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Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science | March 2023

The deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville earlier this week shocked the state, the city, and our campus. The College of Arts and Science sends our deepest condolences and support to The Covenant School community, the wider Nashville community, and all who were affected by this horrifying tragedy.

YouTube: intersections: visual art + social justice

Rebecca VanDiver, associate professor of art and architecture, explores the work of Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), an African American printmaker and sculptor whose art served as a vehicle for change in social justice movements and helped bridge the gap between the movement and the museum.

To ensure that our students can make a positive impact on the complex world that awaits them, we need to offer an interdisciplinary, coherent, and relevant curriculum. In this month’s newsletter, Dean Geer describes how A&S faculty have undertaken an intensive effort to overhaul our undergraduate curriculum, which hasn't been revised in almost 20 years, so it meets the needs and ambitions of our talented students and faculty.

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A&S faculty lead comprehensive, collaborative overhaul of undergraduate curriculum

A significant faculty-led effort to redesign the aged College of Arts & Science undergraduate curriculum is nearing completion, aiming to provide a more integrated, inspiring, and enduring program of study for all A&S students.

Paul C. Taylor receives $350K Mellon Foundation grant for EDI study

Taylor, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, explores patterns in the way people and organizations think about equity, diversity and inclusion, which can impact interventions.

High school classmates in Jamaica unexpectedly reunite 20 years later as Vanderbilt faculty

Given their divergent paths and areas of study, it was serendipitous that assistant professors Kimberly Mckinson and Andrea Locke reunited unexpectedly at A&S.

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Grant helps build first-ever U.S. graduate certificate course in multi-messenger astronomy

A $500K grant from the Sloan Foundation to the Vanderbilt-Fisk University partnership, co-directed by Stevenson Professor of Physics Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, will expand equitable pathways to STEM education.

Slate: They were also victims of the Holocaust. Their fight for recognition is still ongoing.
Ari Joskowicz, associate professor of Jewish studies, quoted.

NBC News: Tennessee town blames Jack Daniel's for growing fungus
Antonis Rokas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences, interviewed.

The Tennessean: How Samar Ali became a peacemaker while a student at Vanderbilt University
Samar Ali, research professor of political science, featured.

The Conversation: Smell is the crucial sense that holds ant society together, helping the insects recognize, communicate and cooperate with one another
Laurence Zwiebel, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences, and Stephen Ferguson, postdoctoral scholar in biological sciences, authored.

The Tennessee Tribue: The Hermitage pays respects to the remains of 60 slaves
Dennis Dickerson, Reverend James M. Lawson Chair of History, quoted.

WBOY: ‘Grooming’: The ubiquitous buzzword in LGBTQ school debate
Sophie Bjork-James, assistant professor of anthropology, quoted.

group of students listening to lecture outside beside a large tree

This month, students heard from University Landscape Architect James Moore on how climate change impacts the flora and fauna on Vanderbilt's campus. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for the latest happenings.

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