Vanderbilt University

W-2 forms to be mailed next week; also available on C2HR

W-2 forms are scheduled to be mailed next week to current employees and former employees who earned money from Vanderbilt during the 2015 calendar year. Read More

Get $1 tickets, hot dogs at women’s basketball game Jan. 25

The Commodores will host their annual “Jam the Gym” event on Monday, when the women’s basketball team takes on Alabama beginning at 6 p.m. in Memorial Gym. Fans can purchase $1 tickets to the game and $1 hot dogs during the game. Read More

Take note: Information about inclement weather and reporting to work

Message to all university faculty and staff from Barbara Carroll, chief human resources officer Barbara Carroll (Vanderbilt) Colleagues, Nashville is likely to see its first… Read More

TIP SHEET: Political expert John Geer can comment on presidential races

Vanderbilt University political scientist John Geer, the nation’s leading expert on negative political advertising, is available to comment on the U.S. Democratic and Republican presidential primary elections. Geer co-chairs Vanderbilt’s Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Read More

Blair precollege students shine in local and national events

Precollege music students Kaili Wang and Nolan Harvel, both Myra Jackson Blair Senior Honor Scholars at Blair School of Music, are gaining performance experience at notable venues both locally and nationally. Read More

Follow these tips for maintaining weight loss

Many people manage to lose weight, but few of them keep it off. Learn how the successful few avoid regaining weight in this article from MySouthernHealth.com. Read More

Blair’s Conversations Series welcomes five-time Grammy nominee and guitar virtuoso Robben Ford

The Blair School of Music’s Conversations Series will welcome five-time Grammy nominee and guitar virtuoso Robben Ford Feb. 2 for an intimate on-stage conversation, a brief performance, and Q&A session with the audience. Read More

Woodman receives Troland Research Award

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Geoffrey Woodman, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, will receive a 2016 Troland Research Award. Read More

Vanderbilt celebrates MLK Day

The Vanderbilt community celebrated the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of events Jan. 15-18, including lectures, service activities and participation in the Nashville Freedom March. See coverage on the Get Social website. Read More

Hall Lecture to address how engineering can tackle global health care inequities

New approaches to engineering design are needed to solve inequities in global health care, according to a widely acclaimed bioengineer who tackles neonatal health and cancer mortality in low-resource settings in the United States and Africa. Rebecca Richards-Kortum will deliver the Hall Engineering Lecture on Monday, Jan. 25. Read More

Teacher’s race affects gifted program selections

With equal test scores, black students are about half as likely as their white peers to be assigned to gifted programs in math and reading, according to a new Vanderbilt University study. Read More

Goldberg Lecture to discuss Greek architectural renewal under Augustus

An archaeologist at the University of California, Irvine, will discuss Greek architectural renewal by the Roman emperor Augustus when she delivers a Goldberg Lecture Jan. 21 at Cohen Hall. Read More

Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion launches newsletter

Read the inaugural issue of "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Matter," the official newsletter from the office of Vice Chancellor George C. Hill. Read More

Vanderbilt ranks fifth in campus diversity study

Vanderbilt posted its highest percentage ever for diversifying the entering freshman class in the just-released annual survey of the "Journal of Blacks in Higher Education." Read More

Blair offers ‘Cuddle and Bounce’ for newborns, infants and crawlers

The Blair School of Music’s “Cuddle and Bounce” class is designed for new parents and their babies. Read More

Nominations due Feb. 8 for Johnson Award recognizing faculty leadership in equity, diversity and inclusion

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has announced the establishment of the Joseph A. Johnson, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Professor Award, to be given annually beginning at the 2016 Spring Faculty Assembly. The award will recognize a faculty member whose contributions have enhanced equity, diversity and inclusion in the university’s academic endeavors. Read More