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Vanderbilt’s Faculty Senate convened on Sept. 12 for its first regular meeting of the academic year. Minutes from the meeting are now available on the Faculty Senate website. Read More

"Popular Mechanics" named Vanderbilt mechanical engineer Michael Goldfarb one of this year's “Ten Innovators Who Changed The World” for an exoskeleton he developed that helps people with paralysis to stand. Read More

More than 6,700 users have set up travel profiles. More than 4,125 trips have been booked, and travelers have received more than $2.6 million in reimbursements, 80 percent within three to five days of their report being approved. Read More

Please join in celebrating the life of Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences and a professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, on Monday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m., in Benton Chapel. Read More

Open Enrollment is happening now and all benefits-eligible employees should enroll. Read More

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Alumni of Japan’s Kwansei Gakuin University and its chancellor, Ruth Grubel, toured the Vanderbilt campus Oct. 4. Read More

It’s time to enroll for your 2014 benefits. Open Enrollment started Oct. 16 and continues through Oct. 31. Read More

The Oversight and Compliance Committee on the Protection of Children has finalized a policy addressing the protection of minors, reports Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in a letter to the Vanderbilt community. Read More

Kirkland Hall has reopened following its evacuation and lockdown this morning. Read More

On Oct. 16 at approximately 1 a.m., a Vanderbilt student reported being robbed. Read More

Kirkland Hall was evacuated early on the morning of Oct. 16 after a suspicious envelope was discovered at the building. Read More

Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science supports science education in Metro Nashville Public Schools by bringing hands-on lessons to middle school students. This year, 540 Vanderbilt students are partnered with 110 classroom teachers in 10 schools. Read More

One of the first such programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is celebrating its 45th anniversary as a program and its 25th anniversary as a department in the School of Engineering. Read More

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Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in “Research Universities and the Future of America: A National Convocation on Breakthrough Actions,” a one-day conference held Oct. 10 hosted by the National Academies of Sciences. Read More

Vanderbilt University will celebrate the fall launch of Latino and Latina Studies, a new multidisciplinary program, with several events during Hispanic Heritage Month, including an Oct. 15 talk by author Joy Castro. Read More

Before the Open Enrollment period Oct. 16-31, explore your benefit options by visiting these resources on the OE website. Read More

Vanderbilt’s MFA Program in Creative Writing moved up one notch to ninth in the United States in a survey conducted by "Poets & Writers" magazine and reported in its September/October issue. Read More

The Vanderbilt Class of 2017 was selected from the largest, most academically prepared and diverse pool of applicants in the university's history. Read More