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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 |
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| Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Law School climb in 2022 ‘U.S. News’ rankings |
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Vanderbilt University’s graduate programs showed continued strength in the 2022 “U.S. News & World Report” Best Graduate Schools rankings, which were released today.
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| 2021 Spring Faculty Assembly to be held virtually tomorrow |
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Chancellor Daniel Diermeier will reflect on the past academic year and present many of the university’s highest honors at the Spring Faculty Assembly on Thursday, April 1. The event—to be held virtually—will begin at 4:10 p.m. CT.
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| Return to Campus update for March 31 |
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The latest numbers from Vanderbilt’s COVID-19 public dashboard, the increase in younger patient hospitalizations due to COVID-19, and Nashville’s opening of vaccine eligibility to people age 16-plus are included in this week’s Return to Campus update.
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| Diermeier announces two paid administrative closure days |
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Chancellor Daniel Diermeier announced today that Vanderbilt University will grant two administrative closure days during the upcoming months to acknowledge and celebrate employees’ hard work during this challenging academic year. The two paid administrative closure days will be observed on May 28 and July 2.
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| Award-winning actors Aubrey Plaza and Laverne Cox and Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy,’ to headline 2021 Impact Symposium |
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Actor, comedian and producer Aubrey Plaza; actor, producer and human rights advocate Laverne Cox; and engineer, comedian, author and inventor Bill Nye will be the featured speakers at Vanderbilt University’s 2021 Impact Symposium. This year’s event, which will be entirely virtual, is scheduled for consecutive Tuesdays beginning March 30.
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| The Aspen Institute hosts conversation with Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy co-chairs Ali, Haslam and Meacham |
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The Aspen Institute’s Socrates Program will host a virtual conversation, “Is National Unity Possible?” on Thursday, April 1, at 1 p.m. CT featuring the co-chairs of the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy: former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Vanderbilt faculty members Samar Ali and Jon Meacham.
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| Grace Potter and Chris Mann to headline virtual Giving Day concert on April 7 |
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A special virtual Giving Day concert on Wednesday, April 7, at 6 p.m. CT will feature headliners Grace Potter and Chris Mann, BMus’04, along with drop-in appearances from some of your favorite Commodores, including faculty, alumni, students and more.
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| Engineering school, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ R&D Center enter educational partnership to enhance collaborations |
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The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center have entered an educational partnership agreement that will link top-tier experts from Vanderbilt and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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| STEM faculty to share insights at April 2 discussion on ‘Teaching and Race’ |
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Faculty and instructors seeking to broaden their understanding of best practices to close racial and other systemic performance and persistence gaps in the classroom are invited to “Promoting Persistence in STEM,” a discussion hosted by the Center for Teaching, on Friday, April 2, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. CT.
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| Nominate staff for new awards celebrating excellence; nominations close April 5 |
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A new series of annual awards will launch this spring to recognize the many contributions of university staff to the Vanderbilt mission. Recipients of the new awards celebrating staff excellence will be announced at the university’s first-ever Spring Staff Assembly, scheduled for May 20.
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| FMLA and medical leave move to Origami Risk system April 5 |
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Beginning April 5, Vanderbilt’s process for reporting FMLA and other medical leave will move to the new Origami Risk system. With the new system, employees will continue to follow the same process, but the look and feel will be slightly different.
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| Undergraduate Writing Symposium to celebrate student authors and writing as learning and discovery |
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The Writing Studio’s annual Undergraduate Writing Symposium, to be held as two separate virtual events in April, aims to create a space to celebrate Vanderbilt undergraduates’ achievements as writers and scholars while spotlighting the deep connections between writing, learning and discovery within the undergraduate experience.
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| Applications for summer 2021 VI4 Artist in Residence Program now open to students nationwide |
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The summer 2021 Artist in Residence program applications are now open to all undergraduate students nationwide. Applications submitted online will be accepted until April 2. The residency is facilitated by the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation.
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| Annual Crawford Lecture will discuss burnout March 31 |
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Author Amelia Nagoski will give a virtual talk titled “Burnout: What to do When You’re Overwhelmed and Exhausted About Everything You Have to do and Still Worry that You’re not Doing Enough” on Wednesday, March 31. The event, this year’s Crawford Lecture, will begin at 7 p.m. CT and is part of Vanderbilt’s 2021 celebration of Women’s History Month.
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| Art of Healing Exposition seeks entries through March 31 |
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The Art of Healing Exposition will showcase the ways in which creative arts can be used as a healing tool in our daily lives. Featuring creative, educational and exploratory opportunities, the show will examine how society is navigating unprecedented challenges with a direct impact on our physical and mental well-being. Entries are being accepted through March 31.
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| Interest session for new Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Employee Affinity Group is April 1 |
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A virtual event to discuss the formation of an Asian American and Pacific Islander Employee Affinity Group is scheduled for Thursday, April 1, at 5 p.m. CT. The meeting will be conducted over Zoom.
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| QuestBridge, PersistVU host Money Matters Week through April 2 |
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Money Matters Week, which aims to uplift and broaden the Vanderbilt community’s understanding of the ways in which people and students from low- and lower-income backgrounds experience and navigate systemic and social barriers, will feature a week of events March 30–April 2. The programming will include a faculty panel, virtual workshops and games, and online information on financial literacy and wellness.
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| Los Angeles Times: Op-Ed: Learning from the Nashville model of social change | | |
| Daniel Cornfield, professor of sociology; Dennis Dickerson, the Revered James M. Lawson Professor of History; Larry Isaac, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities and professor of sociology; and the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. write about Nashville’s nonviolent movement and how it modeled a community-centered approach to dismantling Jim Crow laws. | | | | |
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