The professional and personal development of graduate students is at the heart of the educational mission of Vanderbilt University . As students, faculty, and staff, we are an educational community and together we seek to build supportive and collaborative relationships that serve students as scholars, professionals, and citizens. All members of the Vanderbilt academic community have a role in, and a responsibility to contribute to, this mission.

This web site serves as a means for graduate students at Vanderbilt University to locate various campus resources — offices, programs, and events — that contribute to student professional and personal development while enrolled at Vanderbilt.

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About the Network
The Graduate Development Network (GDN) is an informal network of faculty, administrators, and students at Vanderbilt University that seeks to facilitate the awareness and use of the many programs that can help students become productive and well-rounded scholars.

Services and Resources
The list below provides links to various offices and groups at Vanderbilt University that support graduate student development. Please contact these offices or groups directly to learn more about their services and resources.
 

Calendar
The calendar of GDN Events and Deadlines lists events, conferences, and semminars, that will enrich Vanderbilt graduate students as scholars, and professionals. In addition this calendar lists upcoming deadlines for funding opportunities that are available to Vanderbilt graduate students.

If you have an upcoming event, conference, semminar, or funding opportunity that you believe should appear on this calendar, please use the forms in the "How to Post" section of this site to submit them for inclusion.


RSS Feeds
This website utilizes RSS, or Real Simple Syndication in order to keep you apprised of upcoming GDN events by delivering them directly to the Bookmarks folder of your web browser, or your favorite RSS agregator. To subscribe to one, or all, of the available feeds, simply click the RSS symbol () at the top of your web browser, click one of the links on the left of this page, or click one of the links in this section.