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The 2013 Tennessee Adult Brothers and Sisters conference will be held April 5-6 at the Holiday Inn-Vanderbilt, located at 2613 West End Ave. in Nashville. The conference is open to adult siblings who have a brother or sister with a disability, siblings-in-law, cousins and professionals interested in sibling issues. Read More

March is Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month. In a new wellcast, Mark Bogard with Vanderbilt Environmental Health and Safety talks about the use of eye protection in certain jobs and what to do for an eye injury in an emergency. Listen to interviews, tips… Read More

The Vanderbilt Dayani Center for Health & Wellness is offering an eight-week outdoor boot camp starting March 25. Read More

The Vanderbilt Sarratt Student Center’s newly renovated Connector Space features the work of Nashville artist and Vanderbilt Curb Creative Campus grant recipient Lori Anne Parker-Danley in an exhibition titled The Identity Sculptures Project from March 16 to June 15, 2013. Read More

The top floor of The Commons Center recently achieved LEED Gold Certification, making it the 13th certified project on campus. Read More

The Predators are back on the ice. Be sure to get your Vanderbilt discount. Read More

Below are a few of our favorite Instagrams taken by our students on Alternative Spring Break. ASB was founded at Vanderbilt in 1987 and remains Vanderbilt’s premiere alternative break organization. It is currently the largest student-run organization on campus, sending over 400 students across the nation and abroad. [… Read More

A Northwestern University professor who studies the articulation of blackness in the American visual arts will speak March 14 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

(image courtesy of The University Club of Nashville) Any graduate of a four-year college or university is invited to place membership at The University Club of Nashville, located at 2402 Garland Ave. on the Vanderbilt campus. The club was established in 1962 to serve staff and faculty… Read More

The winner of the 2013 Vanderbilt Athletics Basketball Sustainability Competition is Students Promoting Environmental Awareness and Responsibility (SPEAR). Read More

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast: Chancellor Zeppos’ reflects on his first five years as chancellor and discusses his vision for Vanderbilt’s future 5-year anniversary; new tool puts engineering students ahead of the competition; and Vandy does the Harlem Shake. [vucastblurb]… Read More

Award-winning historian, essayist and journalist Adam Goodheart will discuss his book "1861: The Civil War Awakening" on March 21 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt is launching a new travel system that offers faculty and staff traveling on university business a better, faster way to book and manage travel and handle expenses for trips. Read More

(image courtesy of Vanderbilt CTTC) The Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization, in partnership with the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center and the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz, PC, will host an Entrepreneur Boot Camp on Wednesday, April 10. The free event will… Read More

Vanderbilt University Divinity School will offer a community class on Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins March 16 as part of its continuing Relevant Religion series. Read More

Police Chief August Washington and Corey Slovis, chairman of emergency medicine, headed to Legislative Plaza to voice opposition to a bill in the Tennessee State Legislature that threatens the ability of the Vanderbilt Police Department to protect the campus. Read More

Each year, Vanderbilt conducts benefits audits regarding covered dependents (spouse, partner or child). These audits ensure that the Health Plan is covering only eligible family members. By involving only a small portion of employees in the audit, the majority of the population is relieved of the paperwork burden of providing… Read More

Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Jeff Balser writes about the effects that immediate federal expense reductions, known as sequestration, will have on the mission and services of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More

"Bubble," submitted by Vanderbilt senior Kate Leisy, was featured on the back cover of the Winter 2013 issue of "Vanderbilt Magazine." Each quarterly issue of Vanderbilt Magazine features a single photograph on the back cover that was taken by a Vanderbilt student, faculty member, staff member or… Read More

The Vanderbilt Americas MBA for Executives program at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is co-hosting learning events March 6 in Atlanta and March 7 in Houston. Both events will introduce local executives to Vanderbilt’s Executive MBA programs and feature a panel discussion and reception. Read More