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The Commons Reading for the 2016-17 academic year will be "Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South" by Vanderbilt alumnus Andrew Maraniss, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente and Vanessa Beasley, dean of The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, announced today. Read More

Classes and all other normal university operations will resume Monday, Jan. 25. Read More

Information on campus conditions and the operational status of various campus services for Saturday, Jan. 23, and Sunday, Jan. 24. Read More

When Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente emailed students early Friday morning to inform them that classes had been cancelled for the day, many of them no doubt took it as a signal to sleep in or to begin their weekends early. But for a team of dedicated staff and administrators, the work of dealing with the winter weather had just begun. Read More

April 21 marks Vanderbilt's inaugural Giving Day, a 24-hour event to celebrate the university and advance its mission to discover, educate and lead. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner scheduled for Jan. 22 has been postponed due to weather and safety concerns. Read More

Classes are canceled Jan. 22. Guidance here for all university staff from Barbara Carroll, chief human resources officer, about the inclement weather and reporting to work. Read More

The Peabody Office of Professional and Graduate Education held a reception in honor of George C. Hill, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, on Jan. 19 in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. Read More

College of Arts and Science faculty and graduate students have been honored with teaching and mentoring excellence awards. Read More

The "Vanderbilt Historical Review" is online and ready for readers, with a semiannual publication schedule planned from now on. Read More

Fourteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been named to the 2016 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The class comprises highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, and clinical sciences, as well as business, education and engineering. Read More

Vanderbilt hosted a reception Jan. 19 to honor the members of the 109th General Assembly. State legislators, staff members and other state government officials mingled with Vanderbilt representatives during the event at the Tennessee State Museum. Read More

Vanderbilt IT recommends that you take the following precautions to avoid becoming victims of spear phishing campaigns. Read More

Noted civil rights leader James Lawson, the keynote speaker for Vanderbilt's 2016 MLK Commemoration, told a capacity audience that the American people must choose if the country is to move into a true democracy with equality, freedom and justice for all. Read More

The Commodores will host their annual “Jam the Gym” event on Monday, when the women’s basketball team takes on Alabama beginning at 6 p.m. in Memorial Gym. Fans can purchase $1 tickets to the game and $1 hot dogs during the game. Read More

Message to all university faculty and staff from Barbara Carroll, chief human resources officer Barbara Carroll (Vanderbilt) Colleagues, Nashville is likely to see its first inclement weather of the season starting in the very early hours of Wednesday morning. It sounds like there will be a mix of ice and… Read More

Vanderbilt University political scientist John Geer, the nation’s leading expert on negative political advertising, is available to comment on the U.S. Democratic and Republican presidential primary elections. Geer co-chairs Vanderbilt’s Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Read More

Many people manage to lose weight, but few of them keep it off. Learn how the successful few avoid regaining weight in this article from MySouthernHealth.com. Read More

The Blair School of Music’s Conversations Series will welcome five-time Grammy nominee and guitar virtuoso Robben Ford Feb. 2 for an intimate on-stage conversation, a brief performance, and Q&A session with the audience. Read More

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Geoffrey Woodman, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, will receive a 2016 Troland Research Award. Read More