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Vanderbilt University faculty are encouraged to submit applications to the 2021–22 Southeastern Conference Faculty Travel Program. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m. Friday, July 23. Read More

As domestic and international travel resumes at this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vanderbilt University employees are reminded to book their travel through the Concur online booking tool or directly with World Travel Service. Vanderbilt employees must use Concur or WTS to book business travel. Read More

Eighteen faculty members from across the university have been named to the Center for Teaching's Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program. The 2021-22 cohort comprises faculty from the College of Arts and Science, Peabody College and the schools of Engineering, Medicine and Nursing. Read More

Vanderbilt welcomes Commodore fans to Hawkins Field on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, if necessary, to watch the College World Series championship series featuring Vanderbilt and Mississippi State. Fan activities are from 4 to 6:30 p.m. each day on the concourse, with first pitch at 6 p.m. Read More

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Vice Chancellor and Athletic Director Candice Lee congratulate Coach Tim Corbin and the VandyBoys on advancing to the championship series of the College World Series in a message to Commodore Nation. Read More

The Commodores will play Mississippi State in a best-of-three championship series beginning at 6 p.m. CT Monday at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha. Vanderbilt's Hawkins Field will host watch parties on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, if necessary, with the games streaming on the video board. Fan activities are from 4 to 6:30 p.m. each day on the concourse. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate up to three tenure-track faculty per department for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships. The goal of the fellowships is to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Read More

Amy Johnson has been named assistant provost for immersion and experiential learning at Vanderbilt University and will begin her new role on July 15. Jill Stratton also will assume a new role at Vanderbilt as assistant provost for residential education and associate dean for residential colleges, effective July 1. Read More

Vanderbilt University is taking part in the COVID-19 College Vaccine Challenge, which was recently launched by the White House to increase vaccine access and distribution among students and their communities.  Read More

A new community space for multicultural student organizations and their leaders to gather will open on campus this fall, the Office of the Dean of Students and the Student Center for Social Justice and Identity have announced. The Multicultural Community Space also will serve as an additional location for events, programming and storage for these groups. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Inclusive Book Group will meet online Thursday, July 22, to discuss Black Bottom Saints featuring a moderated discussion with the author, Alice Randall, writer-in-residence in African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt. Read More

Amber Pursley, a staff member in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, died suddenly on Monday, June 21. To help process this loss, an in-person grieving session open to the entire Vanderbilt community will be held on Friday, June 25, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Great Room of E. Bronson Ingram College. Read More

 A new online gallery of photos taken in the days, weeks and months following the March 2020 tornados that struck Middle Tennessee is the work of Daniel Perrucci, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering, who wants to make disaster recovery more equitable. Read More

Exercise and movement may be a prescription to mitigate drug and alcohol seeking behavior due to its influence on the brain. Est. reading time: 3 mins. Read More

Down 5-4 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Commodores scratched across two runs—the final one coming on a wild pitch—to defeat Stanford 6-5 in an elimination game at the College World Series in Omaha on Wednesday. Vanderbilt survives to face North Carolina State at 1 p.m. CT on Friday. Read More

The Vanderbilt Graduate Student Council has announced the winners of its inaugural Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards. The awards were designed to identify and honor the hard work and leadership of graduate students at Vanderbilt. Read More

Led by Vanderbilt astrophysicists, researchers work with data from thousands of galaxies to investigate the origins and physics of black hole binaries in nearby galaxies. Est. reading time: 2 mins. Read More

The Global Education Office will support students on 13 programs in eight countries during the fall semester, with plans to expand offerings in the spring. Read More

Faculty are invited to join a panel of Vanderbilt academic leaders as they reflect on the equity, diversity and inclusion efforts within their areas one year after the tragic death of George Floyd and in the current context of continued disparities and injustices still evident in our society. The virtual event is scheduled for Monday, June 28, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CT. Read More

A virtual event to discuss the formation of a Jewish Employee Affinity Group is scheduled for Tuesday, June 29, from 3 to 4 p.m. CT. Those who identify as Jewish, the parents of Jewish children, other family members and friends are encouraged to attend. Read More