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Vanderbilt rises to No. 13 among nation’s top universities in latest ‘U.S. News’ rankings |
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Vanderbilt University ranks No. 13 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Colleges rankings. The university also received high rankings in the Best Value Schools and Academic Programs to Look For categories.
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Blair Community Scholars Program seeks to create pathways to higher education, expand music profession and build communities |
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The Vanderbilt Blair School of Music has secured $5 million in funding for the pilot phase of a comprehensive scholarship, the Blair Community Scholars Program, which will recruit highly talented students from underrepresented and vulnerable backgrounds.
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Students, families celebrate at Vanderbilt Family Weekend 2022 |
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The Vanderbilt community welcomed more than 3,000 family members and friends to campus Sept. 9–11 to celebrate this year’s Family Weekend. Events included the Fall for the Arts festival, a question-and-answer session with Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and other VU leaders, a football tailgate, grandparents’ social and more.
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Residential colleges offer leadership development series for undergraduates |
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Assistant Provost for Residential Education and Associate Dean for Residential Colleges Jill Stratton hosted a leadership development series during the spring 2022 semester for the University College Leadership Council, a group of student leaders from the upper-division residential colleges.
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VU community encouraged to practice healthy behaviors; new omicron-specific boosters available |
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There are many things Vanderbilt community members can do to protect themselves, as well as their friends, colleagues and fellow community members, from various illnesses. Among them is getting the new bivalent COVID vaccine booster, which targets the omicron subvariants that currently make up 99 percent of new cases in the U.S.
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Vanderbilt to host PARK(ing) Day TODAY |
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PARK(ing) Day is an annual global event competition where urban areas, such as parking lots, are temporarily transformed into green spaces. Parking spaces along Magnolia Circle in the Peabody College neighborhood will be transformed into a parklet on Friday, Sept. 16.
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Celebrate Constitution Day with the Vanderbilt Libraries today |
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The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will host events on Friday, Sept. 16, to celebrate Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, observed each year to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, and to “recognize all who, by coming of age or by naturalization, have become citizens.”
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‘Before Roe; After Roe? A Reproductive Rights History Teach-in’ is tomorrow |
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Vanderbilt’s Department of History and Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies will host “Before Roe; After Roe? A Reproductive Rights History Teach-in” on Saturday, Sept. 17, from noon to 2 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Room 103. The event is open to the Vanderbilt community.
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Register to vote in upcoming elections on National Voter Registration Day Sept. 20 |
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National Voter Registration Day 2020 is Tuesday, Sept. 20. Vanderbilt students, staff and faculty are encouraged to register to vote using the online TurboVote platform or in person at events on campus.
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Celebrate Latin American/Hispanic Heritage Month with events September–October |
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Latin American/Hispanic Heritage Month, recognized annually from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, honors the history, cultural diversity and unique contributions of individuals and communities whose ancestry can be traced to Spain, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff will celebrate the month with a series of programs and events.
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‘Entropic Systems’ at Space 204 through Oct. 20 |
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Space 204 and the Vanderbilt, Arts and the Middle East: Building Bridges to the Global and the Local curatorial program present Entropic Systems, a solo exhibition from Iranian artist Laleh Mehran. The exhibition, on view through Oct. 20, features an immersive video/audio experience surrounding an engineered drawing piece activated by the movement of gallery visitors.
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