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Join HR Employee Learning and Engagement for Conversation Circles, a series for managers and leaders, this semester. January Conversation Circles will focus on performance management and review. Read More

The ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to the United States, Geraldine Byrne Nason, will discuss international relations on Thursday, Jan. 19, at Vanderbilt. The conversation will be from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Vanderbilt Central Library fourth-floor Community Room. The event is open to the public. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Department of Sociology will present a lecture by Dorceta Taylor, senior associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion and professor of environmental justice at Yale University, on Thursday, Jan. 26, from noon to 1 p.m. in Alumni Hall, Room 202. Taylor’s talk will explore the intersectionality of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideologies and work. Read More

The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy will host CBS Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, to discuss their book, The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of the Big Lie, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 11 a.m. at the Scarritt Bennett Center. Read More

The Vanderbilt Blair School of Music has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $20,000. Led by professor Douglas Shadle, the grant will fund “Florence Price: A Celebration,” a series of performances honoring classical composer Florence Price.  Read More

Major Jackson, professor of English, director of creative writing and holder of the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities, has been named the new host of the celebrated poetry podcast The Slowdown, produced by American Public Media in partnership with the Poetry Foundation. Read More

Grammy-nominated folk singer and songwriter Mary Gauthier will offer writing workshops for students, staff, faculty and postdocs Jan. 24–25, followed by a reading and performance for the Vanderbilt community on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 5 p.m. at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Read More

Register now for spring Kindermusik at Blair Academy, recognized by Kindermusik International as one of the top programs worldwide. Classes are designed for families with one or more children ages 6 months to 5 years.  Read More

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Charlie “Tuna” Moore, a highly decorated pilot who led the day-to-day operations of U.S. Cyber Command, has joined Vanderbilt University’s initiative on the future of conflict. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College Professor Mary Louise Hemmeter has received an $11.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to expand the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms in diverse districts across the country. Read More

A company co-founded by Vanderbilt mechanical engineering professor Robert J. Webster III has received a breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that could open the door for new diagnostic and therapeutic applications of flexible endoscopy. Read More

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier welcomes Vanderbilt students, faculty, staff and postdocs back to what promises to be an especially rich and fruitful spring semester in a message to the university community. Read More

Nicole Joseph, associate professor of mathematics education, has been named associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

The Data Science Institute is working with Elliott McCarter, senior lecturer in Asian studies, on a new project this semester to bridge language acquisition gap through deep learning. DSI is looking for students to join the project and help harness the latest developments in data-driven research to create a better way to learn new languages. Read More

The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center’s Owls kindergarten program is enrolling students for the 2023–24 school year. This unique kindergarten on the Vanderbilt campus follows a nature-based educational philosophy and offers an emergent curriculum with a learning focus on 21st-century skills. Read More

Nightly closures of one lane of Broadway between Lyle Avenue and Division Street began on Jan. 8 for crews to perform utility work at Vanderbilt’s graduate and professional student housing village. Read More

Between academics, training and competition, collegiate student-athletes must juggle a lot. Mabel Cummins, captain of the Vanderbilt bowling team, added to her multitasking over the past year by also serving as president of the university’s Undergraduate Honor Council. Read More

Vanderbilt University staff stepped up to work over the winter break after a severe cold front swept through the Nashville area and caused frozen pipes and water damage in a handful of campus buildings. Read More

The Vanderbilt Blair School of Music presents “Zohn Collective: Songtree,” an evening of contemporary art music, on Saturday, Jan. 14. The performance is the culmination of a weeklong on-campus residency for the group, sponsored by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies. Read More

A group of Vanderbilt students with diverse majors joined their creative forces for an immersive writing challenge: Take sophisticated science, technology, engineering and math topics and make them compelling for fourth graders. How did they do it? Through storytelling. Read More