Month: November 2013

Vanderbilt Heard Libraries' Bill Hook and Larry Reeves are among 26 fellows participating in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Fellows Program for 2013-15. Read More

Courtney H. Lyder (UCLA School of Nursing) Courtney H. Lyder, dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, will present “To Dream Again: Lessons From My Mentors” at noon Monday, Jan. 20, in 208 Light Hall. Lyder’s talk is in conjunction with Vanderbilt’s 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series… Read More

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award will be presented Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, to a faculty or staff member in the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, or Vanderbilt University Medical Center who emulates through his or her work the principles of… Read More

Vanderbilt becomes bowl eligible for the third year in a row—a first in Vanderbilt football history—with a win over Kentucky. Watch this VUCast Extra and get excited all over again. Go Dores!… Read More

New inventions should not have to be useful to merit a patent, says Vanderbilt professor Sean B. Seymore. Read More

L. Nelson Hopkins Neurosurgery innovator and pioneer L. Nelson Hopkins will present “Innovations in Vascular Care” at the second annual Vanderbilt Surgery and Engineering Symposium and Poster Session, scheduled for 4–7 p.m. Dec. 11 in Light Hall, Room 208. The event is hosted by the Vanderbilt Initiative… Read More

(Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) Most Vanderbilt schools are observing a break from classes Nov. 23-Dec. 1 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Residence halls close at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, and reopen at 9 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 1. Classes resume Monday, Dec. 2. Campus Dining locations and all Vanderbilt libraries will modify… Read More

The present housing crisis has disrupted the residential stability of families, which is adversely affecting many children’s educational development, according to researchers at Peabody College. Read More

Department of Human and Organizational Development Sarah VanHooser Suiter (Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 2009), associate professor of the practice of human and organizational development, previously with Centerstone Research Institute Allison Patten McGuire (Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 2005), lecturer in human and organizational development Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations Angela Boatman (Ed.D., Harvard, 2012)… Read More

In March, Peabody College was named the top graduate school of education in the country for the fifth consecutive year by U.S. & News World Report. Peabody bested programs at Johns Hopkins University (No. 2) and Harvard (No. 3) for the top spot, in addition to having its programs in… Read More

Keith Caldwell came to study at the Vanderbilt Divinity School because he wants to help reimagine a better version of this world. “People here are not just doing God talk,” Keith says. “They are pulling it down and putting it in action.” As a community organizer in… Read More

The AlertVU desktop alert program was recently expanded to include more than 6,300 clinical workstations at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More

Founded in 1998, the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt is a key national player in an effort to design the software-integrated systems that have become an integral part of human lives today – in consumer appliances, vehicles, planes, hospitals, schools, design shops, factories, space systems and energy. Read More

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As the people of the Philippines continue the long process of recovery from the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan, the Vanderbilt community is reaching out to those who may have been affected. Read More

An actor on screen, stage and television for more than 25 years, Danny Glover has also become known for his community activism and philanthropic work. He will headline Vanderbilt University’s MLK Day celebration Jan. 20. Read More

Jon Kaas is the 2014 recipient of the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience, which recognizes individuals whose research has had a revolutionary impact on the field. Read More

Sophomore Lina Granados has been invited by the Colombian Soccer Federation to be part of the U-20 Colombian Women’s National Team that will represent Colombia during the 2013 Bolivarian Games held in Peru this month. Read More

Seth Mailhot (courtesy Michael Best and Friedrich, LLP) Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization will host a special seminar, “When Does a Medical Software/App Become a Medical Device?: Practical Considerations and FDA Guidance,” from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.  Tuesday, Nov. 19, at Jacobs Believed in Me… Read More

The Vanderbilt Dayani Center is waiving its enrollment fee for Health Plus members who join during the months of January and February. Read More