Month: September 2012

Vanderbilt University professor Billy Hudson, Ph.D., and his lab have achieved a scientific “bleacher burner” -- their paper is published, discussed in an editorial and featured on the cover of this month’s Nature Chemical Biology, a high profile journal. Read More

Members of Vanderbilt ROTC, local fire and police and VUPD joined faculty, staff and students on Alumni Lawn for the 9/11 service. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Members of the Vanderbilt community gathered for a moment of silence, prayers and reflection on the 11th anniversary of the tragic events of… Read More

Vanderbilt University was named the 17th-ranked national university by "U.S. News & World Report." Read More

Alyne Massey Alyne Queener Armistead Massey, philanthropist, community leader and longtime member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, died Sept. 11 at her home in Nashville. Elected to the Vanderbilt Board in 1977, she was named trustee emerita in 2003. She made a significant impact on the university through… Read More

Former Navy Commander Paul Gonzales visited the Vanderbilt Virtual School to share his personal survival story. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) by Joan Brasher At Vanderbilt’s Virtual School, 9/11 was marked a day early with emotional presentations by a survivor of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Paul Gonzales, a… Read More

Vanderbilt’s MFA Program in Creative Writing has been ranked among the top 10 programs in the country in a survey conducted by "Poets & Writers" magazine and reported in the September/October issue. Read More

(iStockphoto) The Vanderbilt Dayani Center for Health & Wellness is offering an eight-week outdoor boot camp. Boot camp is a high-intensity class featuring cardio drills and strength training exercises. The exercises include, but are not limited to, running, jumping, stair climbing, push ups, sit ups, lunges, squats… Read More

Gretchen Geagan of Life-Links Geriatric Care Management will present “Transitions of Care” on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Read More

R. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a member of the Institute of Medicine, will discuss “Duties of Care, Rights of Conscience” at noon Friday, Sept. 21, in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

(image courtesy of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt) All funds raised at the Cooper Trooper Pumpkin Patch, open during the month of October, will benefit the Cooper Trooper Foundation Fund in Childhood Cancer Research at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The pumpkin patch… Read More

Vanderbilt’s physics and astronomy department has invited the award-winning music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, to deliver a lecture on campus. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is mourning the loss of longtime faculty member Denis O’Day, M.D., director of the School of Medicine’s Emphasis Program and professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Read More

Rob Crosnoe, Professor of Sociology, speaks on “Mexican immigrants and the early development and education of their children” as part of the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations (LPO) Research Colloquium. Read More

Dysfunction or loss of an “antioxidant” enzyme may lead to higher risk for esophageal cancer in patients with gastric reflux disease. Read More

The Tennessee Performing Arts Center is offering discounts to the Vanderbilt community for upcoming performances of three acclaimed stage works. Clybourne Park, a “buzz saw-sharp comedy,” won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Get discounted tickets to the following performances: 6:30 p.m. Read More

Members of the Vanderbilt community can receive discounted tickets to upcoming Nashville Predators home games, including: Preseason Sept. 25 vs. St. Louis Blues Sept. 29 vs. Carolina Hurricanes Regular season Oct. 13 vs. St. Louis Blues Oct. 16 vs. Colorado Avalanche Oct. 18 vs. Vancouver Canucks Oct. 20 vs. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management has named Christie St-John as its new director of admissions, effective Oct. 1, 2012. Read More

Joan Steitz The 2012 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science has been awarded to Yale University professor Joan Steitz, Ph.D., whose pioneering work has helped reveal and clarify the complexities of RNA and the roles that RNA molecules play in health and disease. The prize, established by… Read More

Ants have four to five times more odor receptors than most other insects, a team of researchers have discovered. Read More

This Week on VUCast: How engineering students are driving the next big idea for the U.S. military. Why is Vanderbilt seeing green? See how Vanderbilt is getting fans pumped up to Anchor Down! [vucastblurb]… Read More