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Join HR Employee Learning and Engagement for Conversation Circles, a series for managers and leaders, this semester. January Conversation Circles will focus on performance management and review. Read More

The ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to the United States, Geraldine Byrne Nason, will discuss international relations on Thursday, Jan. 19, at Vanderbilt. The conversation will be from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Vanderbilt Central Library fourth-floor Community Room. The event is open to the public. Read More

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation will host an internal awards town hall on Friday, Jan. 27, at 11 a.m. CT via Zoom. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Department of Sociology will present a lecture by Dorceta Taylor, senior associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion and professor of environmental justice at Yale University, on Thursday, Jan. 26, from noon to 1 p.m. in Alumni Hall, Room 202. Taylor’s talk will explore the intersectionality of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideologies and work. Read More

The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center’s first Work-Life Workshop of the spring 2023 semester will be on Tuesday, Jan. 17, from noon to 1 p.m. CT via Zoom. Read More

A memorial reception for civil and environmental engineering professor James H. Clarke will be Saturday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m. in Featheringill Hall’s Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium. The reception is open to the Vanderbilt University community. Read More

The Robert Penn Warren Center offers a residential one-year interdisciplinary faculty seminar fellowship related to that year’s theme. The theme for the 2023–24 academic year is “The Place of Memory.” The application deadline is Feb. 1. Read More

The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy will host CBS Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, to discuss their book, The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of the Big Lie, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 11 a.m. at the Scarritt Bennett Center. Read More

The Vanderbilt Blair School of Music has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $20,000. Led by professor Douglas Shadle, the grant will fund “Florence Price: A Celebration,” a series of performances honoring classical composer Florence Price.  Read More

“A confusing experimental result almost always means you’ve stumbled upon something interesting and maybe even exciting. I think that’s what makes science fun,” says Lauren Parker Jackson, assistant professor of biological sciences. Read More

Major Jackson, professor of English, director of creative writing and holder of the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities, has been named the new host of the celebrated poetry podcast The Slowdown, produced by American Public Media in partnership with the Poetry Foundation. Read More

Grammy-nominated folk singer and songwriter Mary Gauthier will offer writing workshops for students, staff, faculty and postdocs Jan. 24–25, followed by a reading and performance for the Vanderbilt community on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 5 p.m. at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Read More

Register now for spring Kindermusik at Blair Academy, recognized by Kindermusik International as one of the top programs worldwide. Classes are designed for families with one or more children ages 6 months to 5 years.  Read More

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Charlie “Tuna” Moore, a highly decorated pilot who led the day-to-day operations of U.S. Cyber Command, has joined Vanderbilt University’s initiative on the future of conflict. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College Professor Mary Louise Hemmeter has received an $11.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to expand the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms in diverse districts across the country. Read More

A company co-founded by Vanderbilt mechanical engineering professor Robert J. Webster III has received a breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that could open the door for new diagnostic and therapeutic applications of flexible endoscopy. Read More

The second annual Renaissance Women’s Summit, an in-person event for female entrepreneurs, will be held at the Wond’ry on Saturday, Feb. 25. Gabby Hirata, chief executive and president of Diane von Furstenberg, will attend as keynote speaker. Read More

Catherine Stutzner, a licensed professional counselor and mental health services provider, will give an “Introduction to Positive Discipline” at the first meeting of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center’s Parenting Group for the spring 2023 semester. Read More

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier welcomes Vanderbilt students, faculty, staff and postdocs back to what promises to be an especially rich and fruitful spring semester in a message to the university community. Read More

Nicole Joseph, associate professor of mathematics education, has been named associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. Read More