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Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver honored faculty from across the university at an endowed chair investiture ceremony on campus Feb. 24, conferring the university’s highest scholastic rank on those who had received the designation during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Read More

The Tennessee Department of Human Services has awarded a $600,000 grant to the Vanderbilt Child and Family Center that will provide all full-time staff at the Acorn School a one-time $2,000 retention bonus. Read More

The Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research-practice partnership between the Tennessee Department of Education and Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, has named Laura Booker as its new executive director. Booker, a senior lecturer in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations, will succeed Erin O’Hara, who served as TERA’s founding executive director for the past five years.  Read More

Nominations are open through Thursday, March 31, for the 2022 Spring Staff Awards, which recognize the many contributions of university staff to Vanderbilt’s core goals and mission. The winners will be announced at the second annual Spring Staff Assembly on May 23.  Read More

Sports icon and champion for equality Billie Jean King joined Candice Lee, vice chancellor for athletics and university affairs and athletic director, for “Game, Set, Match: A New Era of Equality in Sports” on March 1. The conversation, part of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series, was presented in partnership with the Nashville Public Library Foundation’s Votes for Women. Read More

The Division of Government and Community Relations has convened the Community Engagement Collective to serve as a campus-wide forum to establish shared knowledge, structures, processes and guidelines to inform Vanderbilt’s work in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee communities. Read More

The Center for Teaching is now accepting applications for the 2022–23 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program, designed to provide a set of professional development opportunities for junior faculty to learn about successful teaching practices. Read More

The second annual spring Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair is scheduled for Thursday, April 14. Students who have completed research while undergraduates at Vanderbilt are encouraged to apply. Read More

Benjamin Thomas Jordan Jr., associate professor of the practice of engineering management, died Feb. 21 in Nashville following a brief illness. He was 79. Jordan was an active faculty member in the Division of General Engineering and had been teaching three engineering management courses this semester. Read More

Kimberly Welch, associate professor of history and assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt University, has been awarded a 2022 Dan David Prize. The internationally renowned annual award, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, gives prizes of $300,000 each to nine early- to mid-career history scholars whose outstanding contributions expand knowledge of the past, enrich society in the present and promise to improve the future of the world.   Read More

Many students are using online options to catch up during COVID-19, but questions remain about how well these online credit recovery approaches are working. Carolyn Heinrich, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education, offers her perspective on why credit recovery is taking a new focus during the pandemic.  Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Communications and Marketing team was honored with three Emmy Awards from the Midsouth Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences during the organization’s livestreamed ceremony on Feb. 26. Read More

Alyssa Aloyo, a program manager for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, works on strategic planning, program development and cultivating relationships with others across the university who are committed to equity, inclusion and belonging at Vanderbilt. Read More

Applications are open for two internal funding programs, the Educational Advancement Fund and the Course Improvement Grant, designed to support excellence in the classroom through continued pedagogical advancement and long-term educational transformation. The deadline to submit for the upcoming second round has been extended to Friday, May 20. Read More

Audrey K. Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering, has received a 2022 Lewis Latimer Fellowship. The exclusive program offers only six fellowships per class, and fellows are selected through a rigorous nomination process. Read More

Vanderbilt stands in support of all members of the university community impacted by events in Ukraine, especially those with connections to the region, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier writes in a statement, which also details university resources. Read More

Dan Cornfield, professor of sociology, political science and American studies, offers perspective on what’s driving the Great Resignation and what’s next for labor trends in this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

As Russia unleashed an assault against Ukraine on Thursday, a panel of Vanderbilt experts brought context to the developments during a virtual event on the escalating conflict and its potential global implications. Read More

Due to ongoing Russian military action, travel to Ukraine by Vanderbilt University faculty, staff or students on university-sponsored or affiliated travel is suspended until further notice, effective immediately. Read More

Rites of Spring is scheduled for Friday, April 22, and Saturday, April 23, on Alumni Lawn. Tickets for Vanderbilt students, staff and faculty are on sale now. Read More