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Vanderbilt Mail Services is working to ensure a smooth transition for both first-year and returning students ahead of move-in for the 2022-23 academic year. In an effort to streamline the package shipping and distribution process, a number of enhancements have been planned to assist students and parents with move-in. Read More

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development Kathryn Humphreys will investigate parent–child proximity and emerging psychopathology with a new five-year research grant in excess of $3.7 million from the National Institute of Mental Health Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists program.  Read More

Research Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Janey Camp has been named director of the Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation and Operational Resiliency, where interdisciplinary groups work on a variety of transportation and infrastructure resilience projects using groundbreaking applications and risk management practices. Read More

Vanderbilt Blair School of Music and the Nashville Symphony have announced an expansion of their partnership in the Curb Youth Symphony. Beginning with the 2022–23 school year, Nashville Symphony Associate Conductor Nathan Aspinall will serve as conductor and artistic director of the ensemble.  Read More

Vanderbilt computer science professor Jonathan Sprinkle is among seven principal investigators using a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to explore a new way to engineer cyber-physical systems. Examples of CPSs include smart power grids, implantable medical devices and transportation technology such as self-driving cars, which are the focus of the five-year, multi-institutional project. Read More

Jennifer Escalas, Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor and professor of marketing, has been named associate dean of academic programs at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. In her new role, Escalas will focus on curriculum and course delivery across Owen’s degree programs. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is creating the Academy for Diverse Emerging Nurse Leaders, a leadership development program for nurses new to health care leadership and academic positions who are from groups historically underrepresented in nursing. Read More

The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, a first-of-its-kind longitudinal study led by Vanderbilt researchers Camilla P. Benbow and David Lubinski, continues to shape the way we understand giftedness, success and happiness. Read More

Hear from members of Vanderbilt's university-wide task force about the legal and medical implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and how the task force is working to address the decision’s impact on the Vanderbilt community. The event is at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10. Read More

Vanderbilt University is embarking on the next phase of its residential colleges program with the reenvisioning of Highland Quadrangle along 25th Avenue South. The initiative, which includes construction of three new residential colleges for upper-division students, will build upon the successful living-learning environments already in place. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has announced plans for construction of the largest expansion to date for Vanderbilt University Hospital. A new inpatient tower will be built atop an existing parking structure located between 21st Avenue South and Medical Center Drive. Vivien Thomas Way will provide access to the new tower’s entrance. Read More

Early voting for the Aug. 4 primary election in Tennessee ends this Saturday, July 30. Candidates for governor, U.S. House of Representatives and the Tennessee House and Senate, among others, are on the ballot. Sign up for 2022 election reminders, and register to vote in the November general election. Read More

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development Kathryn Humphreys has been recognized with the 2023 Boyd McCandless Award by the American Psychological Association’s Division 7. The award recognizes a young scientist who has made distinguished contributions to developmental psychology. Read More

John R. Ingram, a longtime university benefactor whose generosity continues to shape the historic Vandy United campaign, will be honored as the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame’s Tennessean of the Year on July 23. The event also serves as the induction ceremony for a Hall of Fame class that includes the late David Williams II, former vice chancellor for athletics and university affairs and athletic director, and former Vanderbilt golf and football standout Toby Wilt. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School ranked seventh of 66 law schools in a listing of The Top 65 Law Schools for Black Students by Lawyers of Color, a nonprofit that publishes annual rankings of law students and legal employers. Read More

A collaborative team of Vanderbilt researchers has characterized the antigen-specific immune response to the Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 RNA vaccine. The group used multiple single-cell technologies, unbiased machine learning and traditional immunological approaches to track cellular and antibody responses in samples collected over time from a cohort of healthy participants. Read More

Join Kendra Oliver, assistant professor of pharmacology and director and founder of ArtLab, for the next Lab-to-Table Conversation on Wednesday, July 27. The panelists will explore how a group of self-identified scientist-artists are embracing this particular duality.  Read More

Six Vanderbilt student-athletes were selected across the three days of the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft. The Commodores boasted multiple selections on each day of the draft, including two first-round selections: Kumar Rocker and Spencer Jones. Read More

Margaret Axelrod, Rachel Brown and Simone Herzberg, aspiring physician-scientists in Vanderbilt’s Medical Scientist Training Program, are among this year’s recipients of highly competitive P.E.O. Scholar Awards. Recipients of the $20,000 awards are women from the U.S. and Canada pursuing doctoral-level degrees who have demonstrated their ability to make significant contributions in their chosen fields. Read More

Join HR Employee Learning and Engagement for “Conversation Circles,” a series for managers and leaders, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, from 1 to 2 p.m. This session will focus on difficult conversations. Read More