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Vanderbilt Professor of English Sam Girgus traces the career of Clint Eastwood in a new book that lauds the director's more recent films for showing a keen insight into Americans' search for meaning and purpose. Read More

Vanderbilt's Paul Yoder and Zachary Warren and Wendy Stone of the University of Washington’s Autism Center have received at five-year, $2.1 million NIH grant to study communication interventions for younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder. Read More

Vanderbilt University Police Department reached more than 45,000 students, faculty and staff at Vanderbilt in less than 20 minutes during its test of the university’s emergency mass notification system, AlertVU, last Wednesday, March 12. Read More

Sarah Jennings, a third-year master's student at Vanderbilt Divinity School, won the Vanderbilt Star songwriting contest March 14. Watch Jennings perform her winning song "Addicted to You." Read More

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean visited the Vanderbilt campus March 12 for Spread the Word to End the Word, an annual event presented by the award-winning Vanderbilt chapter of Best Buddies. Read More

The website management system Sitemason is being retired March 31, 2014. If you are currently using Sitemason, VUIT would like to know which websites, tools and forms you are using to assist with the planning for that content moving forward. Read More

Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2014. Watch Dean Mark Wait discuss Blair School history, what makes the ideal Blair student, the school's amazing alumni and the future of this unique institution. Read More

Vanderbilt's Heard Library presents "Seigenthaler x 2: The Changing Face of the News" March 24 featuring John Seigenthaler and his son, John Seigenthaler Jr. Read More

The National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit association of nearly 400 large U.S. employers, has selected Vanderbilt University as a winner of an Innovation in Reducing Health Care Disparities Award. Read More

Vanderbilt has adopted a new statement of its honor code designed to continue the tradition of preserving and promoting academic integrity. Read More

Vanderbilt’s schools of business, education, law and medical research were all selected in the top 25 in their categories of the best graduate schools as ranked by "U.S. News & World Report." Read More

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean will visit Vanderbilt University’s campus Wednesday to pledge his support to putting an end to the “R Word,” which has negative and hurtful connotations to people with disabilities. Read More

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InvisionHeart, LLC, a startup based on a wireless ECG system developed at Vanderbilt, has been selected as one of 10 startups nationwide to participate in Google's inaugural Demo Day. Read More

Eminent theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson will give a free public lecture, "Four Revolutions and More to Come," on Thursday, March 27, at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Department of Sociology celebrated its 80th anniversary Feb. 17 and 18 with visits from a civil rights lawyer and historian, and two prominent sociologists. Read More

A test of the university’s emergency mass notification system, AlertVU, is planned for Wednesday, March 12. AlertVU is used for emergencies posing an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community. Read More

A diverse group of artists, students and others will create a forest that is part visual art and part live theater performance at Vanderbilt’s Neely Auditorium March 28 and 29. Read More

Concur, the online expense system, opens Tuesday for most types of employee reimbursements. The expense system will be disabled on Monday, but travel arrangements may still be made. Read More

The Vanderbilt research team of Doug and Lynn Fuchs has received the American Educational Research Association's premier acknowledgement of outstanding achievement and success in education research. Read More