Year: 2011

Low blood levels of magnesium are associated with more aggressive prostate cancer, a recent study suggests. Read More

Changes in blood levels of the sex hormone estradiol may provide a clinically useful predictor of death in critically ill or injured patients. Read More

Last year, only days after the floodwaters receded, House Organ published a special issue, “Flood, Sweat and Tears,” examining the 2010 Nashville Flood’s effect on Vanderbilt and its staff and faculty. In this issue, we returned to many of the people profiled in that issue one year ago to… Read More

Vanderbilt is one of three hospitals in the country offering Nitrous oxide for pain management during childbirth. Read More

Anthony Gomez (Vanderbilt University/Joe Howell) The Vanderbilt athletic department will offer free streaming webcasts for all games of the NCAA Baseball Regional through vucommodores.com‘s All-Access. Read More

Photo of a true blue-eyed cicada (Matt Weiss, Cicada Mania) Have you heard the latest buzz going round that scientists at Vanderbilt are paying as much as $3,000 for specimens of the rare blue-eyed cicada? If you have, I hope you haven’t spent a lot of time… Read More

After a storied history of achievement in the areas of teaching, research and advocacy in the fields of prevention and public health, Vanderbilt’s Department of Preventive Medicine is expanding and will be re-named. Read More

Research by Vanderbilt and Claremont political scientists show a significant number of American voters remain biased against Mormons and other religious minorities. Read More

The monthly test of the Vanderbilt outdoor warning sirens will be Saturday, June 4, immediately following the monthly test of the Metro sirens at noon. Read More

Meet one-on-one with a licensed retirement planning counselor for an in-depth consultation regarding your retirement planning needs. Read More

The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program is seeking Friendship Families for international fellows during the 2011-12 academic year. Read More

A meeting of the Community Research Partners will convene Friday, June 10, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Read More

Art, food, culture and adventure await you on Vanderbilt's campus. Read More

Cristiana Grigore is Roma, a member of the largest ethnic minority in Europe. Over the course of her journey from her native Romania to Peabody College at Vanderbilt, she has become an ambassador for her people, an advocate for social inclusion, and is striving to make a difference at the international level. Read More

What do you do when you have a sick child but can’t miss work? An elderly parent who needs care but you just can’t be there? Parents in a Pinch, Vanderbilt’s new backup care benefit, provides trusted help when harried employees need it most. Read More

There are any number of circumstances in which people can effectively lose some or most of their basic rights, says Colin Dayan, the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities. In her new research, Dayan argues that the law has been refined so that it can be used to deny the very rights it’s presumably there to protect. Read More

Learn from the cicadas and live your life to the fullest. Read More

Read about Vanderbilt faculty, staff, student and alumni's latest awards, appointments and achievements Read More

In 1954, 65,000 people filled Vanderbilt Stadium to hear The Rev. Billy Graham speak. Read More

Terrie Barrow has found health, hope and healing in her "urban garden." Read More