Year: 2013

Muhammad Yunus, Phd‘71, and the 1996 Vanderbilt Distinguished Alumnus, was an inspiring keynote speaker during the fifth annual Global Social Business Summit. After Vanderbilt, Yunus began his active work to fight poverty in Bangladesh by issuing microcredit loans to the poor, eventually creating the Grameen Bank. Yunus and the bank… Read More

On Jan. 1, 2014, hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans will become eligible for federally subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a campaign to increase patient awareness about the ACA and help patients enroll in subsidized insurance plans. Read More

Vanderbilt graduate student Megan Capozzi has been named the Member-In-Training Board of Trustee to the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Read More

VUMC was one of several area hospitals and federal, state and local agencies participating in in last week’s 2013 Regional Hospitals Fall Severe Weather Exercise. Read More

John F. Brock III, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, his wife, Mary, and their three children have established an endowment to support an oncology fellowship at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The Brock Family Fellowship will provide financial assistance long into the future for young physicians, postdoctoral students and medical investigators who are furthering their training in cancer research. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center staff and faculty are preparing for a new health care landscape, one shaped by a lowered payment regime, greater outside scrutiny of health care quality, new rewards and penalties for hospital and provider safety and quality, and the transfer of financial risk for health outcomes from payers to newly affiliated hospitals and providers. Read More

Women with chronic autoimmune diseases who take immunosuppressive medications during their first trimester of pregnancy are not putting their babies at significantly increased risk of adverse outcomes, according to a Vanderbilt study released online by the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism. Read More

As never before, large employers and regional health care providers have opportunity — and incentive — to work together to tame unsustainable health benefit cost inflation while improving health and health care outcomes. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate for the Mary Kay Foundation Translational Cancer Research Grant program for 2014. These awards provide $100,000 over two years for investigators involved in translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast or cervical cancer. The Mary Kay Foundation seeks to fund innovative research that will provide… Read More

A small fire in an air handler at the Stevenson Center’s Mathematics Building has cancelled math classes for the remainder of today, Nov. 13. Vanderbilt Plant Operations is on site to handle this issue with the building’s ventilation system. There are no injuries, but the incident has resulted in… Read More

Vanderbilt's Campus Rec Center gets national recognition; Vanderbilt-themed weddings are all the rage; and the VU community shares their snapshots. See what's trending on QuickVU -- watch now! Read More

Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development made its way into an episode of Jeopardy! airing Tuesday, Nov. 12. Read More

Bright-colored products and brands do more than just draw attention. They allow people to signal a personal identity that aligns them with elite athletes, explains Vanderbilt marketing professor Jennifer Escalas. Read More

Please take a few minutes to participate in the Vanderbilt Staff Community Survey and give us your opinion about what it’s like to work at Vanderbilt. Read More

A temporary art installation on the Vanderbilt campus is designed to raise awareness and funds to combat homelessness. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have used bioinformatics analysis of gene expression data to describe molecular “circuits” that drive ovarian cancer. Read More

(Vanderbilt University) The Medical Center Staff Advisory Council, the University Staff Advisory Council and the Vanderbilt Ticket Office invite you to come out and support the Commodore football team on Saturday, Nov. 16, in its game with Kentucky at Vanderbilt Stadium. Kickoff is at 11:20 a.m. Stop by the… Read More

The Station B post office in Rand Hall. (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt’s Station B post office is ready to assist with your holiday shipping and mailing needs. Station B has holiday stamps including “Holy Family,” “Poinsettia” and “Virgin and Child.” The shipping deadlines for delivery of… Read More

Law school faculties are not changing with the times, and a Vanderbilt Law School professor says it may be time to look at hiring practices. Read More

The iPad you use to check email, watch episodes of "Mad Men" and play Words with Friends may hold the key to enabling children with autism to express themselves through speech. Read More