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Asa Radix, an internationally recognized medical expert and researcher on the health needs of transgender and LGBTQ people, will give the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean’s Diversity Lecture on Monday, May 7. Read More

The Vanderbilt rocket team collected a key award at the NASA Student Launch Challenge and followed up with a successful flight of their rocket April 8 at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama. Read More

Shaul Magid, professor of Jewish studies and religious studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, will discuss "Can We Speak of a Divine Purpose to the Holocaust? Hasidic and Religious Zionist Perspectives" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room. Read More

Shaul Magid, professor of Jewish studies and religious studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, will discuss "Is Broken Faith Still Faith? Reflections on the Final Sermons of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira of the Warsaw Ghetto" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, at the Schulman Center. Read More

Vanderbilt students and members of the Nashville Metro Transit Authority will discuss how to utilize the free MTA bus system from campus to key places in Nashville. Students will gain valuable insight to navigating a major city while reducing their carbon footprint and saving money. Read More

Start your spring off right by taking the Quarter 2 Start! Physical Activity Challenge. Log activity or sync a device using TRACK in the Health Plus Health Guide between April 1 and June 30 to earn raffle entries or win a choice of great prizes. Read More

Is the mystery of human speech hidden in the song of a finch? Vanderbilt researchers in the Music, Mind and Society TIPs program are analyzing the songs of zebra finches to study the development and nuance of spoken language. Learn more in this fascinating VUBreakThru blog post written by Ph.D. candidate Kate T. Snyder. Read more about TIPs grants and other internal faculty funding programs—including University Courses, Discovery Grants and Research Scholar Grants—at the VU BreakThru blog. Read More

Please join the George Barrett Social Justice Program in welcoming Kristen Clarke for the 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Lecture “Democracy Under Attack: Race, Rights and Resistance” at noon Thursday, April 5, at Vanderbilt Law School's Flynn Auditorium. Read More

The Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization's Alan Bentley will discuss emerging initiatives at Vanderbilt to engage industry more effectively, and a team from Deerfield Management will explain its collaborative approach to working with premier academic institutions to catalyze early stage therapeutic development. Read More

Vanderbilt University has awarded its 2018 Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship to Peabody College senior Danielle Kitchen and School of Engineering senior Jerom Theunissen. The fellowship aims to develop leaders through world travel and experiential learning. Read More

The Horvitz YouthAbility program, a Cleveland organization that serves disabled and at-risk youth, has made a donation to the Perry E. Wallace Basketball Scholarship after its members read Wallace's biography and visited Nashville to walk in his footsteps. Read More

Engineering students in the Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Laboratory will demonstrate their solution to a common rocket dilemma at the 2018 NASA Student Launch Competition on April 7. Read More

A video created to recruit families for a research study run by Terrah Akard, associate professor of nursing and pediatrics, has advanced to the national American Advertising Awards competition. Read More

Students enrolled in the "Race, Place and Power" University Course recently visited the Hermitage, home of native son Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. They contrasted what they had learned in class with the picture of Jackson portrayed at the museum. Read more about University Courses and other internal faculty funding programs—including TIPs grants, Discovery Grants and Research Scholar Grants—at the VU BreakThru blog. Read More

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente discusses the "VU-ETOB" budget model, which exemplifies the shared governance approach that the university uses for decision-making. Read More

Vanderbilt will celebrate National Walking Day on Wednesday, April 4, from noon to 12:45 p.m. Join Health Plus and Vanderbilt leaders for a 20-minute walk around campus. Read More

The seventh annual Susan Gray School Golf Tournament will be held Thursday, April 19, at Vanderbilt Legends Golf Course in Franklin, Tennessee. All proceeds raised will benefit the Susan Gray School, the first nationally recognized early intervention program to include typically developing children in education settings alongside children with disabilities. Read More

A Good Friday worship service will be held from 12:10 to 12:40 p.m. March 30 in Benton Chapel. All are welcome to attend. Read More

Amr Elnashai, vice chancellor and vice president for research and technology transfer at the University of Houston, will discuss "Coupled Fire and Earthquake Loading Effects on Buildings" Thursday, March 29. The Frank Parker Lecture in Civil and Environmental Engineering will take place in Jacobs Believed In Me Auditorium at Featheringill Hall. Read More

The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare has issued a Request For Information inviting researchers and other individuals to comment on proposed approaches to reducing regulatory burden with respect to the use of laboratory animals. Read More