Year: 2011

They are bleeding black and gold from the AutoZone Liberty Bowl Parade to the Battle of the Bands. Are you ready for some football? Go Dores! Visit Bowl Central for everything you need to know about Vanderbilt’s appearance in the Liberty Bowl on Dec. 31, 2011 in Memphis,… Read More

Watch the 70-plus year tradition: The Peabody Duck March.  Leading the way, during Autozone Liberty Bowl week, are Honorary Duck Masters Head Football Coach James Franklin and his daughters, Addison and Shola. Visit Bowl Central for everything you need to know about Vanderbilt’s appearance in the Liberty Bowl on Dec. Read More

A landmark study that found early antiretroviral therapy (ART) can reduce the risk of HIV transmission between sexual partners by 96 percent has been named Breakthrough of the Year by Science magazine. The study, conducted by the… Read More

Kevin Johnson, M.D., M.S., professor and vice chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and professor of Pediatrics, has been named the department’s new chair after an extensive national search. His appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2012. Johnson succeeds Daniel Masys, M.D., who retired in June. As the… Read More

Fourteen members of Vanderbilt University’s faculty have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year. This is the largest number of Vanderbilt fellows to be elected in a single year on record. They are among 539 fellows from around the… Read More

A Vanderbilt-led workshop for military health care providers could lead to more post-deployment mental health referrals. Read More

  Many folks look forward to holiday traditions like decorating, shopping and entertaining this time of year. The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office has put together a list of 15 actions that can tweak your traditions to make them a little greener.   Tree of Knowledge sculpture decked out for… Read More

VUCast’s Carole Bartoo tells us about the “Next Steps” program and the powerful impact it’s having on young adults with special needs-and the Vanderbilt students helping them. You can learn more about the Next Steps program at nextstep.vanderbilt.edu/.  You can read a feature on the program in the January… Read More

Statins, traditionally known as cholesterol-lowering drugs, may reduce mortality among patients hospitalized with influenza, according to a new study released online by The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Read More

Ela Knapik, associate professor of medicine, and colleagues are using zebrafish to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms that cause birth defects of the face and skeleton. Read More

(Benedict Campbell/Wellcome Images) Mitosis, or the separation of chromosomes during cell division, is driven by dynamic interactions between the kinetochore region on chromosomes and string-like structures called microtubules. A number of proteins, including the enzyme Cdk1, regulate these interactions, but it is unclear what kinetochore components such enzymes work… Read More

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given them $1 million to three Vanderbilt scientists to develop a point-of-care sample collection and preparation product that could bring advanced medical diagnostic testing to the third world. Read More

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s weekly newscast highlighting research, experts, students, sports and everything Vanderbilt: Next Steps: Redefining “team effort” A student’s mission to save lives becomes reality A surgeon teaches compassion through memories Rascal Flatts brings harmony to sick children [vucastblurb]… Read More

Watch video of Pasi Sahlberg speaking Dec. 9 on “Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland?” The talk is part of the Peabody Research Office (PRO) brown bag lunch lecture series. These are informal presentations featuring research innovations at Peabody or other areas in the university. Read More

The progression of new drug candidates for schizophrenia with partner Janssen Pharmaceutica is the latest evidence that a new collaborative model for drug discovery pioneered at Vanderbilt may help identify and develop innovative candidate drugs for treatment of major brain disorders. Read More

Young bone marrow cells alleviate aging-related kidney changes in mice. Read More

Protein helps ensure proper division of chromosomes during cell division. Read More

Host cell protein may be a target for strategies to limit spread of virus-induced squamous cell cancers. Read More

Children of childhood cancer survivors who were treated with radiation or some forms of do not have an increased risk for birth defects compared to children of cancer survivors who did not receive such treatments. Read More

Jeffrey Sosman (Vanderbilt) Jeffrey Sosman, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named to a melanoma research Dream Team of cancer investigators supported by Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and the Melanoma Research Alliance. Sosman is among the Dream Team’s principal investigators who… Read More