Year: 2012

Nearly 2,000 people attended the eighth annual We Care for Kids Day on Sunday, which was hosted by the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and its community partners. Read More

An analysis of Amish populations revealed novel risk genes for late-onset Alzheimer disease. Read More

(Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) Additional volunteers are needed Oct. 17 and 18 to assist with this year’s Flulapalooza, where Vanderbilt University and Medical Center faculty, staff, students and volunteers can quickly receive their flu vaccination during a mass flu vaccination plan. While exempt employees are encouraged to participate as volunteers, non-exempt… Read More

Open Enrollment, the annual opportunity to take charge of your benefits and elect the coverage that fits your needs for the coming year, is Oct. 17-31. This is an active enrollment, which means you need to enroll by 11:59 p.m. Oct. 31 to receive the benefits you want for… Read More

Is race a biological category written in our genes? Or are genomic scientists and biomedical researchers mistakenly using race to explain away health disparities among different population groups? Dorothy Roberts, the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore this issue in an upcoming Chancellor’s Lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

L-r: Mark Bandas, Richard McCarty and Maryclaire Manard (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Associate Provost and Dean of Students Mark Bandas, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Richard McCarty and Vanderbilt Student Government President Maryclaire Manard were on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 9… Read More

Every year the LGBTQI Life staff plans and coordinates National Coming Out Week, a week-long celebration of LGBTQI individuals and history. This event helps to show our LGBTQI students, faculty, and staff the acceptance and support that we know is part of our Vanderbilt Community. This year National Coming Out… Read More

Paul Lambert Paul Lambert, professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of South Carolina, will speak about “Evaluation of the Child With Sensorineural Hearing Loss” at 7 a.m. Friday, Oct. 12. The talk will be in Room 8380 of Medical Center East’s South Tower at… Read More

"Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, Photography by Tim Hetherington" will be on view at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery Oct. 12-Dec.6. (photo by Tim Hetherington) Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, Photography by Tim Hetherington opens Friday, Oct. 12, at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery and will… Read More

(iStockphoto) Friday, Oct. 12, has been designated “Taking a Kick at Breast Cancer Night” by the Vanderbilt women’s soccer team. Fans that show up dressed in pink will get free admission to the home game against Ole Miss. The Commodores, led by coach Derek Greene, chose this event… Read More

Home and community-based services for adults and seniors with physical disabilities will be the topic of a Geriatrics and Gerontology Interest Group lecture from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16. The lecture will be held in Medical Center East, South Tower, Room 8380B. Read More

(Image courtesy of Weight Watchers) A new 10-week session of Weight Watchers at Work starts Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center. The group meets at 11 a.m. in Meeting Room 3, on the Student Life Center’s lower level. The difference between “at work” meetings… Read More

Despite Mitt Romney’s dominant performance in the first presidential debate, President Obama’s favorability rating has been hovering around 50 percent, not enough deterioration to turn the election around for the challenger. Read More

Use of complementary and alternative medicine differs by race and socioeconomic factors, study reports. Read More

Alvin Poussaint, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and faculty associate dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School, will deliver Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s 11th annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 16, in 208 Light Hall. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Stella Flores, whose research shows institutions would lose diversity under race-neutral admissions policies, is available for comment on the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action case. Read More

Spaces in Vanderbilt's Rand Hall are set to re-open this week, following more than seven months of work at Rand and Sarratt Student Center that mark the joint facility’s first major renovation in more than a decade. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty, staff and their families are invited to a special night at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23. Read More

The deadline to register to vote in Tennessee is Monday, Oct. 8. If you are not yet registered to vote in Tennessee and plan to do so on Election Day, Nov. 6, you must register in person at the Tennessee Election Commission, Metro Office Building First Floor, 800 Second… Read More

Vanderbilt professors are well represented among the authors participating in the 2012 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word Oct. 12, 13 and 14 in downtown Nashville. The free festival, which began in 1989, is a three-day celebration of authors, writing and reading. Every… Read More