Month: October 2013

Please join in celebrating the life of Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences and a professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, on Monday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m., in Benton Chapel. Read More

James Auer, director of the Center for U.S.-Japan Studies at Vanderbilt, was honored by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during an Oct. 12 meeting in Tokyo. Read More

Open Enrollment is happening now and all benefits-eligible employees should enroll. Read More

The Game Plan for Your Health video will be showing at the Sarratt Cinema on the half-hour on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Read More

Hear a podcast in recognition of International Infection Prevention Week. Read More

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Owen Graduate School of Management Professor Bob Whaley guarantees that an increasingly popular investment product that tracks the volatility of financial markets will lose money over the long term. Read More

A sociologist from California will speak Oct. 25 at the law school about race in the workplace. Read More

Michael Miga, professor of biomedical engineering, will serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Imaging, a new publication of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Read More

A fungus that is killing frogs and other amphibians around the world releases a toxic factor that disables the amphibian immune response, Vanderbilt University investigators report Oct. 18 in the journal Science. Read More

Alumni of Japan’s Kwansei Gakuin University and its chancellor, Ruth Grubel, toured the Vanderbilt campus Oct. 4. Read More

The 2013 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science has been awarded to Laurie Glimcher, M.D., Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Read More

Alan Wiseman's research shows that women lawmakers, particularly ones in the minority party, are more effective than their male counterparts when it comes to negotiating and getting things done--as they did to end the government shutdown. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has joined a national network funded by the National Institutes of Health to streamline multi-site clinical trials focused on key interventions in stroke prevention, treatment and recovery. Read More

It's all about the patient. That's the message Talmadge King Jr., M.D., the Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), shared with students, physicians, administrators and researchers during Wednesday’s Levi Watkins Jr., M.D., Lecture on Diversity in Medical Education. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s plan for an automated system that would include a daily charge for patient and visitor parking on the Medical Center’s 21st Avenue campus, in the Central, East and South Garages, remains under consideration but the launch date for the new system is being postponed. Read More

Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellow Annabelle de St. Maurice, M.D., has been awarded a grant to determine the relationship between pneumococcal vaccination and the emergence of certain strains of pneumococcal bacteria not covered by vaccines. Read More

The crowds turned out for Sunday’s We Care for Kids Day, hosted by the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and its community partners. Read More

A research team led by Josh Peterson, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, and John Graves, Ph.D., assistant professor of Preventive Medicine, will study the cost-effectiveness of testing patients’ risk of adverse gene-drug interactions. Read More

The British Medical Association (BMA) recently honored the 13th edition of “Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy” with its Illustrated Book Award for 2013. Read More