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On April 8, the alliance held an event at the Student Life Center focused on building our city’s local technology workforce: “Tech Talent at Scale: World-Class Expertise for Upskilling Nashville’s Workforce.” With discussions on strengthening Nashville’s tech talent pipeline and insights from distinguished experts and industry leaders, this event identified novel collaborative solutions to help bring higher-paying jobs to more Nashvillians and to position the region as a premier center for innovation. Read More

Alex Sevilla, vice provost for career advancement and engagement, announced his plans to step down from his role, effective June 30. Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff in the Office of the Provost Kosha Tucker will oversee the Office of Career Advancement and Engagement in an interim capacity during the transition. Read More

Undergraduate research is a defining experience at Vanderbilt, providing students the opportunity to think critically, apply their knowledge, and engage in the scientific process. However, students also grow in unexpected ways beyond just technical skills they learn in the lab. Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School and the Wond’ry’s Fiber Arts Lab will host a collaborative service project with faculty, staff, students and local communities of faith to quilt mementos for families who have lost a loved one while discussing different faith traditions and pathways toward interfaith solidarity. The mementos will be donated to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for distribution. Read More

Learn more about Class of 2025 engineering student Evelyn Marx's work with the Department of Defense and one of her most fun memories of Vanderbilt. Read More

One lane of 17th Avenue between DeFord Bailey (formerly Horton) and Edgehill avenues will be closed from Monday, April 28, to Saturday, June 7. This work is to separate the storm and sewer lines and install a new sewer line to support the Roberts Academy and Dyslexia Center building. Read More

Jack Roberts Jue grew up with educational opportunities that fed his curiosity and nurtured his love of learning—opportunities he shared as a high school English and history teacher in a low-income school system. But it was the stark disparity of resources for students that propelled Roberts Jue to focus the… Read More

While the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic sent most people into quarantine, doctor of medicine candidate Jessica Quintos Day was on the front lines, assisting in a California emergency room as a medical scribe while an undergraduate. It was that tenuous time that demanded multiple levels of collaboration, which ultimately… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Staff-Letics Program is back with a fan favorite: the Kickball League. This is your chance to relive those childhood memories and enjoy some friendly competition with colleagues as we begin the summer. The kickball season will run from May 14 through May 30. Read More

More than 600 participants at The Acorn School (some three months old) paraded around Magnolia Lawn on April 11 during one of hundreds of activities taking place across the nation for the annual Week of the Young Child. Read More

CAD rendering of a 1,000-foot-long boardwalk includes features such as benches, gangways, and floating vegetation. A zoomed-in section provides a detailed view. A solution is a Cumberland River floating boardwalk, the brainchild of a team of mechanical engineering students who designed two gathering platforms spanning 1,000 feet with three gangways, benches, fishing stations, a kayak launch and floating vegetation to offer ecological education. Read More

Vanderbilt is passionate about supporting and inspiring a new kind of leader. Meet three members of the Class of 2025 carving unique paths to make the world better. Read More

All Vanderbilt University staff are invited to attend the fifth Annual Spring Staff Assembly, either at Vanderbilt’s Langford Auditorium or virtually, on Thursday, May 15. The event will celebrate university staff and their many contributions to the university’s mission. Read More

Eliza Hill’s eyes glisten as she recounts witnessing a 7-year-old boy named Hugh with radial dysplasia (club arms) feed himself for the first time. He was able to accomplish this life-changing goal because of a device she and a team from the School of Engineering… Read More

Learn what inspires Class of 2025 nursing student Keira Claessen-Womack to work with some of the most vulnerable families. Read More

Read how track and field student athlete Sarah Marvin is creating community. Read More

What led Class of 2025 student Malcolm Travis Brown to want to be a chaplain? Learn more about the mission for this empathetic military veteran. Read More

From garden tours to musical bingo, spring in Nashville is full of opportunities to come together. Vanderbilt University is proud to partner with local nonprofits and cultural organizations to offer events that welcome students, faculty, staff—and the broader Nashville community. Read More

See how historian Jane Landers and her team are rescuing enslaved Africans’ stories from oblivion and honoring thousands of lives. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries hosted talks by two international scholars of Jewish history and culture on April 10 in the Central Library Community Room. Markus Krah, the John H. Slade Executive Director of the Leo Baeck Institute–New York/Berlin, and Caroline Jessen, a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture–Simon Dubnow in Leipzig, Germany, discussed the life and legacy of German-Jewish philanthropist and publisher Salman Schocken. Read More