Year: 2012

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

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

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

(Photo courtesy of PBS) “Call the Midwife,” a British drama about the lives of midwives working in the East End of London in the 1950s, will have a free preview showing of an episode at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Read More

(John Russell/Vanderbilt) Creativity. Innovation. Change. The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is pleased to announce the winners of its signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program, which provides Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students the opportunity to produce original ideas, experiment and innovate in the classroom, and harness their creativity… Read More

(iStock) Don’t miss Babies and You: Men have Babies Too!, a panel of experienced dads discussing what to expect during pregnancy, how to offer support during labor and the early weeks of parenting and how to bond with baby. Join us and bring a sack lunch Sept. 20 at… Read More

From left to right, Bill Gibbons, Jason Deal, Mark Cate. Photo courtesy of the State of Tennessee. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s Chief of Staff Mark Cate and Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons were among several state officials to honor 24 individuals from across the state… Read More

Nafisi (Photo courtesy of the author) The Vanderbilt University Speakers Committee will welcome Azar Nafisi, the New York Times best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, to campus Oct. 9. Nafisi will deliver an address at 7 p.m. in the Student Life Center Ballroom. There will be… Read More

Vanderbilt University basketball player Christina Foggie, the top scorer, male or female, at her New Jersey high school and the top-rated recruit, came into her freshman season in 2010 doing all it took to make plays, taking the inevitable bumps and elbows from her opponents. At the sixth game of… Read More

Vanderbilt law professor Mike Newton says Libya needs help building a reformed judicial system from the ground up. Read More

  [Storified by VanderbiltU · Fri, Sep 14 2012 12:13:07Peoplefluent attended the Vanderbilt Industry Career Day this week and discovered a lot of great talent! @VanderbiltU #collegerecruitingGabriella AngiolilloVanderbilt for the weekend #gocommodores #firsttweetNick IzzardWhen you sister gets a information packet in the mail from Vanderbilt.. And she's a… Read More

Eight scientists, including four Nobel laureates, received the first Golden Goose Awards on Thursday, Sept. 13 at an awards ceremony on Capitol Hill. The award was established to highlight the importance of federally funded basic research that, on the surface, seemed particularly odd or obscure, but which ended up having a large impact on society. Read More

Constitution Day will be marked at Vanderbilt with a forum about voter identification laws on Sept. 20. Read More

Workers at a ready-made-garment factory in Bangladesh. (image courtesy of Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights) Three international labor activists will discuss the transformative potential of philanthropy in the women’s human rights movement on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at Vanderbilt. Kalpona Akter and Babul Akhter, co-founders of the Bangladesh… Read More

The Commons Dining Center is a state-of-the-art facility that features a salad bar, specialty pizza oven, deli, wok, grill and vegan/vegetarian food options. (Vanderbilt University/Steve Green) Culinary website The Daily Meal conducted a study of 2,000 four-year educational institutions to determine the best in campus dining… Read More

(iStockphoto) With the start of football season and other fall sports, the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is seeing a significant increase in cases of concussions, heat exhaustion and overuse injuries in its Emergency Department. Nationally, an estimated 3.5 million young athletes receive medical… Read More