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		<title>Southern Festival of Books announces initial lineup for 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Check out the initial author lineup for the 2026 Southern Festival of Books!]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gianni Castiglione named Pew Biomedical Scholar </title>
		<link>https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/18/gianni-castiglione-named-pew-biomedical-scholar/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amber Palmer-Halma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The eyes of some bats may help Vanderbilt researcher Gianni Castiglione develop new ways to protect human sight. Castiglione, assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Science and assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences in the School of Medicine, has been named a Pew Biomedical Scholar. The award provides support to advance research that draws on evolutionary adaptations in animals to develop potential therapies for human disease. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hawkins Field project celebrates milestone with topping out ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Members of the Vanderbilt community gathered at Hawkins Field on Tuesday, June 16, to celebrate the topping out of its new right-field structure. The addition will house private suites, premium seating, two new bars and a new player pitching lab for the stadium that opened in 2002. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Garland Avenue to close for utility installation; parking and bus routes affected</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The western end of Garland Avenue will close from Monday, June 22, through Monday, Nov. 9, as crews install new thermal, storm, sanitary, electrical and telecommunications utilities.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vanderbilt Libraries exhibit marks semiquincentennial by examining nation’s formative years</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reagan Villet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new exhibit at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries celebrates America’s semiquincentennial—the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence—by exploring the United States’ formative years. 'Forging a Nation' will be on view through December 2026.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Billy Hudson receives 2026 Ellis Island Medal of Honor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reagan Villet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ellis Island Honors Society Chairman Nasser J. Kazeminy awarded Billy Hudson, director of the Vanderbilt Center for Matrix Biology and the Elliott V. Newman Professor of Medicine, with a 2026 Ellis Island Medal of Honor on May 16 at a black-tie gala. The Ellis Island Medals of Honor rank among the nation’s most renowned awards, officially recognized by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, with each year’s recipients listed in the Congressional Record.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>$25 million anonymous gift kick-starts Vanderbilt’s new state-of-the-art science building</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anonymous donors have committed $25 million to build a bold new hub of innovation and discovery at Vanderbilt University—a multipurpose science facility that will shape the future of research and education on campus and beyond.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>University of Ottawa, Vanderbilt forge new partnership on Indigenous digital archives and mobile history research</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reagan Villet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The collaboration reflects a shared commitment to advancing respectful, community-engaged research and supporting Indigenous knowledge preservation.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Chezare A. Warren: Rewriting the Deficit Narrative in Education</title>
		<link>https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/17/chezare-a-warren-rewriting-the-deficit-narrative-in-black-education/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porsha Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a middle school math teacher on Chicago’s South Side, Chezare A. Warren, now associate professor of leadership, policy and organizations at Peabody College and principal investigator of The Possibilities Project, noticed something interesting.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Peabody partnership brings engineering to life for students with dyslexia</title>
		<link>https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/17/peabody-partnership-brings-engineering-to-life-for-students-with-dyslexia/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Kiilerich-Hansen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Vanderbilt’s Magnolia Makerspace on a breezy April morning, the school year was winding down for Roberts Academy for Dyslexia fourth and fifth graders. It was a time of year when young learners might be daydreaming about summer vacations and pool days. But that Tuesday, all attention was on the lesson at hand: a boat [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Bill Ivey</title>
		<link>https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/16/bill-ivey/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bill Ivey, a guitar-playing folklorist who founded and was the first director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt, as well as former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts and longtime director of the Country Music Foundation, died Nov. 7, 2025, at his home in Nashville. He was 81.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>George Core</title>
		<link>https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/16/george-core/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[George Eric Core, scholar, editor and writer, died Oct. 14, 2023. He was 84.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Annette Eskind</title>
		<link>https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/16/annette-eskind/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Annette Schaffer Eskind, a civic leader and philanthropist who, with her late husband, Irwin Eskind, MD’48, made transformational contributions to Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and throughout the city of Nashville, died July 13, 2025. She was 97.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Equation for Success</title>
		<link>https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/16/the-equation-for-success/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Elizabeth Olson and Robert Lee Brown Scholarship gives future generations of Vanderbilt engineering students an opportunity to pursue their dreams.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Engagement Takes Root</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Avery Dickins de Girón bridges academic work with the wider Vanderbilt and Nashville communities, ensuring that cultural learning is shared and carried forward.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Community Beyond Campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[College sweethearts Mary and Patrick Mudge facilitate connection among Atlanta-based Commodores.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Roy Kramer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Roy Kramer, who was athletic director at Vanderbilt from 1978 to 1990 and then turned the Southeastern Conference into a lucrative national power as commissioner, died Dec. 4, 2025, in Maryville, Tenn. He was 96.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Welcome, Commodores: Shop Vanderbilt back-to-school styles for the whole family</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Class is almost in session, Commodores!  As excitement builds for the academic year, now is the perfect time to stock up on essentials and celebrate becoming part of the Vanderbilt family.  The Vanderbilt Incoming Families Shopping Guide is a curated collection of apparel, headwear, accessories, residence hall essentials and game day favorites for new students, proud parents and grandparents, siblings and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Quantum Potential Podcast BONUS EPISODE: Language and its political and social power with associate professor of English Akshya Saxena</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all love to talk. But is language just a tool we use to communicate—or is it something more powerful? How does it impact democracy, identity and access? In this episode of the Quantum Potential podcast, Akshya Saxena, associate professor of English at Vanderbilt, and Provost C. Cybele Raver dig into the fascinating and layered history—and future—of language. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Martin Egli’s Kairos Lecture focused on RNA’s physical characteristics and how they influence its biological roles and disease</title>
		<link>https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences/2026/06/03/martin-eglis-kairos-lecture-focused-on-rnas-physical-characteristics-and-how-they-influence-its-biological-roles-and-disease/#new_tab</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reagan Villet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Martin Egli, the Richard N. Armstrong, Ph.D. Professor of Innovation in Biochemistry and a professor of biochemistry at the School of Medicine Basic Sciences, delivered a Kairos Lecture on May 28. Egli’s work, which has resulted in over 300 publications and two influential nucleic acid textbooks, has advanced strategies to stabilize RNA for therapeutic applications, including siRNA. He has received major honors and extensively served his department and the university.]]></description>
		
		
		
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