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The Peabody Office of Professional and Graduate Education held a reception in honor of George C. Hill, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, on Jan. 19 in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. Read More

As a Vanderbilt employee, you can take advantage of Fidelity’s guidance consulting service at no cost, even if you aren’t currently participating in the retirement plan. Read More

Health Plus presents an informative discussion about cardiovascular health by Dr. Thomas J. Wang at its Feb. 5 Lunch and Learn event. Read More

College of Arts and Science faculty and graduate students have been honored with teaching and mentoring excellence awards. Read More

The "Vanderbilt Historical Review" is online and ready for readers, with a semiannual publication schedule planned from now on. Read More

Fourteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been named to the 2016 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The class comprises highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, and clinical sciences, as well as business, education and engineering. Read More

Vanderbilt hosted a reception Jan. 19 to honor the members of the 109th General Assembly. State legislators, staff members and other state government officials mingled with Vanderbilt representatives during the event at the Tennessee State Museum. Read More

Vanderbilt IT recommends that you take the following precautions to avoid becoming victims of spear phishing campaigns. Read More

Noted civil rights leader James Lawson, the keynote speaker for Vanderbilt's 2016 MLK Commemoration, told a capacity audience that the American people must choose if the country is to move into a true democracy with equality, freedom and justice for all. Read More

W-2 forms are scheduled to be mailed next week to current employees and former employees who earned money from Vanderbilt during the 2015 calendar year. Read More

The Commodores will host their annual “Jam the Gym” event on Monday, when the women’s basketball team takes on Alabama beginning at 6 p.m. in Memorial Gym. Fans can purchase $1 tickets to the game and $1 hot dogs during the game. Read More

Message to all university faculty and staff from Barbara Carroll, chief human resources officer Barbara Carroll (Vanderbilt) Colleagues, Nashville is likely to see its first inclement weather of the season starting in the very early hours of Wednesday morning. It sounds like there will be a mix of ice and… Read More

Vanderbilt University political scientist John Geer, the nation’s leading expert on negative political advertising, is available to comment on the U.S. Democratic and Republican presidential primary elections. Geer co-chairs Vanderbilt’s Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Read More

Precollege music students Kaili Wang and Nolan Harvel, both Myra Jackson Blair Senior Honor Scholars at Blair School of Music, are gaining performance experience at notable venues both locally and nationally. Read More

Many people manage to lose weight, but few of them keep it off. Learn how the successful few avoid regaining weight in this article from MySouthernHealth.com. Read More

The Blair School of Music’s Conversations Series will welcome five-time Grammy nominee and guitar virtuoso Robben Ford Feb. 2 for an intimate on-stage conversation, a brief performance, and Q&A session with the audience. Read More

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Geoffrey Woodman, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, will receive a 2016 Troland Research Award. Read More

The Vanderbilt community celebrated the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of events Jan. 15-18, including lectures, service activities and participation in the Nashville Freedom March. See coverage on the Get Social website. Read More

New approaches to engineering design are needed to solve inequities in global health care, according to a widely acclaimed bioengineer who tackles neonatal health and cancer mortality in low-resource settings in the United States and Africa. Rebecca Richards-Kortum will deliver the Hall Engineering Lecture on Monday, Jan. 25. Read More

With equal test scores, black students are about half as likely as their white peers to be assigned to gifted programs in math and reading, according to a new Vanderbilt University study. Read More