment Info Lab 2

Oct. 30 | Apex Lecture: 'Two Genomes, One Balance: Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Stability' with Agnel Sfeir
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Upgraded VUIT support options to be introduced this fall
 
ICYMI
Vanderbilt, Let’s Vote: A guide to the November ballot
 
Athletics
Vanderbilt soccer tallies its eighth shutout of the season
 
Safety
Vanderbilt University statement on Oct. 5 football fan celebration
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VU in the News
 
Inside Higher Ed: ‘Institutional Neutrality Applies to Actions—Not Just Words’
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier is featured.
 
Axios Nashville: Dave Matthews Band's Jeff Coffin reflects on Rock Hall induction
Jeff Coffin, adjunct instructor of jazz saxophone, is featured.
 
CNN: Girl Scout fees could soon triple in price. Members say the eye-popping number is out of reach for many families
Kelly Goldsmith, E. Bronson Ingram Professor and professor of marketing, is quoted.

Newsweek: Border agents reveal league table of gangs that plague America
Mariano Sana, associate professor of sociology, is quoted.
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