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Vanderbilt’s 2013 Holiday Gift Giveaway is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 13. A free turkey, tofurkey or Vanderbilt apron will be available for staff and faculty members who present a Vanderbilt ID. Read More

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service adjusts the limits for retirement plan contributions to reflect price and wage inflation. Read More

Commodore football fans are invited to join Coach James Franklin and his Vanderbilt student-athletes on campus this Sunday evening as the team celebrates its third consecutive bowl game invitation. Read More

Are you interested in creating change? Solving problems? Taking a new approach to your work or research? The third annual Curb Creative Practice Boot Camp on Jan. 24 is for you. Read More

Ava Foster Sellers, who in her nearly 50 years at Vanderbilt helped transform the university’s job placement office into a full-scale career planning service with a holistic approach for preparing students for the working world, died Nov. 25 in Nashville. Read More

Peabody's Bethany Rittle-Johnson was one of a select group of education professionals invited to participate in the National Governors Association Expert Roundtable for Strengthening Early Mathematics Education. Read More

Joshua DuBois, author of The President's Devotional (HarperCollins) and a spiritual adviser to President Barack Obama, will speak at Vanderbilt University Divinity School Dec. 4. Read More

Richard McCarty, a distinguished psychologist who has served as Vanderbilt University's chief academic officer since 2008, will step down as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs next year, he announced today. Read More

On Dec. 2 at approximately 12:15 p.m., a student contacted VUPD to report that an unknown male exposed himself to the student behind the Sigma Nu house. Read More

(iStockphoto) Vanderbilt University Medical Center wireless device users may experience a service disruption on Monday, Dec. 16, if they have not moved to the vuNet Wireless Network. On Dec. 16, VUIT will decommission the PatientCare1 wireless network. Users are urged to move their wireless devices—including iPhones, iPads, laptops, desktops, Android… Read More

Regina M. Benjamin, who recently ended her four-year term as the 18th surgeon general of the United States, will receive Vanderbilt’s prestigious Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal in May 2014 when she addresses graduating seniors and their families during Senior Day. Read More

(image courtesy of Office of LGBTQI Life) The Office of LGBTQI Life’s Home for the Holidays celebration is scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, at the K.C. Potter Center. All members of the Vanderbilt community are invited to attend. Basic food items will be provided, but… Read More

Carole Webb Slater will sign her book Letters From the Heart 1943-1946 from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt. The nonfiction work recounts the enduring love story between the author’s father, Cobby Webb, a P-51 pilot who flew missions in Europe… Read More

Martin Rapisarda will discuss the "Difficult Art" exhibition at the Dec. 4 "Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box: Conversations with a Philosophical Flavor with David Wood" at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

On Nov. 25, Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Emory University President James W. Wagner sent a letter to Reps. Diane Black (R-TN) and Tom Price (R-GA) regarding the ongoing budget challenges in Washington, D.C. Read More

The new Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning is digging into its work to research, innovate and support digital learning with a new website, a new program to fund faculty exploration of digital learning, graduate fellows, a faculty advisory committee and more. Read More

Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt will welcome Cory Basil for a very special Gallery B&N at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. The event will include a discussion and Q&A with Basil about his new book, Perils of Fishboy; a book signing; refreshments for all ages (wine for the adults, cider… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development has named Carol R. Johnson, former superintendent of Boston Public Schools, a visiting professor in its Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations beginning in January 2014. Read More

More than 400 top journalists, scholars, communications professionals and newsmakers from across the country will converge on the Vanderbilt University campus in spring 2014 for the national Education Writers Association’s annual gathering. Read More

(image courtesy of Gilda's Gang) Train with Gilda’s Gang Nashville to walk or run the Country Music Half Marathon on April 26, 2014. Gilda’s Gang is a half-marathon training program sponsored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and serves as a fundraiser for Gilda’s Club Nashville. Inspired by Dr. Gail… Read More