Month: February 2014

Team Music City, an interdisciplinary group from Vanderbilt, MTSU and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville, has been selected to compete in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon 2015, challenging students to design and build a functioning, energy-efficient, solar-powered house. Read More

Learn healthy ways to cope with stress in today’s fast-paced world at a Pressure Relief Network class hosted by Health Plus on Feb. 26. Read More

Learn about heart-healthy food choices, try tasty samples and take home a recipe. Read More

Dalih Suchet from Whitehall Benefits will discuss long-term care insurance, during a lunch and learn, Wednesday, Feb. 19. Read More

Physical inactivity is a risk factor for heart disease. Read More

Registration is now open for Sarratt Youth Art Institute Summer 2014. Read More

Vanderbilt's LGBTQI Life in collaboration with the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center will host a screening of Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. The movie will be followed by a discussion. Read More

Soldiers in Afghanistan are experimenting with smartphones engineered to better protect operational data designed by scientists at Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Douglas Schmidt, professor of computer science, is quoted. Read More

Some scholars still believe that romantic love was invented by European troubadours in the Middle Ages, and that people outside of the western tradition don’t really experience it. Ted Fischer, professor of anthropology, decided to test that theory. The verdict? Everybody loves. Read More

John Gass, BE’74, former vice president of Chevron Corporation and former president of Chevron Gas and Midstream, has been appointed to the board of directors of Suncor Energy, Canada’s leading integrated energy company. Read More

With Valentine’s Day just one day away, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute cardiologist Julie Damp, M.D., says being involved in a healthy, loving relationship is good for the heart. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received an 18-month, $6.9 million award to set up a Clinical Data Research Network (CDRN) that can reach millions of patients and speed the translation of research findings into clinical practice. Read More

Health care service and access are at the crux of new Vanderbilt University Medical Center leadership appointments. Read More

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and GenomOncology have announced an agreement for the exclusive commercial development of a decision support tool based on My Cancer Genome, an online precision cancer medicine knowledge resource for physicians, patients, caregivers and researchers. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Richard Ho, M.D., MSCI, has received a presidential honor for his innovative studies of mechanisms by which drug transporter proteins mediate the absorption, distribution and elimination of chemotherapeutic agents. Read More

Russ Altman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Bioengineering, Genetics and Medicine at Stanford University, posed an intriguing question at last week’s Discovery Lecture: is it possible to predict drug side effects from the 3D-structure of proteins? Read More

Neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., renowned for his development of tools that allow scientists to control and map brain circuits, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 22. Read More

Jenny Slayton, R.N., MSN, has been appointed to the newly created role of executive director of Quality Improvement for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More

Rene Love, DNP, MSN, has been named director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She succeeds Susie Adams, Ph.D., R.N., who was recently named Nursing Faculty Scholar for Community Engaged Behavioral Health at VUSN. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Warren Sandberg, M.D., Ph.D., and Alissa Weaver, M.D., Ph.D., have been appointed to three-year terms on the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Council of Faculty and Academic Societies. Warren Sandberg, M.D., Ph.D. The council is charged with identifying and communicating critical issues faced by… Read More