Office Of The Provost

Paul C. Taylor, W. Alton Jones Professor and professor of philosophy, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to seek out patterns in the way people and organizations think about equity, diversity and inclusion, which can impact EDI interventions. Read More

Emilie Townes, who will step down as dean of the Divinity School on June 30, reflects on her leadership and areas of change and growth for the school in this Q&A. Read More

March is Brain Awareness Month. Spend a Saturday hanging out with Nashville’s brain scientists at Brain Blast 2023. The event, open to students in grades K–8 and their families, is Saturday, March 25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the downtown Nashville Public Library. Read More

Vanderbilt University leaders hosted visitors from the health care investment firm Deerfield Management on Feb. 23 for a series of events celebrating the ongoing collaboration between Vanderbilt and Deerfield to rapidly advance new therapeutics from the research bench to patients. Read More

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver jointly have appointed a Global Strategy Committee, which includes faculty from all 10 colleges and schools. The committee’s formation, along with the recently launched Global Scholars in Residence program, are part of a campuswide strategy to grow the university’s reputation and collaboration worldwide. Read More

The Graduate School and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs has partnered with Fisk University to create a groundbreaking new postdoctoral fellowship program that will help recent Vanderbilt Ph.D. graduates build their teaching and scholarship portfolios, receive mentoring from faculty at both institutions, and allow time for publishing from their dissertation or preparing other research papers. Read More

Over the past five years, Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have collectively received more than $15 million to purchase cutting-edge instruments through National Institutes of Health S10 programs that support path-breaking research and innovation for hundreds of Vanderbilt researchers. Pre-proposals for these NIH programs are currently being accepted. Read More

The annual spring Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair will be Tuesday, April 11, in the Student Life Center Commodore Ballroom from 3 to 6 p.m. Undergraduate students who have completed research at Vanderbilt are encouraged to apply. Read More

Forty-four faculty members have received the first Provost’s Faculty Grant for Culminating Projects in Immersion to support mentorship of students as they complete their immersion projects. Read More

Dr. Karen Parker, director of the National Institutes of Health’s Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office, will present “Advancing Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research at NIH and Beyond” on Thursday, March 9, at noon in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may choose one nominee for the V Foundation 2023 Adult Translational Cancer Research (Therapeutic Resistance) Grants Program. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a panel discussion, “Confronting Hate: Antisemitism and Racism,” on Tuesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in the Central Library Community Room. The discussion will address the historical links between antisemitism and other forms of racism and their contemporary resonances in the United States today. Read More

Following the tragic shootings at Michigan State University on Feb. 13 that left three students dead and five students critically injured, Vanderbilt leaders have offered their support for the Michigan State community and are reminding students, staff and faculty of resources available to them on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

Two highly accomplished Vanderbilt faculty members will leverage their leadership experience and research expertise in new roles within the Office of the Provost. Read More

Today, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs named Vanderbilt University a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students. Read More

Maj. Gen. Lorna Mahlock, U.S. Marine Corps, will deliver a keynote address at the 2023 Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats in May. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may nominate two early career faculty members for the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Program. Read More

Vanderbilt University may select one nominee per major school/division for the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program. Read More

Nominations are open for the ninth cohort of the Chancellor Faculty Fellows, a program that awards select faculty with financial and institutional support at a key moment in their careers. Learn more and read about past awardees' successes. Read More

Applications to serve as a faculty VUceptor are now open. Faculty VUceptors are dedicated to assisting and learning from first-year students and work to model dynamic and meaningful professor-student interaction. Read More