Year: 2008

Summertime activities can be fun but they can also place your eyes at an increased risk for long-term damage from the sun, or perhaps worse. Read More

Lari White, Buddy Cannon and John Barlow Jarvis will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 19, as part of the 2008 Bluebird on the Mountain series at Dyer Observatory. Read More

Watch video about the Scholar Identity Institute at Vanderbilt University, an innovative program now in its third year that aims to give young black men the academic and personal skills and attitudes they need for lifelong success. The video features interviews with the young men, and program coordinators Gilman Whiting and Donna Ford. Read More

The struggling state of the arts in America and the consequences of that struggle for the nation\'s culture were the focus of an event July 15 at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. featuring Bill Ivey, director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Video of the event is available. Read More

Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., whose passionate advocacy for racial equality and diversity was shaped by his early exposure to the Civil Rights Movement and its leaders, has been named the university's 2008 Distinguished Alumnus. The Vanderbilt Alumni Association will honor Watkins, a noted cardiac surgeon, at an Oct. 22 dinner at the Student Life Center. Read More

Vanderbilt Medical Center\'s technological savvy continues to garner national acclaim, as evidenced by the institution once again being named among the nation\'s 100 "most wired" hospitals and health systems. Read More

If anyone has the right stuff to set up a system to manage the new wave of federal export control regulations that is crashing down on Vanderbilt and the nation's other research universities, it is Marcia E. Williams. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Behavior Analysis Clinic, which serves families who have a child with an intellectual or other developmental disability and who also engage in challenging behaviors, is now working with children as young as 3 years old. Read More

Pediatricians can help prevent future violent behaviors in their patients with a brief, one-time office intervention during a routine exam, according to a new study published in the July issue of Pediatrics. Read More

Tips to tone up your upper body and hear from some of the first inductees in the Vandy Athletics Hall of Fame! (6:21) Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have received a five-year, $5.7 million federal grant to study the human brain using one of the world’s most powerful magnets. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering grant represents the renewal of a Bioengineering Research Partnership grant originally awarded for $4 million in 2002 to… Read More

U.S. ARMY PHOTO/STAFF SGT. RUSSELL LEE KLIKA June 28, 2006, Iraq. As the Humvee passed through the streets, Command Sgt. Maj. David Allard spotted the Taliban in their distinctive cloaks. Nothing unusual about that–yet something told Allard to look back. He shifted his weight forward and turned his head… Read More

Photo by Daniel Dubois. “There were no rules, there was no hierarchy, there was no management. “ –Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, on how his firm rallied after 658 of 970 employees perished in the World Trade Center. Lutnick spoke at Commencement for the Owen… Read More

www.vanderbilthealth.com/clinicaltrials Asthma? Sleep apnea? A spare tire around your waist? Whatever the malady, chances are Vanderbilt is studying it in a clinical research trial. This new Web site aims to at least triple the number of volunteers for clinical trials of new vaccines, cancer treatments, and a multitude of… Read More

Scott Avett of the Avett Brothers Band performs at Rites of Spring, an annual student-produced music festival to celebrate the end of the academic year. Headline acts for the April 18-19 event were Spoon and Lil Jon. PHOTO BY JENNY MANDEVILLE… Read More

Photo by Daniel Dubois. RNA Interference Heals Growth Deficiency Disorder Vanderbilt researchers have demonstrated for the first time that a new type of gene therapy called “RNA interference” can heal a genetic disorder in a live animal. Their study, published last fall by the journal Endocrinology, shows that RNA… Read More

    Photo by Steve Green     Coach Johnson Honored for Suicide Prevention Work Head Football Coach Bobby Johnson was recognized during a ceremony in March for his efforts toward youth suicide prevention when The Jason Foundation presented him with its Grant Teaff “Breaking the Silence” Award. The award… Read More

A full-time and fully staffed office to support the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community at Vanderbilt will launch this fall. The K.C. Potter Center, named in honor of a former dean of residential and judicial affairs at Vanderbilt who was supportive of the GLBT community, will replace a part-time… Read More

Richard McCarty Photo by Daniel Dubois. Richard McCarty, a distinguished psychologist who has led the largest school at Vanderbilt University for the past seven years, has been named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. “Richard embodies Vanderbilt’s values of excellence and fairness,” said Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos in… Read More

Illustration by Normand Cousineau Although manufacturers are responsible for much of the greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States, individuals largely contribute to the problem of climate change, too. So what can be done about it? A diverse group of experts at Vanderbilt University has created the Climate… Read More