Year: 2012

Joan Steitz The 2012 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science has been awarded to Yale University professor Joan Steitz, Ph.D., whose pioneering work has helped reveal and clarify the complexities of RNA and the roles that RNA molecules play in health and disease. The prize, established by… Read More

Ants have four to five times more odor receptors than most other insects, a team of researchers have discovered. Read More

This Week on VUCast: How engineering students are driving the next big idea for the U.S. military. Why is Vanderbilt seeing green? See how Vanderbilt is getting fans pumped up to Anchor Down! [vucastblurb]… Read More

Pierce-Baker (Vanderbilt) Charlotte Pierce-Baker, a professor of women’s and gender studies and of English at Vanderbilt, will appear at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, at Parnassus Books. The bookstore is located at 3900 Hillsboro Pike,
 Suite 14, in Green Hills. She will read for students, faculty… Read More

Distinguished New Testament scholar and former Vanderbilt Divinity School dean has died. 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

Your faculty/staff discount is now good at retail spots at Vanderbilt home football games.(John Russell/Vanderbilt) Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt University now honors the Vanderbilt faculty/staff 10 percent discount at all Vanderbilt home football games. In addition to its retail location on West End Ave., the bookstore has… Read More

A novel approach to improve location information to centimeter scale accuracy using the global positioning system has earned a Google Research Award for an engineering professor and his team. Read More

(iStock) September is National Cholesterol Education Month and Health Plus is encouraging faculty and staff to get cholesterol checks if recommended, and to take steps to lower cholesterol if it is high. It is also a good time to learn about lifestyle choices that can make a… Read More

The Holocaust Lecture Series will examine the enduring saga of genocide through insightful and provocative lectures and films. Read More

Deep brain stimulation used to treat Parkinson’s disease may impair some aspects of language processing, a recent study suggests. Read More

The Vanderbilt Dayani Center is now offering a group fitness class punch card for nonmembers to purchase. The punch card gives access to all of Dayani’s group fitness classes, including Zumba, cycling, sculpt, pilates, yoga and more. The punch card is $70 for eight classes. Read More

A representative from Wolfram Research, the maker of Mathematica, will give a free tech talk about Mathematica 8 on Thursday, Sept. 13. Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. Troy Schaudt will speak from 4 to 5… Read More

The Vanderbilt community created a remembrance tree on Alumni Lawn in the days following the tragedy of 9/11. (Vanderbilt) Gather on Sept. 11 to share in the remembrance of the tragedy eleven years ago. Meet at noon at the flagpole on Alumni Lawn. There will be an interfaith prayer,… Read More

The Blair School of Music has a full schedule of free music events this month. (Vanderbilt) Welcome back to another amazing semester of concerts at the Blair School of Music! We kicked off our Fall 2012 concert season with a capacity crowd for our 150th birthday tribute… Read More

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 and other major Tennessee research institutions in a new report. Read More

In 2010 the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment began a unique interdisciplinary study of agricultural adaptation to water scarcity in Sri Lanka's Mahaweli River Watershed. Now a five-year, $3.7M grant from the National Science Foundation, through their Water Sustainability and Climate program, will further the study and its global best practices. Read More

A new exploratory data mining technique for identifying important student learning behaviors and strategies is grabbing entrepreneurial interest and kudos from the international community. Read More

The goal of this column is to dialogue with you in a meaningful way, about both the present and what we see in our future. Read More

Pregnant women who have had prior preterm births may avoid a subsequent early birth if given progestogens, which are natural or synthetic forms of progesterone, a female hormone that naturally increases during pregnancy, a Vanderbilt analysis shows. Read More