Community Collaboration

Greater Nashville Community Engagement

Tennessee Department of Forestry | Forests of the Future

With the crisp, cooler temperatures, Vanderbilt’s iconic white oaks have begun dropping their acorns. While the campus squirrels are busily storing their share, Vanderbilt has partnered with the Tennessee Department of Forestry to collect acorns to plant the forests of the future. READ MORE

Student Engagement

Soil My Undies Research Project

Spearheaded by the Director of Research Initiatives in the Peabody College of Education and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Chris Vanags, “Soil Your Undies” is a collaboration between the university’s ASCEND Initiative and the Tennessee Environmental Council to spread awareness to the Vanderbilt and surrounding Nashville communities on how to better understand the interactions between soil microbes, land management practices and carbon sequestration toward healthy and resilient soils.