Limited Submission Opportunity: 2024 V Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Awards
Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may choose one nominee for the Pediatric Cancer Research Grant Program. Read More
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Limited Submission Opportunity: 2025 Macy Faculty Scholars Program
Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may nominate one candidate each from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program. Read More
WATCH: VU Staff Q&A Series – Dwayne V. Elliott, Arts & Campus Events
In a new series on the Vanderbilt Instagram account, students can get to know some of the dedicated staff who play a crucial role in creating a welcoming and supportive environment for them. This installment features Dwayne V. Elliott, the director of Arts & Campus Events in Student Affairs, who has worked at Vanderbilt for almost 20 years. Read More
Faculty honored for teaching, mentoring at Spring Assembly
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Faculty Senate Chair Andrea Capizzi presented awards to 10 faculty members who made a significant impact through scholarship, research, creative expression, service, teaching or mentoring during the April 11 Spring Faculty Assembly. Read More
Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center presents annual awards to five Vanderbilt community members
The Women's Center presents awards in three categories each year: the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center Leadership Award, the Mentoring Award and the Mary Jane Werthan Award. This spring, the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center named five people from the Vanderbilt community as recipients of its annual awards. Read More
Discovery Vanderbilt sends research soaring
On October 17, 2022, Vanderbilt University launched “Discovery Vanderbilt” to embolden faculty, students and staff to pursue innovative ideas through disciplined, rigorous inquiry. Led by Provost Cybele Raver, the university committed $80 million in the effort—and invested $50 million in the first year alone. Read More
Dan Russell: Care for Community
Dan Russell, sustainability coordinator intern in Auxiliary Services, teaches the Vanderbilt community about how people’s individual choices in using Earth's resources can affect our urban patch of Nashville and the planet on which we live. Read More
Vanderbilt scientist collaborates with Cajal Institute in Spain to train a bank of AI models to identify memory formation signals in the brain
The researchers, including Vanderbilt’s team led by Kari Hoffman, focused their efforts on the detection of hippocampal ripples, which are considered biomarkers of memory and are affected by epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease. Read More
Peabody faculty and alumna honored at AERA annual meeting
Ilana Horn Bethany Rittle-Johnson Chezare Warren Mariah Harmon Following Ilana Horn’s selection… Read More
Cowie named Guggenheim Fellow
The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a distinguished and diverse group of culture creators working across 52 disciplines. Jefferson Cowie, the James G. Stahlman Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, was named to this 99th class of Guggenheim Fellows. Read More
Resources now available for those experiencing or caring for someone with Long COVID
Vanderbilt is committed to keeping the university community safe and informed. Information, resources and avenues of support are now available on the Health and Wellness website for people living with or caring for someone with Long COVID. Read More
U.S. Cabinet official leads seminar on transgender health and policy
Adm. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, addressed transgender health and policy during a visit to… Read More
Shinn leads new study of cash payments and peer support to reduce homelessness
By Jenna Somers Infancy is the age at which someone is most likely to live in a homeless shelter. If that sounds surprising, consider… Read More
CLASS OF 2024: Emily Gaven builds team bonds, on and off the lacrosse field
WATCH: Lacrosse student athlete Emily Gaven came to Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management with big goals. Hear why she chose Vandy and what's next! Read More
Limited Submission Opportunity: First Horizon Foundation Grants for Good
Vanderbilt University may submit one application to the First Horizon Grants for Good Campaign. Read More
Limited Submission Opportunity: 2025 Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award
Vanderbilt (VU + VUMC, collaboratively) may nominate one associate or full professor to submit a Letter of Intent for the 2025 Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award (SIA). Read More
28 faculty honored at endowed chair investiture
The distinguished faculty members and deans representing eight colleges and schools were presented with medallions that symbolize the attainment of their positions and will become part of their official academic regalia. Chair holders contribute their expertise to real-world challenges, including climate change, political inequality and access to justice, artificial intelligence and ICU trauma. Read More
Get to Work: How Immersion Vanderbilt turns students into hands-on experts
Logan Glazier’s (Class of 2025) experience is what many educators might call the ideal result of education: the ability to take what’s learned in a classroom—be it something specific, like how to build a roof rack, or general, like critical thinking skills—and apply it in the outside world. That ideal is exactly why, when Vanderbilt rolled out a strategic plan in fall 2014, it put a greater focus on experiential learning. That plan emerged as Immersion Vanderbilt. Read More
Giving Day faculty and staff challenge to help Opportunity Vanderbilt students
Faculty and staff have a unique way to help Opportunity Vanderbilt students: When 500 faculty and staff members make a gift of any size for Giving Day, $25,000 from Suzanne and Patrick McGee will be unlocked for Opportunity Vanderbilt. Read More
Frist Center seeking applications for 2024 fellows, affiliates; deadline is May 15
The Frist Center for Autism and Innovation has announced its 2024 call for membership, which allows Vanderbilt faculty and staff to apply to become affiliates or fellows of the Center. The work of current fellows and affiliates has resulted in multi-million-dollar grants and was highlighted nationally on CBS’s 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper. Read More
