Year: 2021

Python Series These lessons allow learners to develop programming skills as part of a group of learners working through the curriculum together, or on their own and at their own pace. They are designed to get you started using Python in Jupyter notebooks and teach the basics of the Python… Read More

The J. León Helguera and Manuel Zapata Olivella collections, in addition to Vanderbilt’s Colombian travel accounts, are all invaluable resources that narrate Colombia’s rich and complex cultural, social, and political histories in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first exhibit of Vanderbilt’s Colombiana illustrates Colombia’s profound regional differences in geography… Read More

Complex technical information and research data can confuse an audience if not presented clearly. Learn how to use the narrative structures of storytelling to communicate your research in a way that will resonate with your audience. Register for the Workshop  … Read More

Join the Walker Management Library March 11 from 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. and learn about the powerful data visualization software Tableau. We will go over how to quickly create a visualization and how to use Tableau Public to share your visualizations. No experience is necessary for this… Read More

In honor of Read Across America our Central Library student workers produced a reading of Wherever You Go written by Pat Zietlow Miller and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler. Watch the full reading (this video has limited access to the VU Community and requires a VUnetID and password to… Read More

The National Organization for Women was founded in 1966 in response to the failure of the Equal employment Opportunity Commission to enforce a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and to presidential studies on the lack of equal rights women faced on a daily basis. Local chapters of… Read More

It’s no secret that the Libraries provide access to A LOT of research sources, but how do you know the right ones to use or the best way to use them? Consider attending one of our Research Productivity Workshops every Tuesday in March at 2:10 p.m. Led by librarians,… Read More

With the arrival of the Covid-19 vaccine, artist Carrie Mae Weems created a new image for partners in her project RESIST COVID TAKE 6! Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, in conjunction with “Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice,” a trans-institutional series of virtual conversations and artistic collaborations,… Read More

Are the statistics and graphics in a news story fact-based and free from ideology and bias? Media sources use statistics and visualizations to support claims, but these elements can be abused to mislead the… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is excited to share news of the Kress Collection Digital Archive, a comprehensive archive and database for the nearly 3,500 works of European art that Samuel H. Kress collected, and subsequently gifted to almost 100 institutions. The Kress Foundation donated twelve Renaissance… Read More