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The Data Science Institute is working with Elliott McCarter, senior lecturer in Asian studies, on a new project this semester to bridge language acquisition gap through deep learning. DSI is looking for students to join the project and help harness the latest developments in data-driven research to create a better way to learn new languages. Read More

The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center’s Owls kindergarten program is enrolling students for the 2023–24 school year. This unique kindergarten on the Vanderbilt campus follows a nature-based educational philosophy and offers an emergent curriculum with a learning focus on 21st-century skills. Read More

The Healthy Brain and Child Development pilot study is seeking infants ages 0–9 months and their birth parents. The purpose of this study is to inform a nationwide research project that is intended to learn how children grow and change early in life. Read More

Nightly closures of one lane of Broadway between Lyle Avenue and Division Street began on Jan. 8 for crews to perform utility work at Vanderbilt’s graduate and professional student housing village. Read More

Between academics, training and competition, collegiate student-athletes must juggle a lot. Mabel Cummins, captain of the Vanderbilt bowling team, added to her multitasking over the past year by also serving as president of the university’s Undergraduate Honor Council. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit one letter of inquiry to the 2023 Covenant Foundation Grants. Read More

Vanderbilt University staff stepped up to work over the winter break after a severe cold front swept through the Nashville area and caused frozen pipes and water damage in a handful of campus buildings. Read More

The Vanderbilt Blair School of Music presents “Zohn Collective: Songtree,” an evening of contemporary art music, on Saturday, Jan. 14. The performance is the culmination of a weeklong on-campus residency for the group, sponsored by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies. Read More

A group of Vanderbilt students with diverse majors joined their creative forces for an immersive writing challenge: Take sophisticated science, technology, engineering and math topics and make them compelling for fourth graders. How did they do it? Through storytelling. Read More

Emmy Award–winning journalist Byron Pitts, co-host of ABC’s Nightline, will be the keynote speaker for Vanderbilt’s 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemorative event on Monday, Jan. 16, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Blair School of Music’s Ingram Hall. Other activities planned for VU’s commemoration include a Joint Day of Service on Saturday, Jan. 14, and the Nashville MLK Day March and Convocation on Monday morning. Read More

Vanderbilt University has named Anders Nelson as head coach of its reintroduced volleyball program. Most recently associate head coach at the University of Kentucky, which won the 2020 NCAA championship, Nelson will lead a Commodore program that begins play in the 2025-26 academic year. Read More

Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Mood Disorders Center, will give a Flexner Deans' Lecture on Friday, Jan. 27, beginning at noon in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

Autumn Kujawa, assistant professor of psychology and human development, recently received a two-year, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant of $70,000 for a novel study to identify biomarkers associated with suicidal behavior in adolescents. Read More

Armed with a two-year, $141,444 grant from the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research, Professor of Psychology and Human Development Elisabeth Dykens is developing the first psychometrically sound self-report survey of hyperphagia for people with Prader-Willi syndrome. Read More

A conversation with Dean Donald Brady and Dr. Alex Jahangir about Jahangir’s book, Hotspot: A Doctor’s Diary from the Pandemic, will be on Thursday, Jan. 5, beginning at noon in Langford Auditorium. Read More

The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center recently coordinated a monthlong “Fill the Crib” activity for students at The Acorn School, with every child care center participating. Read More

Multiple Grammy Award-winning artist Sheryl Crow will perform on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in Vanderbilt's Langford Auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. in a Concert for a Cause benefitting Shade Tree Clinic. Read More

Vanderbilt Programs for Talented Youth is accepting applications for summer 2023 programs beginning Jan. 5. If you have an academically advanced learner in your life, PTY has opportunities for them. Read More

College of Arts and Science faculty members Nathan Schley, Allison Walker and John Yang each have been awarded Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award grants from the National Institutes of Health to continue their groundbreaking chemistry research. MIRA grants provide both new and established researchers of general medical sciences with more than $1.9 million over a five-year period. Read More

Vanderbilt University has named Paul Goodman as assistant vice chancellor for plant operations. He comes to the university with more than 22 years of experience in operations, maintenance and logistics management. Read More