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Check out our favorite Father’s Day stories and photos from Vanderbilt’s social media channels. Share yours with us on our Facebook page, or on Twitter and Instagram by tagging them #vandygram. Read More

Vanderbilt University was honored with six awards from the Tennessee College Public Relations Association at its spring meeting June 12-13. VUCast, Vanderbilt’s video newscast, received the gold (first place) award for “Autism communication breakthrough” in the category of Radio/TV Show or Newscast. MyVU was honored… Read More

The office of International Student & Scholar Services seeks individuals to help new International students adjust to campus life and American culture. Read More

Celebrate National Dump the Pump Day on Thursday, June 19, by taking public transportation, such as an MTA bus or the Music City Star commuter train. Read More

Kate Pride Brown, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, has been awarded a grant for research from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate for the W.M. Keck Foundation Medical Research Program and one candidate for the Science and Engineering Program for 2014. These awards provide between $500,000 and $2 million over three years for investigators focusing on important and emerging areas of research. The W.M. Keck… Read More

Vanderbilt may nominate two candidates for the 2015 Searle Scholars Program, which supports the independent research of outstanding individuals who have recently begun their first appointments as tenure-track assistant professors. Grants are $300,000 for a three-year period. Applicants are expected to be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry,… Read More

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 fall 2014 as presenters of diverse and international topics. One mission of ISSS is to facilitate… Read More

From Tomb to Temple: Unearthing Ancient China Through the Vanderbilt University Art Collection will be on display at the Fine Arts Gallery June 19-Oct. 12. Read More

The final day of the Major League Baseball Draft saw two more Commodores be selected with Jared Miller going to Arizona in the 11th round and Brian Miller going to Tampa Bay in the 15th round. Read More

"Vanderbilt Magazine" has received a Silver Award in the 2014 Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) Circle of Excellence competition. Read More

Vanderbilt Health and Williamson Medical Center opened a new Walk-In Clinic in Cool Springs on Wednesday, June 4. The new clinic joins two other Vanderbilt Health and Williamson Medical Center Walk-In Clinics already open in Franklin and Spring Hill. Read More

Junior Tyler Beede was selected 14th overall by San Francisco in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft to become the 12th Commodore in history to be a first-round pick in the June draft. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Credit Union is offering discounts on tickets to popular area amusements parks. The available parks and rates are: Nashville Shores Water Park: $22 Nashville Shores Treetop Park: $29 Holiday World: Adult $39, child $34 Beech Bend: $27 Kentucky Kingdom: $35… Read More

The "Protection of Minors 101" module is now available for open enrollment in the Learning Exchange and includes policy, incident reporting, code of conduct, red flag behavior and prevention techniques for the safety and protection of minors. Read More

Faculty may submit nominations for the Thomas Jefferson Award, given to a Vanderbilt faculty member for distinguished service through extraordinary contributions in the councils and governance of the university, now through July 25. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Department of Art proudly presents two summer exhibitions by art faculty from area colleges. A group show by Middle Tennessee State University professors Barry Buxkamper, John Donovan, Sisavanh Houghton and Michael Baggarly, as well as a solo show by Kimberly Winkle of Tennessee Technical University, will be on… Read More

Minutes from the University Staff Advisory Council’s May 13 meeting are now available online on the USAC website. Owens (Vanderbilt University) David Owens, professor for the practice of management and innovation at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, was the guest… Read More

A special summer session of Weight Watchers at Work will begin Wednesday, June 11, at 11 a.m. in the Student Life Center. If you have always wanted to try Weight Watchers, this is the perfect time since the session will be 12 weeks long for the price of a… Read More

Education researcher Mimi Engel shares her insights in an opinion piece in "Education Week." Read More