Year: 2011

A blood drive, bone marrow registry and tissue-organ donor registry will be held 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 20 in the Children's Theater of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

After a tornado warning was issued for campus on Monday, April 4, AlertVU, was not launched as a result of an unexpected hardware/software failure by the vendor that supplies the technology for AlertVU. Vanderbilt officials have met with the vendor and steps have been taken to assure that this system works reliably in the future. Read More

A memorial service for sophomore Kevin Putney is scheduled 3 p.m. Saturday, April 16, in Farmington, Conn. Read More

It’s easier than ever to access your Vanderbilt Health & Wellness program information all in one convenient location. Three new options are now available to you through the portal: View your Health Plus measurements for height, weight, body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure done… Read More

A new study finds no link between childhood vaccinations and a type of metabolism disorder. The study is the latest to provide evidence of vaccination safety. Read More

Health Plus Walking Wednesdays run April 13-May 18. Read More

USAC/Kroger partnership will raise money for needy employees. Read More

Support the areas or programs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that most interest you. Read More

My study-abroad experience began much like anyone else’s. I spent months preparing personal statements, making travel plans, and preparing for the cultural transition. I would be Vanderbilt’s first, and only, student participating in an Arabic-language study-abroad program at the American University in Cairo, a premier university renowned throughout the Middle… Read More

In the days before bank failures, stock-market tumbles and worldwide economic malaise, a college diploma—especially one from a top university like Vanderbilt—was a one-way ticket to financial security. These days, however, graduates are faced with less-than-certain job prospects. America’s 50 million Millennials represent the most educated generation ever, but they… Read More

Franklin with the team at this year’s first practice in full pads “Isn’t this awesome?” “Really, where else would you rather be?” “Does it get any better than this?” The enthusiastic words rolled across the practice field and over Vanderbilt’s returning football players at the close of their first spring… Read More

(stock.xchng) After years of confusion about the safety of soy food consumption by breast cancer survivors, a large new study found that eating soy foods did not increase the risk of cancer recurrence or death among breast cancer survivors. The study was presented at the American Association for Cancer… Read More

Paul Lim, a historian at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, is one of seven scholars of religion named as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2011-2012. Read More

The Bungee Run was a popular activity. (Vanderbilt University/Mary Donaldson) Hank Ingram House, one of the freshman residence halls that makes up The Commons, hosts an annual Field Day event as an end-of-the-year celebration. This year, the students decided to do something special. They invited… Read More

Watch video of the Spring Faculty Assembly at Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt has dramatically increased its number of endowed faculty chairs and performed well financially through hard economic times, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced during his Spring Faculty Assembly address. “We have and continue to build an outstanding faculty,” Zeppos said… Read More

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Watch video from the April 6 Thinking Out of the Lunchbox event. Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor, Germanic and Slavic Languages, spoke on ”Dreams in the 20th Century.” Why write down dreams? Why try to share these strange experiences that determine our nights? Obviously, there is a need to remember and not to… Read More

Watch video of Vanderbilt Professor David A. Weintraub speaking April 6 on “How Old is the Universe?” as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. David A. Weintraub is professor of astronomy, director of the Communication of Science & Technology program, and director of Undergraduate Studies for Department of Physics… Read More

Watch video of the annual Byrn Lecture by Sanjay Subrahmanyam speaking April 6 on “Before Orientalism: From Paris to Patna in the 17th Century” Sanjay Subrahmanyam, the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA is the author or co-author of nine books. He received his doctorate… Read More

Roughly a dozen years into its history, Google has become “the lens through which we investigate the world,” said cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan. But can we trust the results of a Google search to be neutral, and is our blind faith in the search engine… Read More