Year: 2011

Sean Seymore (Courtesy of Vanderbilt Law School) Sean Seymore has been appointed to the Program in Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Associate Professor in Spring 2012.  … Read More

Football offices and lobby at McGugin Center. (Vanderbilt University / Steve Green) Vanderbilt employees can take advantage of special discounts on season tickets for the 2011 Commodore football season. With the arrival of new head coach James Franklin, the Commodores are looking forward to a strong showing during the… Read More

Nurse Dorothy Terrell enjoys the Special Employee Celebration picnic in 2010 at Medical Center Plaza. (Vanderbilt University/ Joe Howell) Vanderbilt is hosting an Employee Celebration Picnic on Friday, May 20.  Times and locations include: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Medical Center Plaza, adjacent to Vanderbilt University Hospital 11 a.m. Read More

Watch video of Vanderbilt University’s class of 2011 Commencement ceremony. About 2,843 graduates were expected to attend Commencement. Degrees were scheduled to be awarded to 1,734 undergraduate and 1,904 graduate students. The main ceremony, featuring the annual address to graduates from Chancellor Zeppos, was moved to Memorial Gym due to… Read More

Watch video of Wangari Maathai, the 2004 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the environmentally conscious Green Belt Movement, receiving Vanderbilt University’s prestigious Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal May 12 during Senior Day. The Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal, which includes a cash prize, is one of the university’s highest honors and is… Read More

Representative Phil Roe (R-TN) chatting with Prof. Sandra Rosenthal, front, graduate student Scott Niezgoda and Christina West, assistant vice chancellor of federal relations, in Washington D.C. at the 17th annual CNSF Exhibition & Reception. (David Scavone) Last Wednesday, Sandra Rosenthal and Scott Niezgoda accepted the invitation… Read More

Margie Gale, Work/Life Connections-EAP’s nurse wellness specialist, talks with Andre Christie-Mizell, associate professor in sociology, about his research.  The emphasis is on the effect of a father’s time spent with the children and the decrease in bullying behaviors. Listen here. Listen to interviews, tips and tidbits on a variety of… Read More

Babies and You presents “Labor and Delivery” on Thursday, May 19, at noon in Light Hall, Room 407. Margaret Buxton,  a certified nurse midwife from  West End Women’s Health Center, will present. Health Plus offers Babies and You, a work site prenatal health promotion program, to all Vanderbilt… Read More

Health Plus invites you to stop by and have your weight, blood pressure and body mass index checked this week and be entered into a drawing for one of 3 Vanderbilt Bookstore gift cards! May 16, 12 – 2 p.m., The Vanderbilt Clinic, room 2703-2704 May… Read More

The cellular factor Src helps reoviruses enter cells. Read More

Nobel Prize winner, Green Belt Movement founder, and this year’s recipient of the Nichols-Chancellor’s medal Wangari Maathai gave students an inspirational call to action at Senior Day. Hear from Maathai and the graduates. Read more >> [vucastblurb]  … Read More

Protein supplements often recommended after gastric bypass surgery may actually have undesirable metabolic effects, suggests a recent study led by Ronald Clements in the Vanderbilt Center for Surgical Weight Loss. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s acquisition of a 900 megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer will accelerate studies on cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Read More

The question of whether new discoveries about the human genome will cause racism to fizzle or flare was the topic of the two recent discussions at Vanderbilt. Read More

Listen to an interview with Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship. This is part of a series of interviews with Vanderbilt University Divinity School faculty. Interviewed by Chris Benda, Divinity School librarian.      … Read More

HIV-positive men and women can dramatically reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by beginning antiretroviral therapy early, new research finds. Read More

“Thinking people do not turn away from trouble, from evidence of change,” said Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. “They understand their own uneasiness as a trigger for inquiry and they begin to work toward managing the changes that are surely coming by first finding facts.” Read More

Cupcakes are a sweet way to raise money for child literacy. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos presented the Founder’s Medals to the top scholars from Vanderbilt University’s undergraduate and professional schools during Commencement on Friday, May 13. Read More

Sixteen retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s May 13 Commencement ceremony when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Robert W. Blanning, professor of management, emeritus Blanning’s global experience combines the worlds of… Read More