Year: 2012

Watch video of Daphne Koller, professor of computer science at Stanford and co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera, delivering the School of Engineering’s annual John R. & Donna S. Hall Lecture. Read More

The most detailed brain mapping study to date has found that the area of the brain that recognizes faces is also used to identify objects of expertise. Read More

The Community Research Partners Meeting, “Obesity Through the Lens of Public Health: Did Our Numbers Really Go Down?” will take place Friday, Oct. 5. It will be held at the downtown YMCA at 1000 Church Street in Nashville, 8:30-10 a.m. A light breakfast will be provided. RSVP to… Read More

“Flulapalooza 2″ will be TWO days offering DOUBLE the options, with the same, super-fast setup as last year. Oct. 17, 2012, 6 a.m–1 p.m. Oct. 18, 2012, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. The tent will be set-up between Light Hall and VA. This event is for ALL Vanderbilt faculty, staff,… Read More

The fourth annual DigitalVU month kicks off Oct. 9. The month of workshops, open houses, lectures, discussions and more is designed to share information on all things online, from social media, to website management, to programming topics and more. View a current listing of events and RSVP. Several… Read More

“Occupy Wall Street, Democratic Process and Lessons for November” will be the focus of the Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box: Conversations with a Philosophical Flavor with David Wood event on Oct. 5. Read More

Pictured (l-r): Nancy Dwyer, Lara Beth Lehman, Carlin Sappenfield, the scarecrow, Carla Beals and Greg Collins. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Dwyer) If you visit Cheekwood Art and Gardens this fall, keep your eyes out for a frightening and funny fellow who looks as though he’s jumped right… Read More

We love hearing from our fans, friends and followers, and we have some very vocal ones on Twitter. Below are just a few of our favorite Tweets from the past week. Be a part of the conversation – follow @VanderbiltU today. [View the story "Our favorite Tweets… Read More

“Energy and Environmental Policy at a Crossroads: The 2012 Election,” a talk by Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin, will take place Oct. 8 at 12:05 p.m. at the Law School’s Hyatt Room.  … Read More

Commodore Award winners Rebecca Pride (left) and Tonya Mills (right) where honored by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) The annual Commodore Award is a presented by the Chancellor each fall, and this year’s recipients were Rebecca Pride, a registered nurse in Perioperative Services, and Tonya Mills,… Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems has been awarded a $17.2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accelerate the Android Mobile Middleware Objects (AMMO2) project. The contract was announced Sept. 19. Read More

"A Bowl of Red Blooms," sculpture by Lori Anne Parker-Danley. The Identity Sculptures Project, a Curb Creative Campus initiative exploring the relationship between creativity and human identity, is seeking submissions from Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students that respond to the topic “creative identities.” Submissions may be in… Read More

(John Russell/Vanderbilt) If you ride a bike or walk to campus for work or class, don’t be surprised if you see people with clipboards making notes as you pass by in the next couple of weeks. In an effort to improve the resources for the biking and walking community,… Read More

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast: What these “sensitive” alligators have in common with humans.  Brainy bugs! Why ants are smarter than the average bug.  And a worldwide “girl power” movement comes to Vanderbilt. Read More

Mary McClure Taylor (John Russell/Vanderbilt) The Office of the Chancellor will host a gathering in memory of Mary McClure Taylor from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the second-floor lobby of Kirkland Hall. Taylor, the beloved university receptionist who left a lasting impression of warmth,… Read More

Staff are invited to participate in disAbility Mentoring Day Oct. 17. (Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities) The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities is seeking staff to mentor an individual with a disability through job shadowing on… Read More

The importance of bees and Tennessee native flowers in local food production is a major theme of a new art installation at the Vanderbilt University Central Library’s Food for Thought Café. Read More

Women who experience early menopause are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than women whose menopause occurs at a later age, according to a new study by Melissa Wellons, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine in the Vanderbilt Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism. Read More

Vanderbilt University and Medical Center faculty, staff, students and volunteers will once again have the opportunity to be part of a mass flu vaccination plan that last year more than doubled the current world record for the total number of vaccinations given in an eight-hour period. Read More

Three Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty members have been awarded grants from the American Health Assistance Foundation to support their research on glaucoma and macular degeneration — the two leading causes of irreversible blindness in the world. Read More