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Vanderbilt University will make its first institution-wide foray into offering worldwide, free, digital courses by some of its leading faculty members in spring 2013 via the digital learning consortium Coursera. Read More

(iStockphoto) Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to make benefits and flexible spending account choices for the upcoming calendar year. This year’s Open Enrollment begins at 8 a.m. Oct. 17 and ends at 11:59 p.m. Oct. 31. Even if you plan to keep the same coverage in 2013, this is… Read More

Tomlinson Fort (Vanderbilt University) A memorial service for Tomlinson Fort Jr., Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, in Vanderbilt’s Benton Chapel. Visitation with the family will follow at 3 p.m. Fort, 80, died Sept. 13 in Franklin, Tenn. Fort joined… Read More

"Carrie Mae Weems: Afro-Chic" (video still), 2010. (courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Vanderbilt University will host programming on campus and sponsor an event at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in conjunction with the opening at the Frist of Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades… Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School students will share reflections on their May trip to the United States-Mexico border at a Sept. 25 community breakfast. Read More

VUMC and its affiliate medical centers have created a new health plan called the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network that will provide a broader spectrum of care for VU employees. (Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt University Medical Center and its affiliate medical centers — Maury Regional Medical Center, NorthCrest Medical Center and Williamson… Read More

(John Russell/Vanderbilt) Creativity. Innovation. Change. The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is pleased to announce the winners of its signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program, which provides Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students the opportunity to produce original ideas, experiment and innovate in the classroom, and harness their creativity… Read More

The Commons Dining Center is a state-of-the-art facility that features a salad bar, specialty pizza oven, deli, wok, grill and vegan/vegetarian food options. (Vanderbilt University/Steve Green) Culinary website The Daily Meal conducted a study of 2,000 four-year educational institutions to determine the best in campus dining… Read More

“Stage & Screen: The Star Quality of Vanderbilt’s Performing Arts Collections,” now open at Vanderbilt University’s renovated Central Library and Special Collections, invites viewers to step “behind the curtain” of some of the world’s most memorable productions. Read More

"Carrie Mae Weems: Afro-Chic" (video still), 2010. (courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Vanderbilt University will host programming on campus and sponsor an event at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in conjunction with the opening at the Frist of Carrie Mae… Read More

Vanderbilt employees with children between 4 and 14 are being invited to participate in a free four-hour Family Mass Vaccination exercise on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks. Read More

Members of Vanderbilt ROTC, local fire and police and VUPD joined faculty, staff and students on Alumni Lawn for the 9/11 service. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Members of the Vanderbilt community gathered for a moment of silence, prayers and reflection on the 11th anniversary of the tragic events of… Read More

Vanderbilt University was named the 17th-ranked national university by "U.S. News & World Report." Read More

Alyne Massey Alyne Queener Armistead Massey, philanthropist, community leader and longtime member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, died Sept. 11 at her home in Nashville. Elected to the Vanderbilt Board in 1977, she was named trustee emerita in 2003. She made a significant impact on the university through… Read More

Former Navy Commander Paul Gonzales visited the Vanderbilt Virtual School to share his personal survival story. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) by Joan Brasher At Vanderbilt’s Virtual School, 9/11 was marked a day early with emotional presentations by a survivor of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Paul Gonzales, a… Read More

Vanderbilt’s MFA Program in Creative Writing has been ranked among the top 10 programs in the country in a survey conducted by "Poets & Writers" magazine and reported in the September/October issue. Read More

Vanderbilt’s physics and astronomy department has invited the award-winning music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, to deliver a lecture on campus. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is mourning the loss of longtime faculty member Denis O’Day, M.D., director of the School of Medicine’s Emphasis Program and professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management has named Christie St-John as its new director of admissions, effective Oct. 1, 2012. Read More

Joan Steitz The 2012 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science has been awarded to Yale University professor Joan Steitz, Ph.D., whose pioneering work has helped reveal and clarify the complexities of RNA and the roles that RNA molecules play in health and disease. The prize, established by… Read More