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A swordplay class at the Vanderbilt Dayani Center. (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) The Vanderbilt Dayani Center is waiving its enrollment fee in January and February 2014 for Health Plus members who wish to join Dayani. The Dayani Center, located across from the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, offers… Read More

On Dec. 9 at 7:15 p.m., a student residing in a Mayfield apartment contacted VUPD to report that an unknown person(s) entered the residence and stole several items. Read More

Minutes from the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate’s Oct. 3 meeting are available online on the Faculty Senate website. Read More

Minutes from the University Staff Advisory Council’s Nov. 12 meeting, which featured Vice Chancellor for Information Technology John Lutz as a guest speaker, are now available online. Read More

The process of converting Vanderbilt’s coal-fired co-generation power plant to a natural gas facility is underway and will necessitate the closure of a portion of Vanderbilt Place from mid-December 2013 through late March 2014. Read More

School of Engineering faculty members Gautam Biswas and Robert Reed have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Read More

The Vanderbilt Commodores will play in the BBVA Compass Bowl Jan. 4, 2014, in Birmingham, Ala., at Legion Field. Read More

On Dec. 8, burglaries in Calhoun and Buttrick halls were reported to VUPD. Read More

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On Dec. 13, 2013 all Vanderbilt University employees will receive an extra 10 percent discount on top of their everyday 10 percent discount Read More

Vanderbilt may nominate three candidates for the 2014 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Clinical Investigator Award. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate each from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate for the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Awards Program Read More

Jack M. Sasson, the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible, offers a new appreciation of the first 12 chapters of the book of Judges in a forthcoming book that is part of the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary Series. Read More

anet McCutchen of Work-Life Connections/EAP interviews Judith Akin, Work-Life Connections/EAP consulting psychiatrist, about ways to enjoy the Holidays – even if you are spending them away from family and friends Read More

The fall 2013 cover story of "Vanderbilt Magazine" explores research projects involving robots that are making us faster, smarter and safer. From bomb disposal to painless colonoscopies, these precocious partners boldly go where man prefers not to. Read More

(images courtesy of Vanderbilt MLAS program) Vanderbilt’s Master of Liberal Arts and Science program will hold an open house and preview of its 2014 spring courses from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, in Cohen Memorial Hall, Room 203. Meet our distinguished faculty as they present… Read More

A Safe Zone workshop is scheduled from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, in Sarratt Student Center, rooms 216/220. The workshop is open to Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff and members of the Nashville community. Register for the workshop here. The Safe Zone program aims to… Read More

Vanderbilt staff and faculty are eligible for a discount on tickets to select performances of these upcoming TPAC shows: John Tesh Big Band Christmas Dec. 18, 8 p.m. I Love Lucy: Live on Stage Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m. Jan. Read More

Brandon Dimmig, a senior mechanical engineering student and president of the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club, and seven other club members spent a Friday in late October at the  Celina K-8 School in Clay County, Tenn., about 100 miles northeast of Nashville. They split teaching duties between fifth, seventh and eighth… Read More