Community

Volunteers are needed for two upcoming events sponsored by the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Dragon Music Sundays, a free concert series held at Fannie Mae Dees Park (Dragon Park), is back for its eighth season beginning May 17. Read More

Alice Randall, Robert Fry, Susan Kevra, Mat Britain and Mitchell Korn are Vanderbilt faculty teaching in Osher Lifelong Learning Institute classes for summer 2015. Read More

The Davidson County Election Commission is recruiting poll officials to staff polling locations for the upcoming 2015 election cycle. Read More

The "100 Miles with the Mayor" events will highlight infrastructure improvements during Karl Dean’s two terms in office that make it easier for people to be active and healthy. Read More

A Vanderbilt Divinity Community Breakfast that will focus on immigration and the church features the Rev. Joseph Breen. Read More

Why do we strive for things that are natural? And is natural always better?" Read More

Autism Tennessee’s parent representatives respond to an average of 3,000 requests for resources and support each year. Staff and researchers wanted to quantify how this support was enriching people’s lives. They will report their findings at a community breakfast on Jan. 9. Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core is pleased to announce a new round of Community Engaged Research Mini-Grants, available for activities that promote ongoing, mutually beneficial, health-oriented research partnerships between community organizations and academic researchers. Read More

Environmental scientist Chris Vanags will discuss overcoming obstacles to scientific innovation at the Nov. 5 Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box talk at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

Vanderbilt Central Library's second Wikipedia edit-a-thon, scheduled for Nov. 1, will focus on global connections. Read More

A Relevant Religion class Nov. 1 at Vanderbilt Divinity School will look at the promises and challenges of racial and religious pluralization. Read More

Nashville is changing rapidly, with new housing and retail areas, lively conversations about transit and unprecedented growth. NashvilleNext—a plan for the future of Nashville—wants your input on how Nashville should grow in the future. Read More

The team of Melissa Morton and Katie Forrester, nurse practitioners for the trauma service at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, tied for first place in the amateur category at the 2014 Music City Hot Chicken Festival. Read More

Vanderbilt is a sponsor of a free, inaugural event that will bring together coaches and others who mentor boys and young men to address the important role they play in developing young men of character and reducing violence against women and girls. Read More

(Vanderbilt University/Steve Green) The NCAA Women’s Final Four is right around the corner. This event will take place April 6-8 at Bridgestone Arena, and your help is needed. If you have already registered to volunteer, no need to do so again. All volunteers are required to attend an orientation session prior to… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is partnering with Metro Parks and Vulcan Materials Company to sponsor “Fossils at the Fort” at Nashville’s Fort Negley on Saturday, April 5. Read More

Book artist Barry Moser and author Ann Patchett will hold a public conversation March 27 at the Vanderbilt Central Library. Read More

Learning and memory, integrative medicine and the Salem witch hunts are a sampling of the spring 2014 class offerings available through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt University. 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