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The grand prize winner of the 2013 Global Education Office photo contest is a fun one: Nisha Khorasi’s “Making Camel Friends at the Great Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt.” Read More

Research conducted at Vanderbilt is featured in "Brains on Trial with Alan Alda," a two-part televised series airing Sept. 11 and Sept. 18 on PBS that explores how the growing ability to separate truth from lies may radically affect the way criminal trials are conducted in the future. Read More

Canon Andrew White, pastor of one of the largest churches in Iraq, will discuss "Faith and Leadership Under Fire in the Middle East" Sept. 12 at Vanderbilt University Divinity School as part of the Cal Turner Program Lecture Series. Read More

A new, free massive open online course, or MOOC, from Vanderbilt University launching Sept. 9 uses J.R.R. Tolkien and “The Lord of the Rings Online” to explore what happens to stories and films when they are turned into online games. Read More

September is National Emergency Preparedness Month, and Vanderbilt has launched a new emergency preparedness website to offer resources for both university and medical center faculty and staff. Read More

The bell inside the Kirkland Hall tower will fall silent Sept. 4 and 5 as long-awaited repairs are made to the tower’s clock, which stopped keeping time in mid-June. Read More

Keel Hunt, author of "Coup," will be joined by U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos Sept. 20 for a Chancellor's Lecture titled "A Leadership Lesson for an Angry Age." Read More

New Green Lights screens at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons will display real-time energy use for each residence hall and tell students if the building is meeting its pre-determined energy savings goal. Read More

Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences and a professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, died on Sunday morning, Sept.1, after a lengthy battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). She was 67 years old. Read More

Charlotte Pierce-Baker will discuss her memoir This Fragile Life: A Mother's Story of a Bipolar Son when Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box: Conversations with a Philosophical Flavor with David Wood resumes Sept. 4. Read More

Twelve Vanderbilt University faculty members named to endowed chairs were lauded for their extraordinary academic achievements during an Aug. 28 celebration. Read More

Vanderbilt Student Government and a coalition of Vanderbilt student organizations are encouraging all those attending the university’s football season opener Aug. 29 to wear a “green dot” to emphasize shared responsibility in campus safety. Read More

Vanderbilt has experienced a spike in cyber phishing attempts during this year’s back-to-school time - some of which are very convincing. VUIT cautions all Vanderbilt faculty, students and staff to exercise additional caution and to stop and think before clicking on Web links, emails and Facebook posts. Read More

Be careful when choosing your first job, advises Sam Hirt, director of campus recreation at Vanderbilt, because it might end up being your career. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt professors will develop new math and reading strategies aimed at improving student success with the support of a new $10 million federal grant. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Global Education Office, home of the undergraduate study abroad program, invites the Vanderbilt community to vote in its annual photo contest. Read More

To prepare for the upgraded eProcurement system launch on Tuesday, Sept. 3, the current system will be taken off-line at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30. Read More

"Sacred Ecology: Landscape Transformations for Ritual Practice," a symposium that explores the various experiences of complex ritual sites around the world and across all periods of history, takes place Aug. 30 at the Sarratt Student Center. Read More

Vanderbilt engineers are part of a multi-university project to help determine the most efficient approach to designing and operating cyber-physical systems that support national health, energy and transportation priorities. Read More

Jerry Fife announced he will retire as vice chancellor for administration June 30, 2014. Read More