MyVU Take Note

Looking to connect with colleagues on campus? Join us for a Walking Wednesday at noon on Wednesday, May 24. The group will meet outside Rand Dining Hall at 11:45 a.m., and the walk will begin at noon. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may nominate one candidate each from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program. Read More

MusicTech offers an exceptional summer experience for teens, 12–17 years of age, with a passion for video game music and game design. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty are invited to attend a panel discussion on May 9 from 1- 2:30 p.m. entitled, “Grants Management: Best Practices and Lessons Learned.” The event will be held in Alumni Hall room 201. Read More

Some annual parking lots will be reserved for visitors May 4–5 for the Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. Annual parking permit holders are encouraged to seek other parking locations on those days. Read More

The Department of Pharmacology's 2023 Elaine Sanders-Bush Lecture will feature Dr. Marsel Mesulam of Northwestern University; the "Temporal Pole of the Human Brain" lecture will be at 4 p.m. on May 2.  Read More

The department of cell and developmental biology will continue its seminar series this May. On May 1, Dr. Pascal Kaeser presents: “Mechanisms and Roles of Fast Dopamine Signaling," and Dr. Jason Spence presents: “Interrogating stem cell niches during human development" on May 8. Read More

The STIR Lab at Vanderbilt University is seeking adolescents, age 13-18, for a remote research study involving social media and online safety. Survey participants must have access to a computer with video calling capabilities; parental consent is required for participation.  Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Lectures on Development and Developmental Disabilities will host 'Empathy and Morality Should Not Be Conflated,' a lecture that integrates evolutionary theory, neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economics to demonstrate how various social and situational factors unconsciously and rapidly modulate empathy. The lecture will take place on Thursday, May 4, from noon - 1 p.m.; a limited number of boxed lunches (first come, first served) will be provided - please register to attend. Read More

Students from seven Tennessee colleges and universities submitted poems exploring “What unity through American democracy means to me” for the second annual poetry contest sponsored by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy. The judges selected Vanderbilt senior Sophie Kaiser’s poem as the winner. Read More

The Global Scholars in Residence program is accepting applications for scholar visits during the 2023–24 academic year. Apply by May 26. Read More

Vanderbilt has been invited to participate in the V Foundation 2023 Pediatric Cancer Research Grant Program, with special focus topic “Therapeutic Resistance.” Read More

The Vanderbilt Master of Public Health program is excited to invite you to participate in the Spring 2023 SAS Bootcamp for Vanderbilt University affiliated graduate and professional students, faculty and staff members on May 3. Read More

The fifth and sixth floors of the Baker Garage will be inaccessible from April 24 to Aug. 1 for maintenance and repairs; signs will direct vehicles away from the closed areas. The other Baker Garage floors still will be accessible for parking.   Read More

The Faculty Senate invites Vanderbilt University provost-reporting faculty to join Tracey E. George, vice provost for faculty affairs and professional education, and Eric Cummings, Ph.D., director of the Office of Academic Program Review, Assessment and Accreditation, for an informational session on the decanal review and search process.    Read More

Learn about the importance of having a plan and staying the course, investing best practices and common pitfalls to avoid during volatile markets. The goal is for you to establish a plan if you don’t have one, feel comfortable with your plan and know where to get help. Read More

The Nashville Department of Transportation is working in partnership with WeGo Public Transit, the Nashville Downtown Partnership and the Tennessee Department of Transportation to make getting through downtown easier with the Connect Downtown project.   The… Read More

The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will host an information session for a new Jewish Employee Affinity Group at 11 a.m. on April 25. Those who identify as Jewish are encouraged to attend. The meeting is open to all Vanderbilt employees regardless of identity.  Read More

Kevin Leach, assistant professor of computer science, has won an Amazon Research Award in the fall 2022 awards cycle. The Amazon funds will allow him to advance the state of the art in robust document understanding by developing new iterative methods for collecting and labeling training data. Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core announces a new round of Community Scholars Awards for the 2023-2024 school year. The Community Scholars Award provides support for two graduate or post graduate trainees to perform a community engaged research project collaboratively with a community-based organization, during the academic school year. Read More