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Nashville's increasingly popular country music scene is the backdrop for VU Theatre's April 7-10 production of "The Misanthrope," a comedy of manners written by the renowned French playwright Molière. Read More

On April 1, news of "Vanderbilt's biggest discovery yet" was shared on social media; this image from the Alumni Lawn dig site is one our favorite #vandygram photos of the week. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos discussed the implementation of the university’s Academic Strategic Plan, the university and Medical Center transition to two separate legal and financial entities, groundbreaking research, and the university's examination of what community looks like at Vanderbilt in his Spring Faculty Assembly address. Read More

Vanderbilt University will take the next step in extending students’ living experience beyond the classroom and enhancing student engagement and community on campus when it begins construction in mid-May on the new Vanderbilt Barnard residential college. Read More

The first winner of a Vanderbilt award to recognize faculty who contribute to diversity went to Linda Sealy of the School of Medicine. Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning invites applications for graduate student fellowships for the 2016-17 academic year. Graduate fellows will pursue joint and individual projects relating to a wide variety of digital learning, including advancing scholarship in digital learning and creating and evaluating digital learning content. Read More

Michael G. Perez, a recognized university facilities leader with more than 30 years’ experience, will join Vanderbilt University June 1 as associate vice chancellor and chief facilities officer. Read More

Read about the latest faculty and staff awards, appointments and achievements. Read More

Read the March issue of "The Open Dore," Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente's newsletter, now available online. Read More

Power and Internet service were interrupted on parts of the Vanderbilt University campus for about two hours Wednesday afternoon after a small electrical fire at the Hill Center. Both the Hill Center and the adjoining Commons Center were evacuated, but were re-opened shortly after 6 p.m. Read More

Engineering professor Sankaran Mahadevan has been named as the Vanderbilt recipient of the 2016 SEC Faculty Achievement Award. The award is given annually to a professor at each of the SEC's 14 member schools. Read More

The next Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box talk at the downtown Nashville Public Library will discuss "Pirates Through History." College of Arts and Science Dean Lauren Benton will be the speaker. Read More

The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center is offering youth programs this summer for every age group. Register now to keep your kids active over the summer months. Read More

Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are both riding on the anger of the working class, although their messages and intentions couldn't be more different, says a Vanderbilt historian. Read More

Steven Wernke, associate professor of anthropology, will team up with Akira Saito, an anthropologist with Japan's renowned Museum of Ethnology, to promote scholarly exchange on a significant but little-studied chapter in colonial South American history. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Humphrey Fellows will travel to east Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains for the Festival of Nations. Read More

An astrophysicist and an aerospace engineer who are members of the team developing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018 – will give a free public lecture March 31. Read More

Dr. André Churchwell, senior associate dean for diversity affairs at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, will share his personal insights on the role of art in all of its creative forms and its relationship to applied physics in the solution of humankind’s medical woes when he delivers the next installment of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series April 11. Read More

Read Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos' statement regarding the deaths of Vanderbilt alumni Justin and Stephanie Shults as the result of a March 22 terrorist bombing in Brussels, Belgium. Read More

Vanderbilt University has received a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a new Center for Digital Humanities. The trans-institutional initiative will further Vanderbilt’s commitment to becoming a national hub of innovative digital humanities scholarship. Read More