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The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Nashville Shakespeare Festival will hold the Bard's Birthday Bash—marking the 454th birthday of William Shakespeare—April 23 on Library Lawn. Read More

The Tennessee General Assembly unanimously passed a joint resolution honoring the memory of Vanderbilt alumnus Perry Wallace on April 11. Wallace, who grew up in North Nashville, integrated Vanderbilt varsity basketball in 1966 and made history on Dec. 2, 1967, as the first African American basketball player to compete in a varsity game in the Southeastern Conference. Read More

Vanderbilt will host a final forum discussing the Nashville Transit Plan before the May 1 referendum vote. The discussion is scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, at the Student Life Center Ballroom. Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty and staff are eligible for a discount on tickets to select performances of the following upcoming shows at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Read More

"Coping with the Stresses and Emotions of Pregnancy," the next installment of Babies and You, is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Light Hall, Room 419. Read More

Asa Radix, an internationally recognized medical expert and researcher on the health needs of transgender and LGBTQ people, will give the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean’s Diversity Lecture on Monday, May 7. Read More

Join the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center for a 30-minute outdoor yoga class and a 30-minute meditation class led by Vanessa Beasley, dean of The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, that will rejuvenate and energize your afternoon. Read More

The Vanderbilt rocket team collected a key award at the NASA Student Launch Challenge and followed up with a successful flight of their rocket April 8 at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may submit one proposal for the Edward Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant Program. Read More

In the university’s continuing program to invest in faculty, two committees have been appointed to develop ideas for a dynamic multiuse facility designed to spur faculty development and collaboration. Read More

Jelena Bogdanović, a leading historian of medieval art and architecture at Iowa State University, will discuss "The Canopy and the Byzantine Church" April 14 at the Divinity School. Read More

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s message to a packed Langford Auditorium on Tuesday revolved around two themes: a call for bipartisanship and a plea for Americans to remember who they are. Read More

The AERA annual conference, “The Dreams, Possibilities and Necessity of Public Education,” will be held in New York City. Read More

A live video stream of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series event featuring Vice President Joe Biden will be displayed at the Vanderbilt Rec Center Multipurpose Facility beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10. Read More

Shaul Magid, professor of Jewish studies and religious studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, will discuss "Can We Speak of a Divine Purpose to the Holocaust? Hasidic and Religious Zionist Perspectives" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room. Read More

Shaul Magid, professor of Jewish studies and religious studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, will discuss "Is Broken Faith Still Faith? Reflections on the Final Sermons of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira of the Warsaw Ghetto" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, at the Schulman Center. Read More

The Healthy Minds Working Group has developed a set of recommendations to further guide the university in its mental health and wellbeing initiatives. Read More

M. Eric Johnson has been reappointed as dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. His second five-year term will begin July 1. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos extolled the important role of America’s research universities in fueling the nation’s future during the Spring Faculty Assembly April 5. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos honored six Vanderbilt academic leaders at the Spring Faculty Assembly with awards recognizing their teaching, research, service and commitment to diversity. Read More