Year: 2012

Study suggests that the “kynurenine” biochemical pathway could be a target for reducing delirium and coma in critically ill patients. Read More

Kathleen Flake, a religious historian who teaches and writes about the interaction between American religion and law, will speak April 24 at a Vanderbilt Divinity School Community Breakfast. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy will host a free community forum on autism Saturday, April 21. Read More

Senior engineering students are challenged to solve real-world design issues for university and corporate sponsors during a two-semester design course. Students will share results with their clients and the Vanderbilt community at Senior Design Day, April 19, from 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Read More

Mechanical Engineering graduate students David Comber and Massimiliano Simi have won first and second place in the Three-in-Five competition at the Design of Medical Devices Conference. Read More

Vanderbilt’s idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis research group is embarking on a study to determine the prevalence of sleep apnea in people with other interstitial lung diseases. Read More

A new viral protein structure could jump-start vaccine development for two leading causes of lower respiratory disease in children and elderly adults. Read More

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast: Teach Twice: A Vanderbilt senior’s big idea becomes a social enterprise business College Halls at Kissam: See the future big brother of the Ingram Commons Broccoli’s cancer-chopping benefits [vucastblurb]… Read More

In addition to limited health care resources, biological factors may play a role in the poor survival of children with a common kidney cancer in developing nations. Read More

Targeting diabetes that develops after a stem cell transplant may help moderate graft-vs.-host disease, an adverse effect of the procedure, and improve outcomes. Read More

A brain-mapping study has found that people's ability to make decisions in novel situations decreases with age and is associated with a reduction in the integrity of two specific white-matter pathways. Read More

Peabody faculty will present research on the nation’s key issues in education at the AERA conference April 13-17. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a new insect repellent compound that may be thousands of times stronger than DEET, the active ingredient currently in common mosquito repellents. This new compound is the first of its kind in the world.  … Read More

Watch video of the panel discussion with U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander about his early swearing-in as Tennessee’s 45th governor. The event was hosted by Vanderbilt University’s Heard Libraries  and Law School on April 9. The panel was part of special programming scheduled in conjunction with the exhibit “Come on… Read More

Watch video of “An Evening of Cervantes’ Theater”. This presentation took place on April 2 as part of the Early Modern Spanish Theater: Text and Performance Symposium. The event included the following: “The Cave of Salamanca: A Dramatic Interlude,” translated by Steven Wenz and presented by the Spanish literature students of Professor… Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have discovered that an unusual set of immune cells, called invariant natural killer T cells, can exacerbate obesity-related inflammation. Read More

Of all the issues being debated by politicians, lawmakers and voters, funding health care may be the issue on which no one can agree. Read More

Watch video of Valor, agravio y mujer (closing scene): directed by Rosie Seagraves and presented by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese This presentation took place on April 4 as part of the Early Modern Spanish Theater: Text and Performance Symposium. Read More

Watch video of Vincent Martin of San Diego State University presenting “Stages of Illusion: The Social Imaginary in the Interludes of Cervantes and Calderón” on April 4 as part of the Early Modern Spanish Theater: Text and Performance Symposium. Read More

Watch video of Valerie Hegstrom of Brigham Young University presenting “Tragedy or Comedy?: The Results of Rash Young Love in Lope de Vega’s El caballero de Olmedo and Los Castelvines y Monteses” on April 4 as part of the Early Modern Spanish Theater: Text and Performance Symposium. Read More