Year: 2013

"Sanford (Ghettobird)," 2012, digital c-print. Photograph by Barron Claiborne. Vanderbilt University and StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series will welcome acclaimed multimedia artist Sanford Biggers on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Biggers will discuss his work beginning at 7 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Room 126. The lecture is free and open… Read More

Vanderbilt faculty and staff get a special discount to select performances of this stylish reimagining of a holiday classic. Read More

Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can duplicate the natural movement of human legs which promises to dramatically improve the mobility of lower-limb amputees. Read More

Trans@VU is a web resource for trans*, gender-variant and gender-questioning people and their allies at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Rachel Heitmann, program director at the Tennessee Department of Health, talks about SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Read More

The Safe Zone workshop is a three-hour interactive workshop that encourages student, faculty and staff to explore their personal identities, cultural identities, privilege and what it means to be an Ally. Read More

Watch video of the most recent presentation in the Food for Thought lunchtime series ­”Reflections of the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville: Then and Now,” which took place on November 5. In partnership with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Vanderbilt University Office of Community, Neighborhood, and Government… Read More

High-quality preschool is an effective way to reduce social problems associated with poverty because it teaches children the psychological skills they need to succeed as adults, according to a Vanderbilt professor who studies the economics of human development. Read More

Tricking algae’s biological clock to remain in its daytime setting can dramatically boost the amount of commercially valuable compounds that these simple marine plants can produce when they are grown in constant light. Read More

Oftentimes, holding firm to core principles and values anchors us and assures long-term success during periods of rapid change. Read More

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Breast Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) has been awarded a third round of funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Read More

Award-winning scientist, author and educator Sean B. Carroll will illuminate the never-before-told account of the intersection of two of the most insightful minds of the 20th century during a Nov. 19 Chancellor’s Lecture at Vanderbilt. Read More

Susan H. Guttentag, M.D., is joining Vanderbilt University on Feb. 1, 2014, as the new director of the Division of Neonatology within the Department of Pediatrics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Lewis V. Baldwin, who has devoted much of his life to teaching and scholarship on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., delivered the Vanderbilt University Divinity School’s 2013 Harrod Lecture Nov. 7. Read more.  … Read More

The Vanderbilt Center for Women’s Health began serving patients at its new outpatient clinic at NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield this week. Read More

The first Community Research Day, sponsored by the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance and the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community-Engaged Research Core, was held Tuesday at the MetroCenter headquarters of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville. Read More

The Transition Management Office at Vanderbilt University Medical Center holds to the principle that every patient should know what will happen next in his or her care, when it will happen, who will be involved and what the costs will be. Read More

(photo by Joe Howell) Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, right, and Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., were among those who took part in last week’s Senior Leader Walk on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

Daniel Levy, M.D., director of the famed Framingham Heart Study, will deliver the seventh annual Meredith S. and John A. Oates Lecture in Clinical Pharmacology on Thursday, Nov. 14. Read More

The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic has received a nearly $40,000 grant for 2013-2014 from the Baptist Healing Trust (BHT) for its Pharmacy Support Program, which provides free or low-cost medications to people with HIV/AIDS. Read More