Year: 2012

The Chemical and Physical Biology Admissions (CPB-A) Program, an inter-departmental first-year graduate admissions program at Vanderbilt University, has been renamed the Quantitative and Chemical Biology (QCB) Program. Read More

This year’s Vanderbilt Quality and Patient Safety Pioneer Program is under way with a new set of teams ready to launch. Read More

Nationally known bioethicist R. Alta Charo, J.D., of the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, speaks about pharmaceutical development at her recent Flexner Discovery Lecture in Light Hall. (photo by Susan Urmy)… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Clinical and Translational Research Studio program has won the Award with Distinction for Innovations in Research Training and Education from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Read More

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is inviting people to participate in Wishing Well, a new blog designed to connect and engage the community, patient families, doctors, nurses and others who raise and care for babies and children. Read More

Second-year General Surgery resident Anji Wall, M.D., Ph.D., hasn’t yet decided her surgical specialty, but she’s already written the book on ethics and international medicine, literally. Read More

(photo by Anne Rayner) Caroline Nebhan, right, a fourth-year student in the M.D./Ph.D. training program, explains a cancer research experiment to advocates from the National Lung Cancer Partnership who toured Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center during their recent meeting in Nashville. Nebhan, who works in the research laboratory… Read More

Middle Tennessee’s latest celebrities are the 11-and-12-year-old Little League U.S. World Series Champions from Goodlettesville. But one young player already had quite a fan base built up at a Vanderbilt pediatric diabetes clinic, where he has been a patient most of his life. Luke Brown and his family are also… Read More

Cannon County High School basketball player Rebekah Faulkner doesn’t remember much about colliding with a rival player during a training camp game early this summer. Read More

When Mohana Karlekar, M.D., talks with patient families, she almost always asks what they know about palliative care, and the answer is almost always the same — “Not much.” Read More

During a meeting in Nashville last week, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) called on academic medical centers to make the case for continued, strong federal investment in biomedical research. Read More

Amory Cox, a Pharmacy Practice resident, is making her second visit to the Biostatistics Clinic, a free, 75- minute research help session offered daily by the Department of Biostatistics. Read More

New therapeutic target for angiosarcoma – an aggressive, highly fatal tumor of the blood vessels – identified. Read More

Watch video of Carrie A. Russell, senior lecturer in political science present “We the People: American Citizenship and Voter Identification Laws,” part of this year’s forum to examine voter identification laws as Vanderbilt University marked Constitution Day. Russell’s presentation tied the obligations of citizenship with the effects of voter identification laws. This… Read More

There now is only a small and ever dwindling chance that the remaining undecided voters might influence the outcome of the presidential election, said a Vanderbilt University political scientist. Read More

New research examines what factors lead to teachers re-entering the teaching profession after exiting. Read More

Watch video from the September 21 Lunch and Learn event with John Geer. John Geer, chair of political science, spoke on “Negativity and the 2012 Presidential Campaign: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” This presidential campaign will be the most negative in modern history. Geer argued why that is… Read More

The respiratory virus HMPV uses its fusion (F) protein – which interacts with cellular receptors called integrins – to bind to and enter target cells. Read More

Listen to an interview with Bruce Morrill, Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theological Studies, about his new book Encountering Christ in the Eucharist: The Paschal Mystery in People, Word, and Sacrament. Interviewed by Chris Benda, Divinity School librarian. Read More

Researchers are examining what characteristics make some large, urban high schools particularly effective with low-income and minority students. Read More