Year: 2011

Lecture addresses education reform differences between the United States and Finland, the top-ranked country in math, science and reading. Read More

John Seigenthaler of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt will speak during a celebration of the 220th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Read More

An artist's rendering of College Halls at Vanderbilt, the new residential college being constructed at the site of Kissam Quadrangle beginning May 2012. (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt is set to begin construction of the next phase of its residential college system – College Halls at Vanderbilt – and… Read More

Vanderbilt received five regional Emmy nominations for excellence in television, the industry’s highest honor, when nominations were announced Nov. 18. Vanderbilt Video in the News and Communications office received four nominations for work appearing on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online network newscast. The video team received nominations… Read More

This week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s weekly newscast  highlighting  research, experts, students, sports and everything Vanderbilt: Six ways we kill innovation without even trying ElectionVU expert analyzes the GOP frontrunner Commodore baseball players show their best side [vucastblurb]… Read More

Management professor David Owens of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management says that business and other leaders need to understand exactly which of the constraints are working against them to help create conditions that foster innovation instead of killing it. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music will host the Fourth Annual State of the Word at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in Ingram Hall. The event will feature the region’s top college, high school and middle school poets and spoken word artists. Tickets are $5 each for the general public and… Read More

(iStockphoto) Select frames are free with the purchase of lenses at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute’s optical center Nov. 28-Dec. 30. Now is a great time to use your remaining PayFlex dollars before they expire. The VEI’s optical center is a full-service optical shop located within the eye… Read More

  Vanderbilt's virtual control room for the CMS detector that allows scientists and students to participate in meetings, monitor the experiment and analyze the data that it produces (John Russell / Vanderbilt University) After the most complete search yet, the world’s largest atom smasher, the… Read More

Watch a distinguished panel of business and academic experts discuss the viability of record labels in the digital age during the first Vanderbilt-Melbourne Global Debate. The Nov. 15 debate was the first of an ongoing series born of Vanderbilt University’s partnership with The University of Melbourne. The debate… Read More

Traci Nordberg (John Russell/Vanderbilt) Dear colleagues, We had a tremendous response to the Vanderbilt Staff Community Survey. The next phase of the survey will begin Dec. 5, when our survey partner, HR Solutions, will conduct more than 90 focus groups with employees selected at random from the entire… Read More

Give to United Way of Metropolitan Nashville and help St. Luke’s Community House’s Restore the Dream center continue to help Nashvillians recover from the flood The aftermath in downtown Nashville of the May 2010 flood. (image courtesy of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville) Denice O’Neill was scheduled to return… Read More

(Image courtesy of Health Plus/Vanderbilt University) On Nov. 13, the Vanderbilt community joined thousands of other Nashvillians to support Mayor Karl Dean’s ongoing initiative to improve health by participating in the Mayor’s 5K Run/Walk Challenge. Nearly 200 Vanderbilt faculty and staff logged training activities for several months… Read More

(Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) Most Vanderbilt schools are observing a break from classes Nov. 19-27 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Residence halls close at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, and reopen at 9 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 27. Classes resume Monday, Nov. 28. Dining Services and Vanderbilt libraries will modify their hours over… Read More

Exercise caution this holiday season when it comes to holiday lights, candles and activities that might cause accidental burns. (iStock photo) The “most wonderful time of the year” is also one of the busiest for the Vanderbilt Regional Burn Center. As the holidays approach, doctors at Vanderbilt University… Read More

A Vanderbilt study shows that a class of drugs used to treat autoimmune diseases does not increase the chance of hospitalization for serious infection. Read More

(iStock) Fatty liver, a reversible condition of fat accumulation in liver cells, can result from excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, type 2 diabetes, or metabolic disorders. Exercise can reverse this process, but the mechanisms underlying this effect are not clear. Because exercise is known to stimulate the action of glucagon (a… Read More

A new mouse model provides a tool for testing novel therapeutic approaches for neurofibromatosis. Read More

Short-term hormone replacement therapy offers potential benefit for cognitive functioning. Read More

Mario Ramos has a hard time containing his excitement about the freshly unveiled Americas MBA for Executives program at Vanderbilt. To hear him talk, you’d think that he’s among the inaugural class of 12 Owen students who’ll be traveling to Brazil, Canada and Mexico in the coming months to learn… Read More