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Nashville Chalk Fest is a free, two-day street painting festival with entertainment, food and family fun featuring sidewalk chalk art by professional artists, hobbyists and art enthusiasts from across the country. Read More

Continue to develop yourself and your leadership abilities with our three- day Executive Leadership program, taught by leadership expert Dick Daft. Read More

The SENSE Lab invites children 10-13 years of age with ASD and children with typical development to take part in a NIMH-funded study that examines stress and social functioning across pubertal development. Read More

To accommodate necessary storm sewer pipe replacement, parking and traffic will be altered or closed along 25th Ave. starting Sept. 24. Read More

Eric Johnson, Ralph Owen Dean and Bruce D. Henderson Professor of Strategy, announced the appointment of Cherrie Wilkerson as assistant dean for young professional programs at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Become a better persuader and influencer with our upcoming program Persuasive and Influential Speaking running Nov. 1-2. Vanderbilt employees receive a 20 percent discount with the code COMP20. Read More

In recognition of National Preparedness Month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will perform a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert on Oct. 3. Read More

Nominations are now being sought by the School of Medicine for the annual Levi Watkins Jr. Faculty Award and Levi Watkins Jr. Student Awards. The school also announces details of the 17th Annual Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. Lecture by Gary H. Gibbons, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC combined) can nominate up to two assistant professors for the 2018 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards, sponsored by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). The awards provide seed money for research intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty. Read More

To protect Vanderbilt’s email systems, all incoming emails are processed through Microsoft’s Exchange Online Protection (EOP) engine. This service includes a quarantine that captures emails that Microsoft determines to be spam and holds the suspected spam for 15 days before purging. Read More

Strategies for Value-Based Health Care is a unique, one-and-a-half-day program and partnership between Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center that emphasizes both patient and business outcomes in health care. Read More

The Vanderbilt Master of Public Health Program will participate in the This Is Public Health Virtual Fair, a free online recruitment event, on Thursday, Sept. 20. Read More

VU can submit one proposal per department for the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation program in the humanities. The foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past. Read More

The goal of the Creating Opportunity & Independence (CO&I) program is to enhance the quality of life for individuals and their families living with spinal cord injury. CO&I grants support innovative programs or projects that improve participation and independence for individuals living with SCI and address critical areas of need in rehabilitation, transitional stages, and in the community. Read More

Gary H. Gibbons, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, will present "Shaping the Science and Health of the Future" at noon Tuesday, Oct. 9, in Light Hall, Room 208. Gibbons' talk is the 17th annual Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. Lecture sponsored by the School of Medicine's Office for Diversity Affairs. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty and staff can get a discount on tickets to the 17th annual Commodore Quake, featuring T-Pain and Lil Baby. Read More

VU can submit one application per calendar year to the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation (CFH) Support for Programs in Developing World funding opportunity. The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Read More

VUPS reports two incidents of indecent exposure on Sept. 10 and 11. Read More

Looking to improve your financial management skills? We are here to help with our upcoming Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers program Oct. 8-10. Read More

Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami, will bring his "Visual Trumpery" national tour to Vanderbilt Sept. 20-21. Read More