Year: 2012

Spirit of Uganda With standing drums, dramatic choreography, layered rhythms and gorgeous call-and-response vocals, Spirit of Uganda brings to life the sounds and movements of East Africa. The group will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at Langford Auditorium as part of the Great… Read More

Daniel Federman Daniel D. Federman, the Carl W. Walter Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Medical Education
 at Harvard Medical School, will present 
“Curriculum Reform and Development at HMS: Lessons Learned” at noon Tuesday, Feb. 21, in 208 Light Hall. Federman’s talk is the 2012 Flexner Lecture in Medical Education… Read More

Three upcoming Children’s Miracle Network events will provide opportunities to support the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. (image courtesy of Children's Miracle Network) Stop by your local Fred’s department store from Feb. 20 to April… Read More

A suspect has been charged in connection with a Feb. 10 attack on a woman in the Terrace Place parking garage. He is also being questioned about incidents over the weekend in the East Garage and in two garages at Baptist Hospital. Tyrone Batts, 25, was arrested Feb. 12… Read More

In this Tennessean opinion piece, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Jeff Balser discusses the impact scientific research has in Tennessee and the critical importance of continued federal investment in this research. Read More

Daniel Sharfstein (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Daniel Sharfstein enjoys exploring the ways in which history and historical analysis can contribute to theoretical and doctrinal debates in property law. Sharfstein, an associate professor who teaches courses in property law and American legal history, wrote his most recent article, “Atrocity, Entitlement and… Read More

Robert Belton, who retired from a 34-year career as a professor at Vanderbilt Law School in 2009, died Feb. 9 after suffering a stroke. He was 76 years old. Read More

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s weekly newscast  highlighting  research, experts, students, sports and everything Vanderbilt: How the Louder Than a Bomb poetry slam changed a Vandy student’s life How the GOP can attract Latino voters … Read More

Although clichés are passé, omnia vincit amor – love conquers all – is highly appropriate in describing the longtime relationship between third-year Vanderbilt medical student Sarah Proffitt and her boyfriend, Amos Clark. Proffitt and Clark grew up in the small town of Athens in East Tennessee where almost everyone knows… Read More

Watch video of Marc Hetherington, professor of political science, speaking at the Osher Lifelong Learning class, “Politics in a Polarized Polity.” The Feb. 8 class, “Polarization and Congress,” focuses on the branch of government where polarization first took hold, tracing the evolution of the regional bases for the parties and… Read More

Vanderbilt University's Sustainability and Environmental Management Office offers seven ways to celebrate your beloved and be kind to the Earth as well. Read More

Watch video of Dr. Howard Kirshner speaking about stroke prevention. Kirshner spoke Feb. 8 as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning class, “Medical Advances.” The course is presented by faculty of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and focuses on what the future of medicine holds. Physicians are now able to use… Read More

A new study found that lower-calorie tube feedings do not reduce a patient’s ventilator use. Read More

Vanderbilt psychologist David Schlundt weighs in on the issue of whether or not cutting calories is bound to lead to binge eating and explains why we need to "personalize" our diets. Read More

As part of the administration’s ongoing efforts to incorporate new technologies, especially social media, into the execution of the university’s mission, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has organized the Committee on Social Media and the Internet. Vanderbilt faculty, researchers, physicians, students and staff comprise the year-long task force and are… Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Dave Perkins will debut the soundtrack for the new independent feature film Deadline on Feb. 3. The plot of Deadline, which premieres Feb. 15 in Nashville, is inspired by the true events of the unsolved murder of an African American teen in rural Alabama. Perkins, a… Read More

"Art of Painting" by Jan Vermeer Giles Knox, associate professor of history of art at Indiana University, will discuss “Paragone and the Hand of the Artist: Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer” at 4:10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in Cohen Memorial Hall, Room 203. His talk, which is free and… Read More

(Photo courtesy of Earth and Environmental Sciences/ Vanderbilt University) Earth and environmental sciences professor Molly Miller and Anne Choquette, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, will lead a one-mile walk through Percy Warner Park’s Mossy Ridge Trail beginning at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18. Mayor Karl Dean… Read More

Named one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009 by U.S. News & World Report, Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, will give a talk, “Acts of Faith: Interfaith Leadership in a Time of Global Religious Crisis,” Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University’s Langford Auditorium. Read More

The Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center (Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center is accepting nominations on behalf of faculty and staff who are making a difference in the lives of Vanderbilt students. The Mentoring Award is given annually to recognize achievements by and in support of women… Read More