Month: September 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Children’s Hospital offers free car seat checks

    Dylan Hagan, 1, checks out the car seats in the Safety Store, located at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Photo by Dana Johnson. This week is National Child Passenger Safety Week, and Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is offering free car… Read More

    Sep 19, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Faculty response requested for survey on community-engaged research

    Vanderbilt faculty are invited to participate in a survey that will assess their experience with and interest in community-engaged research. The results of this Web-based survey will be used to strengthen support services and capacity building resources for both academic researchers and community organizations, and will help shape the collaborative… Read More

    Sep 19, 2012

  • Image courtesy of Park(ing)Day.

    Students to create temporary park for Park(ing) Day Sept. 21

    Park(ing) Day 2011. Park(ing) Day, an annual worldwide event in which designers and citizens transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks, is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 21. In 2011, 975 parks were created in 162 cities in 35 countries on 6 continents. Organizers hope to top… Read More

    Sep 19, 2012

  • HD Kirkland

    A message from Chancellor Zeppos: Vanderbilt joins Coursera

    Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (Vanderbilt University) Dear Vanderbilt Community: As one of our nation’s and world’s top research universities, Vanderbilt advances its mission by  integrating and disseminating knowledge and information. Increasingly, Internet technology presents an exciting conduit for the broad dissemination of knowledge to millions. Last year, I appointed… Read More

    Sep 19, 2012

  • Digital Learning

    Vanderbilt University to offer free courses online through Coursera

    Vanderbilt University will make its first institution-wide foray into offering worldwide, free, digital courses by some of its leading faculty members in spring 2013 via the digital learning consortium Coursera. Read More

    Sep 19, 2012

  • (iStockphoto)

    Open Enrollment for 2013 benefits is Oct. 17-31

    (iStockphoto) Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to make benefits and flexible spending account choices for the upcoming calendar year. This year’s Open Enrollment begins at 8 a.m. Oct. 17 and ends at 11:59 p.m. Oct. 31. Even if you plan to keep the same coverage in 2013, this is… Read More

    Sep 19, 2012

  • Romney Political Rally

    New Obama attack ad fails to make impact

    A new attack ad that chides Mitt Romney for refusing to release more of his tax return information is failing to spark much of a reaction. Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • (image courtesy of Lady Speed Stick Women's Half-Marathon)

    Half-marathon this Saturday will close some roads around Vanderbilt

    (image courtesy of Lady Speed Stick Women's Half-Marathon) Staff, faculty and students traveling to Vanderbilt the morning of Saturday, Sept. 22, should be aware that the Lady Speed Stick Women’s Half-Marathon will result in road closures in the downtown, Vanderbilt and Hillsboro/West End areas. The organizers’ suggested… Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Tomlinson Fort (Vanderbilt University)

    Memorial service for engineering professor Tomlinson Fort Jr. is Sept. 23

    Tomlinson Fort (Vanderbilt University) A memorial service for Tomlinson Fort Jr., Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, in Vanderbilt’s Benton Chapel. Visitation with the family will follow at 3 p.m. Fort, 80, died Sept. 13 in Franklin, Tenn. Fort joined… Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Vanderbilt sponsoring events in conjunction with Carrie Mae Weems exhibition at Frist

    "Carrie Mae Weems: Afro-Chic" (video still), 2010. (courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Vanderbilt University will host programming on campus and sponsor an event at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in conjunction with the opening at the Frist of Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades… Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Divinity students at vigil

    Vanderbilt Divinity community breakfast to focus on Mexico border

    Vanderbilt Divinity School students will share reflections on their May trip to the United States-Mexico border at a Sept. 25 community breakfast. Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Sustaining Tennessee in the Face of Climate Change: Mark Abkowitz

    Watch video of Mark Abkowitz, Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt, discuss adaptation strategies with a specific focus on infrastructure systems as a means to prepare for future climate change such as extreme weather events. In his presentation, he suggests using a holistic risk management approach to identify… Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Sustaining Tennessee in the Face of Climate Change: Ben Preston

    Watch video of Ben Preston, of Oak Ridge National Laboratories and co-author of the Sustaining Tennessee Report, who provided an overview of the sustainability report for the audience at the release event. The report was a joint effort of seventeen scientists coming from five research institutions to evaluate the future… Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Sustaining Tennessee in the Face of Climate Change: Karl Dean

    Watch video of Nashville Mayor, Karl Dean, providing opening remarks at the report release event. He provided insight as to what Nashville is doing to prepare for the future including the sustainable efforts in response to the May 2010 Flood, such as development of the Flood Preparedness and Prevention Plan,… Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    InsideOut of the Lunch Box: The Culture of a Neighborhood

    Watch video of the most recent presentation in the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series – The Culture of a Neighborhood – which took place on September 13. The Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s production of the Tony award-winning play Clybourne Park sets the stage for an open discussion about the culture… Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Benbow

    The importance of algebra, quality pre-K and addressing reading problems

    Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development, continues to share her expertise with in the midstate and highlight Peabody research in her bimonthly Tennessean column. See what she has to say about why algebra matters, how quality pre-K benefits… Read More

    Sep 18, 2012

  • Brian Bachmann collecting bacterial samples in Snail Shell Cave

    Caving for Cures project gains museum limelight

    If you drop by the American Museum of Natural History the next time you visit New York, there is a good chance that you will see an exhibit highlighting Vanderbilt chemist Brian Bachmann’s "caving for drugs" research. Read More

    Sep 17, 2012

  • Cumberland flowing through Nashville

    Sustaining Tennessee: Challenges and opportunities for making good decisions

    The effects of climate change will have widespread impact on the state, but there are opportunities to offset it by incorporating “climate-friendly” and “climate-resilient” actions into routine management decisions, say scientists from Vanderbilt University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Memphis and the Tennessee Department of Health in a new report. Read More

    Sep 17, 2012

  • VUMC exterior

    Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network serving more of Middle Tennessee

    VUMC and its affiliate medical centers have created a new health plan called the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network that will provide a broader spectrum of care for VU employees. (Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt University Medical Center and its affiliate medical centers — Maury Regional Medical Center, NorthCrest Medical Center and Williamson… Read More

    Sep 17, 2012

  • Perception Experiment Conceptual Image

    Sex matters: Guys recognize cars and women recognize birds best

    Women are better than men at recognizing living things and men are better than women at recognizing vehicles: That is the unanticipated result of an analysis of data from a series of visual recognition tasks collected by Vanderbilt psychologists. Read More

    Sep 17, 2012