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Open Enrollment offers chance to make crucial benefit decisions

Open Enrollment is the annual opportunity for Vanderbilt employees to update or choose the benefit options that best meet your and your family’s needs. Mark your calendars for Oct. 14-30 so you’re ready to enroll for 2016 Open Enrollment. Read More

Barbara L. Carroll named Vanderbilt University chief HR officer

Barbara L. Carroll, a nationally recognized leader in higher education human resources, has been named to the newly defined role of Vanderbilt University associate vice chancellor and chief human resources officer. Read More

‘Boot Camp’ gives chance to hone critical care skills

More than 250 critical care nurse practitioners and physician assistants from 41 states gathered at Vanderbilt recently for the fourth annual ACNP/PA Critical Care Boot Camp. Read More

Annual Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University to focus on role of gender in genocide

Now in its 38th year, Vanderbilt's 2015 Holocaust Lecture Series will focus on the gender dynamics among perpetrators, victims, bystanders and witnesses. Read More

Interpreting ambiguous visual information is surprisingly low level brain function

When faced with ambiguous visual information, it is the visual processing areas of the brain that choose between the competing impressions, not the higher levels of the brain as previously thought. Read More

VU Athletics to hold flood-relief drive for South Carolina

Vanderbilt Athletics is providing support to the flood relief efforts in Columbia, South Carolina, by holding a drive on Thursday, Oct. 8, to collect and transport water and new generators to those in need. Read More

Take stock for National Depression Screening Day

National Depression Screening Day is Oct. 8. Held during Mental Illness Awareness Week each October, it serves as a reminder that clinical depression is a common medical illness affecting more than 20 million American adults each year. Read More

Register now for Oct. 14 Safe Zone training

The Safe Zone program aims to create a visible network of support for LGBTQI individuals and their allies by providing an avenue through which any member of the Vanderbilt community can show their support. Read More

Get 20 percent off tickets to Nashville Ballet’s ‘Dracula’

Vanderbilt students, staff, faculty, friends and family members can receive a 20 percent discount on tickets to Nashville Ballet’s production of "Dracula" Oct. 22-24. Read More

2015 Southern Festival of Books features Vanderbilt faculty

The Vanderbilt community will be well-represented at the 2015 Southern Festival of Books, with several faculty and alumni discussing their work. Read More

Enroll in dependent day care FSA during Open Enrollment

Flexible spending accounts are funded with your pretax dollars and can be used to pay for out-of-pocket health-related or dependent day care expenses. Read More

Guatemala leads Americas in condoning violence against unfaithful wives

A majority of Guatemalans believe it is understandable, and sometimes even acceptable, for women who cheat on their husbands to be subjected to violence in return, the results of a new survey indicate. Read More

Retirement plan update for employees leaving Vanderbilt

Effective Oct. 15, Vanderbilt will require most former employees with balances less than $1,000 in the Vanderbilt University 403(b) Retirement Plan to roll their savings over to another plan or account, or take the balance as a distribution. Read More

Lunch and Learn Oct. 21: ‘The basics of Medicare’

The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center will host a lunch and learn Oct. 21 from noon to 1 p.m. in Light Hall, Room 433, on the basics of Medicare. Read More

October marks Campus Sustainability, Energy Awareness months

The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office will celebrate two month-long events in October: Campus Sustainability Month and Energy Awareness Month. Read More

SECURITY NOTICE: Sexual assault on campus

A female student reported to a Campus Security Authority that on Oct. 3 she was sexually assaulted by a male student acquaintance. Read More

New faculty: Ben Munyan examines the growing field of ‘shadow banking’

Once a math and science prodigy, Ben Munyan can now be found in his Owen Graduate School of Management office writing computer code mapping U.S. Treasury data to bank and investor activity. Read More

New faculty: Anna Marie Bohmann uses math to understand multidimensional spaces

When Anna Marie Bohmann was growing up in Minneapolis, she enjoyed school in general—and math in particular—but had no idea that making a career in mathematics was even possible. Read More

$5M study looks at TN teacher evaluation data and collaboration

Understanding how state school systems can best use teacher evaluation data to drive instructional improvement is the focus of a new Vanderbilt study. Read More

Osher Lifelong Learning: Legal and Policy Issues in Modern Warfare 10.7.15

Watch video of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s class “Legal and Policy Issues in Modern Warfare” October 7th, 2015 with Michael Newton. Read More