The 40-Year-Plan: Taylor Stokes Graduates

myVU Preview May 4, 2009 myVU Preview provides top news and information each week for faculty and staff of Vanderbilt University. Send questions, comments or story ideas to [email protected].

TOP NEWS

The 40-year-plan: Taylor Stokes graduates

Risko elected vice president of the International Reading Association; will be president in 2011

PayFlex requesting receipts

Employees receive 10 percent off summer basketball camps

Winners of new Peabody education research award named

Graduating senior named to USA TODAY's 20th annual All-USA College Academic Team

For more information and more top stories, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/myvu.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

REMINDER - State of Nursing Address May 5

Free hearing screenings available during May

Free stroke screening May 12

Delivered a baby at Vanderbilt since 2007? We want your input

Great Strides team for Cystic Fibrosis looking for members

Red Hat Enterprise Linux software available at discount

For more announcements, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/myvu.

EVENTS

THIS WEEK:

May 4: Curb Youth Symphony Spring Concert May 4-6: OGSM - "Change Management" May 4, 5 & 8: Blair Concerts May 4-13: The Seventh Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras May 5: State of Nursing Address May 5: Vanderbilt Red Cross Blood Drive May 5: Banjo and Old Time Music with Martin Cerjan and Jim Hornsby May 5: The Vanderbilt Vaccine Center & The Department of Microbiology and Immunology: Dennis Burton May 5: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Michael Robinson May 5: Blair Pre-College Orchestras Concert May 6: Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box - Jonathan Neufeld May 6: Brown Bag Lunch & Learn: A Woman's Money, A Woman's Future May 6-8: Commencement Activities

NEXT WEEK:

May 7: Undergraduate Senior Class Day Speaker: Doris Kearns Goodwin May 7: Inaugural Dr. Dolores C. Shockley Lecture and Partnership Award May 8: Commencement May 8: Blair Children's Chorus Program Spring Concert May 8: Dyer Open House Telescope Night May 9: 68th Running of the Iroquois Steeplechase Benefiting the Children's Hospital (Off Campus) May 12: Employee Stroke Screening

MARK YOUR CALENDAR:

May 16: Charity Events - Great Strides Walk & Waddell and Reed Golf Tournament (Off Campus) May 19: Vanderbilt Family Night with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra on the Lawn

For more staff and faculty events, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/myvu on the calendar at http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu/.

FEATURED PODCASTS AND VIDEO THIS WEEK

Video: VUCast: Watch a medical miracle and start your engines. It's VUCast time.

Video: Vanderbilt Steel Drum Ensembles Concert

Video: "Life in the Universe"

Audio: John Thatamanil's religious explorations

Tune in to VUCast, www.vanderbilt.edu/news, for audio and video of events happening around campus. You can also find VU podcasts on iTunes at www.apple.com/education/itunesu/ and VU videos on YouTube at www.youtube.com/vanderbilt.