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Research Snapshot: Neuroimaging research is the first to show an area of the brain’s role in early abstinence from alcohol, revealing key sex differences. Est. reading time 2.5 mins. Read More

Vanderbilt University Police Department received a report of possible gun shots at the Holiday Inn on West End Avenue at approximately 1:34 p.m. on Monday, May 10. VUPD personnel arrived at 1:36 p.m. along with Metro Police and Metro Fire Department. On arrival, there was no immediate indication of any crime having occurred, nor any victim. However, VUPD continues to investigate. Read More

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier will hold the university’s first Spring Staff Assembly on Thursday, May 20, to share a state of the university address with staff and launch a new series of annual staff awards. The event will be held virtually, and all university staff are invited to attend. Read More

A student-led group called the Vanderbilt Initiative for Public Health Equality is partnering with the Division of Administration to reduce COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy within the campus community. Read More

Senior Emily Kopec is the 2021 recipient of the $25,000 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award, the Department of Art’s top student prize, and senior Cayla B. Mims is the recipient of the $10,000 Merit Award. Read More

Vanderbilt Printing Services is restructuring its operations, consolidating its footprint from an off-campus warehouse on Chestnut Street and will reopen in the former Campus Copy store located in Rand Hall in early June. Read More

A tumultuous entrance into the world set Demetra Hypatia Hufnagel on a trajectory that would inspire her bright future and affect the futures of many young lives to come. Read More

Five Vanderbilt law professors—James F. Blumstein, Tracey E. George, Kevin Stack, Ingrid Wuerth and Nicholas S. Zeppos—have received 2021 Hall-Hartman Awards for Outstanding Teaching from the Vanderbilt Bar Association. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Board of Trust elected seven new members with a wide range of leadership expertise and breadth of experience at its April 30 meeting. Read More

A resolution adopted by the Vanderbilt Board of Trust in appreciation of faculty and resolutions adopted by the Faculty Senate honoring Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente as well as university staff were presented at the senate’s monthly meeting on May 6. Read More

Vanderbilt astronomers lead group that created the roadmap for studying supermassive black holes after detecting the low-frequency gravitational waves they create. Est. reading time: 2 mins. Read More

The past year has been hard on our mental health. The good news is there is greater awareness that we all need to be incorporating regular self-care into our lives for our mental well-being. Here are six  recommendations for continued mental fitness.  Read More

A transdisciplinary team from Vanderbilt, Soterix Medical and the U.S. Army has advanced to the finals of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s xTechBOLT competition, where they will compete in November with four other teams for the $500,000 first-place prize. Read More

Dr. André L. Churchwell will step down from his Vanderbilt University Medical Center administrative role as chief diversity officer and as senior associate dean for diversity affairs at the School of Medicine on June 30. Going forward, he will devote that portion of his time to his role as vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer for Vanderbilt University. Read More

On Thursday, May 6, at 5:58 p.m., Metro Nashville Police responded to a shooting in close proximity to campus, involving a victim not affiliated with Vanderbilt. Read More

The latest numbers from Vanderbilt's COVID-19 public dashboard; changes to health and safety protocols coming later this month; the importance of submitting vaccination records; and updates regarding the university's testing program are included in the final Return to Campus update of the spring semester.  Read More

Daniel Genkins, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of History, worked with the Data Science Institute to build a machine learning pipeline to process digitized ecclesiastical records that touch on the lives of people of African descent, both free and enslaved, in the early modern Atlantic. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy awards Vanderbilt researcher Irfan Ibrahim an Integrated University Program fellowship grant to pursue research on nuclear power. Read More

C. Cybele Raver, a distinguished psychologist who serves as deputy provost at New York University, has been named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier announced today. Raver will begin her new role July 1, 2021. Read More

Vanderbilt University is honoring its Class of 2021 with a special weekend of Commencement celebrations May 14–16. All activities will observe campus health and safety protocols. Here’s what you need to know to guide you through the weekend. Read More