Office Of The Provost

In her new role as dean, Linda Norman's top priority is to increase the School of Nursing's work with interprofessional education, practice and scholarship. Read More

See a complete list of new university faculty for the 2013-14 academic year. Read More

Nontombi Naomi Tutu, a second-year master of divinity student at Vanderbilt University, has been honored with the Otis Social Justice Award from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Read More

Vanderbilt history and political science professor Gary Gerstle was interviewed extensively for a landmark PBS documentary series on the experience of Latino Americans in the United States. Read More

Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read More

Jon Meacham, author of a noted biography on Thomas Jefferson, and Mark Dimunation, who directed the reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's Collection at the Library of Congress, will speak at Vanderbilt Sept. 30. Read More

Charlotte Pierce-Baker will discuss her memoir This Fragile Life: A Mother's Story of a Bipolar Son when Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box: Conversations with a Philosophical Flavor with David Wood resumes Sept. 4. Read More

Twelve Vanderbilt University faculty members named to endowed chairs were lauded for their extraordinary academic achievements during an Aug. 28 celebration. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate in Chemistry for the 2014 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists National Faculty Competition. Read More

Vanderbilt engineers are part of a multi-university project to help determine the most efficient approach to designing and operating cyber-physical systems that support national health, energy and transportation priorities. Read More

Emilie M. Townes was installed Aug. 23 at Benton Chapel as the Vanderbilt Divinity School's 16th dean. Read More

Vanderbilt will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with a midday event Aug. 28. On the evening of Sept. 5, the Rev. Carolyn McKinstry will speak at a free public event in Benton Chapel. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate for the 2014 Faculty Scholars Program. Read More

Vanderbilt may nominate one candidate for the Simons Investigators in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems (MMLS) award, which supports junior faculty for five years at $100,000 per year. Read More

The Vanderbilt Fall Faculty Assembly will be held at 4 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 22, in the Student Life Center’s Commodore Ballroom. Read More

This fall more than a dozen high-achieving Tennessee school principals will begin a yearlong leadership development experience to collaborate with some of the world's top educational leaders. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers Michael Goldfarb, William Robinson and Vicki Greene will be featured in the latest installment of WNPT's "Tennessee Explorers" series. Read More

Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read More

Steven L. Krahn, professor of the practice of nuclear environmental engineering, has been accepted by eminence into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a Board Certified Environmental Engineering Member in the specialty practice of hazardous waste management. Read More

Jim Foglesong, a key figure in the rise of many country music stars including Garth Brooks and Barbara Mandrell who went on to build a second career as a beloved educator, died July 9. Read More