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April 22, 2024
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WATCH: Class of 2024 students build belonging in personal ways
Image shows students Cambri Driskell, Danait Issac and Cameron Robinson. Image text reads: "Belonging: Enriching the Community."
Belonging happens when people find relationship through inclusion, empathy, shared goals and valuing each other’s ideas and contributions. Meet three members of the Class of 2024 who represent belonging in action, enriching the Vanderbilt community along the way. Read More
SUSTAINABILITY
Vanderbilt continues carbon neutral collaboration with Clearloop, supporting rural West Tennessee solar farm
Infographic that shows how the collaboration between Vanderbilt and Clearloop is Expanding Access to Renewable Energy to Achieve Climate Neutrality
Vanderbilt University will help expand access to clean energy in Brownsville, Tennessee, while further offsetting the institution’s carbon footprint—thanks to the second of three solar farms being developed through the university’s multiyear collaboration with Clearloop, a subsidiary of Silicon Ranch, an alumni-founded solar company based in Nashville. Read More
DISCOVERY VANDERBILT
Vanderbilt welcomes new executive director of Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education
Headshot of ACCRE new executive director Christian Presley.
Christian Presley, the former director of scientific information technology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been appointed executive director of Vanderbilt University’s Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education. Read More
Screengrab of a video titled "The Wond’ry builds a climate-positive future with Climate Innovation Accelerator."
WATCH: Led by the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s center for innovation, the Climate Innovation Accelerator is a first-of-its-kind Nashville initiative that engages an inclusive network of local universities, minority-owned/led small businesses, and nonprofits to advance the city’s leadership initiatives toward a climate-positive future. 
This Week at VU
 
April 22, 2024
All day • University-wide
End of Spring Term Classes
April 22, 2024
3 p.m. • Mayborn 117
Peabody Dean's Diversity Lecture on AI: 'Ethical and Equity Considerations'
Upcoming Events
 
May 4 | Deadline for Submission of Spring 2024 Final Grades
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Alumni Spotlight
James Patterson discusses formative years, book bans, writing process at Vanderbilt event
 
Research
New structures offer insight into how a bacterial motor powers bacterial chemotaxis, a key infectious process
 
ICYMI
Vanderbilt University transitions benefits administration starting July 1
 
Research
Hodges lab sheds new light on mechanisms of gene regulatory divergence between species
 
ICYMI
Business of VU’s eighth cohort accepting applications through April 30 for fall 2024
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VU in the News
 
Politico: Trust issues in health care run deep
The Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats is featured.
 
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Three African Americans appointed to university faculty positions
Yolanda Pierce, Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean, is featured.
 
Nashville Post: Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science names dean
The appointment of Tim McNamara, interim dean of the College of Arts and Science and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, to the Ginny and Conner Searcy Dean of the College of Arts and Science. Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver is quoted.

National Geographic: This 80-foot-long sea monster was the killer whale of its time
Neil Kelley, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, is quoted. 
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