Year: 2012

Peabody's Pratim Sengupta has won a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Read More

A new Vanderbilt Sports Medicine smartphone application for coaches puts an athletic trainer, a personal assistant and a meteorologist all in the palm of their hand.  … Read More

Cells in the back of the developing brain can give rise to brain tumors, suggesting they may be a target for treatment. Read More

To celebrate the end of the academic year and to thank university and medical center faculty and staff for their commitment, hard work and dedication, all Vanderbilt employees are invited to an Employee Celebration Picnic on Friday, June 22. The event will offer grilled chicken sandwiches, veggie… Read More

Pardon our dust: Kissam quadrangle's six building are in the process of being torn down to make way for a state-of-the-art living-dining experience for students. Photo by Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt for the 365@VU project Demolition of the Kissam Quadrangle continues this week as Vanderbilt makes way for the construction… Read More

Fred Russell and family (archive photo) Meet Vanderbilt alumnus Andrew Derr at a book reading and signing of Life of Dreams: The Good Times of Sportswriter Fred Russell. The event will take place at the Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt on West End Ave. June 15, 6-8 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt's Jean and Alexander Heard Library (Central Library), as seen from 21st Avenue South. (Photo by Jon Erickson) Internet technology (IT)  in 21st century higher education and its impact on libraries and IT departments will be the focus of a June 19 panel discussion in the Central Library’s… Read More

The Rev. Jaco Hamman, a professor of pastoral care and counseling who studies the confluence of theology and psychology in people’s lives, is the new director of Vanderbilt University Divinity School’s Program in Theology and Practice. Read More

A small telescope with a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera has discovered the existence of two very unusual exoplanets. Read More

Pinson (Vanderbilt) This week’s Faculty/Staff Health and Wellness Wellcast, titled “The Wright Stuff,” is the series’ landmark 200th podcast. Listen as Mary Yarbrough, executive director of Faculty/Staff Health and Wellness, talks with C. Wright Pinson, deputy vice chancellor for Health Affairs and… Read More

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death for men in Tennessee and cancer deaths continue to move further away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy People 2020 goal, according to the 2012 Tennessee Men’s Health Report Card. Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt will use $10,000 from the NEA to study correlations between art-making and quality of life. Read More

International students at Vanderbilt are in need of friendship and support when they arrive. Help make their transition smooth by participating in First Friends through ISSS. (photo provided by ISSS) Each fall Vanderbilt welcomes students from around the world to our campus and community. This year, 360 international students… Read More

To reduce paper usage and data entry time, enrollment for direct deposit of paychecks is now on the C2HR website. To sign up for direct deposit: Have your bank name, bank transit number, bank account number, and account type on-hand. Have your… Read More

'Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems' has earned Austin Community College's annual Balcones Poetry Prize. Read More

A new statistical tool developed by Vanderbilt biostatisticians will help medical researchers make sense of a commonly encountered – but hard-to-analyze – type of data. Read More

A study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators has identified a gene expression pattern that may explain why chemotherapy prior to surgery isn’t effective against some tumors and suggests new therapy options for patients with specific subtypes of breast cancer. Read More

On Tuesday, June 5, Dyer Observatory trained its solar telescope onto the sun to observe the Venus transit. In addition to capturing this once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event for posterity, the telescope caught something else – something that the Dyer staff has yet to identify. Read More

The wind turbine stands next to the wind monitoring station (right) and frames are ready for solar panels on the hill atop Love Circle near campus. (Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) A collaborative wind-solar alternative energy project between Vanderbilt’s mechanical engineering department and Nashville Metro Water Services has picked up speed with… Read More

Visit the newly opened Honeysuckle Hill Farm Zip Line Tree Top Canopy Tours in Springfield, Tenn., and support Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. $1 from every regular-price Tree Top Canopy Tour sold in the 2012 season benefits Children’s Hospital. Read More