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    Vanderbilt’s Art in the Christian Tradition database launches major update

    Vanderbilt Divinity Library has launched a comprehensive redesign of its Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) website, fully integrating this database of more than 7,000 religious images with the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) platform to support digi... Read More

    August 9, 2026

  • Black and white ink print of a medieval carving on a rectangular block. At the center is an East Syrian cross which is intersecting a baoxiang-hua pattern, set atop cloud and lotus imagery, and surrounded by four words in Syriac script. At the top of the print are handwritten notes about the history of scholarship concerning this carving.

    Vanderbilt to host 2027 North American Syriac Symposium

    Every four years, scholars and students in North American join across institutions to discuss the study of Syriac language and culture. The North American Syriac Symposium, held since 1991, brings together the brightest in the field to discuss topics related to the language, literature and cultural history of Syriac Christianity, extending chronologically from the first centuries C.E. to the present day. … Read More

    August 5, 2026

  • Vanderbilt staff are building the future of work—one AI project at a time

    Vanderbilt staff are building the future of work—one AI project at a time

    The Amplify Staff Fellows program is not a lecture series or a passive introduction to technology. It’s a hands-on innovation lab where small cohorts of staff with intermediate or above familiarity with generative AI meet every other week to experiment... Read More

    July 20, 2026

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    Sacred Ground: Retracing the sites of Nashville’s nonviolent revolution

    Before boarding a bus for a tour of historic Nashville Civil Rights sites, local community members met at Vanderbilt Divinity School to learn about the School’s history with Civil Rights leader Rev. James Lawson Jr. Director of the James Lawson Institute, Taure Brown, welcomed the participants before setting out on… Read More

    July 8, 2026

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    Reading the history of religion in America: 250 years of influence

    As part of the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797, President John Adams approved the following statement: “The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Yet that didn’t mean Christianity wasn’t influential during the Revolutionary era, and the relationship between religion and… Read More

    June 30, 2026

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    Integrative Chaplaincy and the work of grief

    For Chaplain (Captain) William Dykes, ministry is a shared experience of entering fully into the lives of the people he serves. Dykes is a student in the Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Doctor of Ministry in Integrative Chaplaincy program and an active-duty Army chaplain in the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The… Read More

    May 19, 2026

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    Celebrating the graduating Class of 2026

    “Friends, graduates, this now is part of your calling. I hope you will form communities of compassion in an age of outrage,” said Bishop William McAlilly to the 60 graduates and hundreds of guests at Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Commencement. McAlilly is a retired Bishop of the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference… Read More

    May 13, 2026

  • Founder's metal award winners on stage at graduates day

    Vanderbilt University honors Class of 2026 Founder’s Medalists

    Learn about the outstanding graduates chosen as each school's Founder's Medalist recipients for the Class of 2026 Read More

    May 6, 2026

  • Keith Meador

    Keith Meador, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, to retire July 1

    Meador has integrated ethics into the daily life of clinical departments at Vanderbilt Health. Under his direction, the center expanded its reach across specialties, establishing programs in surgical ethics, pediatric ethics and maternal-child health. Read More

    May 5, 2026

  • person looking at AI prompt screen

    The Moral Reckoning of AI

    At Vanderbilt, the future of AI isn't just a technical question — it's a moral one. Read More

    May 3, 2026