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As we approach the end of the calendar year, we’re asking all Vanderbilt employees to take a few minutes to confirm that your personal information in Oracle is accurate. This quick review ensures your W-2 is prepared correctly and delivered without delay.  Read More

The Vanderbilt Graduate Student Council has announced the winners of the 2025 Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards, which honor the hard work and leadership of Vanderbilt graduate students schoolwide. Awards were presented at an awards ceremony in April of this year. The awards recognize outstanding service, mentorship, departmental leadership, student advocacy, research and best overall. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Human Research Protection Program will launch the third and final phase of its institutional review board transition on Jan. 1, 2026, inviting eligible studies to move from Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s IRB to Vanderbilt’s new social, behavioral and educational research IRB. Read More

Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, professor of human-centered learning technologies and director of the IDEA lab, was selected for the competitive Amazon Web Services  Education Equity Initiative for her work with Adventures in AI, a suite of tools that lets elementary students not only learn how to use AI,… Read More

Dean Camilla P. Benbow Traditional college-aged students, working professionals, preschool through 12th grade learners—at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, we teach all of them and advance discoveries that improve their educational experiences. While much of this work takes place on campus, Peabody’s value extends to classrooms and… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Office of Emergency Management will host its annual tabletop exercise on Thursday, Dec. 4, reinforcing the university’s ongoing commitment to campus safety and emergency preparedness. Read More

In celebration of GIS Day on Nov. 19, the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ GIS Lab created “Mapping Vanderbilt’s Past, Present, Future,” an interactive story map that documents how the university’s campus has been imagined, built, contested and reshaped across its 150-year history. Read More

The following speech was delivered by Peabody Distinguished Alumna Sharon Shields, PhD’76, at Peabody Diploma Ceremonies on May 8, 2025. Her remarks have been lightly edited for context. Sharon Shields and Camilla Benbow, Peabody College Doctor of Education Degree Ceremony at the Peabody Esplanade on May 09, 2025. (Photo… Read More

All faculty are invited to the Faculty Senate meeting on Thursday, Dec. 4, at the Faculty Commons Building at 1101 19th Ave. S. All faculty are invited, but only members of the senate will be asked to vote. The meeting is from 4:10 to 5:30 p.m., and there will be a reception afterward in the first-floor Faculty Lounge. Read More

Vanderbilt University is taking the next step in its long-term efforts to build an innovation neighborhood by filing a Specific Plan application with the Nashville Planning Department to reshape 40 underutilized acres on the campus’s western edge into a mixed-use, pedestrian-first hub for research, collaboration and entrepreneurship. Read More

It’s tiiiiiime! No holiday shopping is complete without the 2025 Vanderbilt Holiday Gift Guide.  We’ve done the curating, so you can do the shopping. This guide includes gifts for everyone, from proud students and alums to fantastic faculty and staff.  Explore stylish apparel, spirited drinkware and timeless accessories that add a… Read More

After an enthusiastic reception to its first round of public programming, Vanderbilt University–New York City hosted a second series of events this fall, further demonstrating its commitment to building community and fostering connection in the city. The events, a continuation of the “Vanderbilt in the City: Conversations on America” series, brought faculty and thought leaders together for conversations that explored the sacred elements of jazz and the influence of AI on the university landscape Read More

Student Affairs Belonging and Communities has launched the T.H.R.I.V.E. Grant , a seed funding initiative designed to foster connection, creativity and intentional engagement for students across campus. Applications for the spring funding cycle are open and will be accepted through Friday, Jan. 9.  Read More

Vanderbilt University served as the convening host for a major World Economic Forum gathering on Monday, Nov. 10, bringing leaders from government, industry, academia and civil society to Nashville for a full day of discussion on how states and regions can navigate a rapidly changing national and global environment. The program, “Regional Leadership in a New Global Context,” explored emerging trends shaping the future of workforce development, energy, health care, technology and national security.   Read More

By Jennifer Kiilerich Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens When Vanderbilt researcher Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens learned about a new all-girls secondary school, located not far from Vanderbilt University, she quickly saw how its mission aligned with her own work. She set about fostering a collaboration that would connect young learners to her… Read More

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small black hole tried to pass through your body? An article by Professor of Physics Robert Scherrer in the International Journal of Modern Physics D poses and answers that very question. Scherrer set out to find what the gravitational effects would be if a primordial black hole passed through the human body, helping scientists better understand the properties of dark matter. Read More

A new potential treatment for schizophrenia discovered through the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery has entered phase 1 clinical trials, marking the fifth WCNDD therapeutic to advance into human testing. Read More

A new study led by Aditya Kurre, BA’22, and Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Guggenheim Fellow Larisa DeSantis has revealed the specific diet of two species of giant ground sloth, uncovering the vital roles they played in their environments. Their findings could help scientists restore ecosystems that once thrived thanks to these massive mammals. Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty, postdocs and staff who use REDCap, the secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases, should set up new projects within the university’s dedicated REDCap instance beginning Nov. 18. This new instance, which is supported by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, is exclusively for university users and retains the same look and functionality as the version previously accessed through Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More