Faculty-Staff Giving Campaign: Changing the environment changed her life

Your gift to the Faculty-Staff Giving Campaign can be designated for special programs like SPEAR that help students and help the environment.

VU, Adventure Science Center set to create interactive exhibits on the brain

This award extends a long-standing partnership between the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and the Adventure Science Center aimed at promoting public understanding of brain science and reducing the stigma of mental illness

New paper shredding vendor saves green

Recently, Vanderbilt University changed confidential paper collecting and shredding vendors to Cintas. The switch allows Vanderbilt to save green by saving money (Cintas costs almost 65 percent less) while helping the environment.

Cancer Center magazine and news websites get facelift

The new issue of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center magazine, Momentum, is now online.ave almost 65 percent less while helping the environment. Explore the new look and features at: http://www.vicc.org/momentum/

Professor’s research provides new insights into the strategies people use to track multiple moving objects

Tracking moving objects is a vital skill for playing sports, driving a car through an intersection and many other daily activities.

FTE awards prestigious fellowship to Divinity student

Rising 2nd year Master’s of Divinity candidate Anthony Sandusky will receive a $10,000 stipend, half to be used for educational expenses, the other half to assist in a self-designed ministry project.

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June 23: DigitalVU Meeting

June 24: Family Re-Union 2010: Families and Healthy Beginnings

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July 8-9: Dyer Observatory Events – Open House Day and Telescope Nights

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Research Study Needs Adult Participants with Overactive Bladder Symptoms

Announcements

Employees who are World Cup fans can get discount at Embassy Suites Cool Springs Athletic Club Restaurant

Teaching assistant orientation to be held Aug. 18-19

Peabody professor delivers address on critical implementation strategies for programs in minority, low-income communities

Team captains needed for Start! Nashville Heart Walk

Chillata discount at Cinnabon

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Featured Media

VUCast: Vanderbilt is growing, “rocking out” and learning from a movie star!

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FROM MOMENTUM: Study suggests personalized treatment for deadly skin cancer

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and incredibly difficult to treat successfully once the tumor has spread beyond the skin.

But the identification of a key player in a signaling pathway involved in melanoma development may offer hope for new targeted melanoma therapies.

Dr. Ann Richmond and colleagues at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center report that a signaling molecule, known as IKKβ, is essential for melanoma tumor development in a mouse model of the disease. The results, published June 7 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, also point to ways of targeting therapies that inhibit IKKβ toward the patients most likely to benefit from them based on their genetic profile.