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International Student and Scholar Services is seeking students, faculty, staff and community members who may be interested in collaborating with ISSS for its upcoming World on Wednesdays (WOW) program during spring 2015 as presenters of diverse and international topics. Read More

The Human Resources Employee Service Center will be closed on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 8 a.m. to noon for a staff in-service. Read More

The lives and work of five nurses on the front lines of the biggest issues facing America—aging, war, prisons and poverty—are explored in a new documentary film that will screen Tuesday, Dec. 2, at the Carmike Bellevue 8. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty and staff are invited to spend their lunchtime watching the women’s basketball team take on Saint Louis University in a regular-season game on Monday, Nov. 24. Read More

In celebration of worldwide Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) Day, the Jean and Alexander Heard Library is offering a pair of events Nov. 19. Read More

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente will serve some of her family’s favorite dishes to students at Lunch Paper in Rand Hall during a special Tortellini Tuesday Nov. 18 from 5 to 7 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate each from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program. This award provides $100,000 per year for up to two years. Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core is pleased to announce a new round of Community Engaged Research Mini-Grants, available for activities that promote ongoing, mutually beneficial, health-oriented research partnerships between community organizations and academic researchers. Read More

"Dawn Sears and Friends," a fundraiser to benefit lung cancer research at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, is scheduled for Nov. 30 at Depot Square in Gallatin, Tennessee. Reba McEntire, The Time Jumpers, Riders in the Sky and Olympic figure skating great Scott Hamilton will be featured. Read More

The north entrance drive for Vanderbilt University Hospital will be closed from Monday, Nov. 17, through Friday, Nov. 21, between 10 p.m.–4:30 a.m. each night. Read More

Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt will offer Vanderbilt employees an extra 10 percent off all merchandise on Friday, Dec. 12, in addition to the regular employee discount of 10 percent. Read More

Nashville will observe International Transgender Day of Remembrance with a ceremony from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 20 at Scarritt Bennett Center, located at 1008 19th Ave. S. Read More

Alex McNeill, executive director of More Light Presbyterians, a national organization devoted to advocacy, education and support for LGBTQ people and issues within the church an beyond, will speak at a lunchtime event on Thursday, Nov. 20, at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

In the Qing Hai province of China, there are a number of issues that complicate efforts to improve the quality of education, especially for nomadic peoples. World on Wednesday will explore the topic at its Nov. 19 meeting. Read More

A Nov. 18 panel will discuss how to create more inclusive communities and spaces for trans graduate and professional students at Vanderbilt. Read More

Students Promoting Environmental Awareness and Responsibility has been named winner of the 2014 football sustainability competition and can boast the title “greenest group on campus.” Read More

On Tuesday, Nov. 11, at approximately 9:50 a.m., a professor returned to her office in the Stevenson Center and saw two men. The men had loaded her computer into a backpack, and when they noticed her, they fled. Read More

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, Nov. 18, from noon to 1 p.m. for the November DigitalVU meeting. This month’s session will focus on web and social analytics. Read More

Last spring, Vanderbilt entered into a partnership to foster collaborations between its faculty and researchers affiliated with universities in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. In the first year of this partnership, two proposals have been selected for funding. Read More

The Vanderbilt Divinity School student group Students Exploring Chaplaincy is partnering with Project Dialogue for a special screening of Chaplains Under Fire at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10 in Sarratt Cinema. The event is free and open to the public. Read More