Year: 2007

A team of Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research investigators and colleagues from around the world are releasing findings from the largest study to date seeking to identify genes that might increase the risk of autism. Read More

More than 500 Vanderbilt University students will dance the night away to benefit the health and well-being of area children during Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run event to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Children‘s Miracle Network. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research investigators and colleagues from around the world are releasing findings from the largest study to date seeking to identify genes that might increase risk of autism. Read More

In a series of challenging but fun competitions, the engineering students at Vanderbilt University will display their ingenuity and inventiveness to celebrate National Engineers Week February 19-24. Read More

A new organization with a goal of making healthy food reliably available to all Middle Tennesseans will publicly launch Friday, Feb. 23 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Country Music Hall of Fame in downtown Nashville. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Anti-poverty expert to get honorary degree on February 23 Read More

Vanderbilt University was welcomed Thursday into the Million Dollar Circle of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, in recognition of generosity during the 2006 United Way campaign. Read More

Professor Yi Cui has gotten recognition - and funding - for his novel idea that could give YouTube a run for its money. Read More

David Williams II of Vanderbilt University has been elected a fellow by the Tennessee Bar Foundation. Read More

You‘ve heard of junior colleges. Vanderbilt University is offering a new twist — junior junior college — for talented seventh through tenth graders. Read More

Nashville Vice Mayor Howard Gentry Jr. will share stories with middle and high school students across the nation about growing up in a segregated Nashville when he is a presenter for the Vanderbilt Virtual School on Feb. 15. "Breaking the Color Barrier" will be a step back in time to a very different life for African-Americans in the 1950s and even ‘60s, according to Patsy Partin, director of the Virtual School. Read More

A new album of uplifting music from Uganda compiled by a Vanderbilt University ethnomusicologist is being released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of the effort to combat HIV/AIDS. Read More

Vanderbilt University Peabody College of education and human development experts are available to discuss various aspects of No Child Left Behind as Congress considers its reauthorization in 2007. Read More

A group of graduates from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, who now work in the health care industry, has created an association to advance Owen‘s successful health care MBA program. Read More

WZTV Fox 17‘s John Dunn and Photographer Robert Brown spent "a day in the life" with Dr. Corey Slovis, chair of Emergency Medicine, as he works a shift in Vanderbilt‘s Emergency Department. Read More

WKRN News 2‘s Andy Cordan has a report on "the cost of a gunshot" and features Dr. Rick Miller from Vanderbilt‘s Trauma Center. Read More

Operating without direct funding, Tennessee‘s trauma center network is at a critical crossroads, said health professionals today, who launched a statewide education campaign aimed at raising the profile and sounding the alarm bells regarding the system. Read More

Four Tennessee schools and one community outreach program have each won a $10,000 grant from the Vanderbilt Center for Child and Family Policy to help close the achievement gap between white and black and Latino students. Read More

Jessica Pasley, a VUMC employee, talks about African American bone marrow donations on CNN‘s Paula Zahn‘s show. Read More

Community college presidents from across Tennessee will convene at Vanderbilt University Feb. 13 to discuss service learning. The event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. at the First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave. South. It is closed to the public. Media are welcome to attend. Read More