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Work/Life Connections–EAP recommends annual depression checkup

Oct. 5 is National Depression Screening Day, which serves as a reminder that clinical depression is a common medical illness affecting more than 20 million American adults each year. Like screenings for other illnesses, depression screenings should be a routine part of health care. Read More

Vanderbilt statement regarding potential use of Major League Soccer stadium for university events

Vanderbilt University today issued the following statement regarding efforts to bring a Major League Soccer team to Nashville and the potential use of a new stadium for university events. Read More

Register for group or private swim lessons at the VRWC

Develop new skills or prepare for the next meet with the Vanderbilt Swim School. Online registration for group and private swim lessons at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center is available now. Read More

Vanderbilt celebrates LGBTQI+ History Month in October

Emmy-nominated actor Tituss Burgess, "I Am Not Your Negro" filmmaker Raoul Peck, and "RuPaul’s Drag Race" star Shea Couleé highlight the October schedule for LGBTQI+ History Month at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Spencer to give Emerging Scholars Lecture Oct. 5

Sade Spencer of the Department of Neurosciences at the Medical University of South Carolina will be the guest presenter of the Discovery Science Emerging Scholars Lecture Oct. 5. Read More

VU Theatre opens new season with adventure tale staged as radio drama

Vanderbilt University Theatre will perform "Kid Simple: A Radio Drama in the Flesh," an imaginative play that uses sound effects to help tell the story, for two weekends starting Sept. 29. Read More

Fired for refusal to defend travel ban, Yates candid on Russia investigation, DACA, presidential pardon

Titled “The Presidency and the Rule of Law,” the conversation among Sally Yates, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Jon Meacham kicked off the Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture Series for 2017-18. Read More

Workshop will chart the future of television news preservation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded funding to Vanderbilt for a workshop and planning effort to examine and address the challenges of preserving TV news in the 21st century. Read More

Eat and learn about the history of violence at lunchbox talk

A historian of early modern Europe will compare violence in the 16th and 17th centuries with conditions today during a lunchtime talk Wednesday, Oct. 4. Read More

Large pay disparities can be regarded as fair, with proper motivational orientation

When employees are guided by the pursuit of gains and advancement, they can view pay disparities as fair, according to new research by Tae-Youn Park of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

All benefits-eligible employees must complete Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment is Oct. 17–31. All benefits-eligible employees must complete Open Enrollment, even if you don't plan to make changes to current elections or you wish to waive coverage. Read More

Academic Pathways Postdoctoral Fellows application opens Oct. 1

The Academic Pathways Postdoctoral Fellowship program is a research/mentorship program administered by the Graduate School designed to bridge fellows between academic training and entry-level faculty positions. Read More

Center for Effective Lawmaking announces highest-scoring members of Congress

The most effective legislators in the U.S. House of Representative and Senate were identified by the new Center for Effective Lawmaking in Washington, D.C. Read More

Tolerance, participation in local government up in the Americas

New data gathered by the Latin American Political Opinion Project (LAPOP) include some upticks but also discouraging news about the state of democracy in the Americas. Read More

Greater Nashville Heart Walk set for Saturday, Oct. 14

The 2017 Greater Nashville Heart Walk hits the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) campus on Saturday, Oct. 14. Read More

Florida Congressman Ted Deutch to speak at Vanderbilt Law School Oct. 6

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida will participate in a public dialogue with a Vanderbilt Law School professor during a visit on Friday, Oct. 6. Read More

Vote for Vanderbilt’s entry to the PARK(ing) Day 2017 People’s Choice Award

Vote now on the Nashville Civic Design Center Facebook page for Vanderbilt's entry to the PARK(ing) Day 2017 People's Choice Award. Voting ends on Wednesday. Read More

More to the Story: Former Impact chairmen add to article about 1967 Symposium

As the chairmen of the first five Impact sym­posia, we are delighted when articles about this important and unique Vanderbilt institution are published, most recently the “Speak Up” article written by Andrew Maraniss in the Spring 2017 issue. Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School racial justice initiative to launch

Vanderbilt Divinity School invites the community to help launch its new Luce Foundation-funded Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Ruby. Read More

Final report on faculty job satisfaction survey released by working group

A faculty working group has released a comprehensive report that shares findings from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) faculty satisfaction survey conducted last year. Read More