Year: 2014

Joel Musee, M.D., Ph.D., a second-year resident in Vanderbilt’s Department of Anesthesiology, has been selected from a national pool of applicants to serve on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Review Committee for Anesthesiology. Read More

“Brain Blast,” a half day of free, hands-on activities for children and adults, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 1, at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks, 719 Thompson Lane. Read More

Richard Kim, M.D., former professor of Medicine and clinical pharmacologist at Vanderbilt, will deliver this year’s Grant R. Wilkinson Distinguished Lecture in Clinical Pharmacology at 8 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in 208 Light Hall. Read More

Muktar Aliyu, M.D., associate professor of Health Policy and Medicine, is receiving the William Kane Rising Star Award from the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) at its annual banquet on Saturday in New Orleans. Read More

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) is presenting John Newman, M.D., professor of Medicine, with its Outstanding Educator Award during the ATS 2014 International Conference in San Diego, May 16-21. Read More

Rebecca Cook, Ph.D., assistant professor of Cancer Biology, has spent her life trying to understand what makes things grow, from seedlings in soil to tumor cells in the body. Read More

At a recent Community Research Partners meeting hosted by the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core (CERC), Bruce Behringer MPH, deputy commissioner for Continuous Improvement and Training for the Tennessee Department of Health, spoke on the value of the ‘Give-Get Grid.’ Read More

As part of an ongoing review of emergency preparedness, Vanderbilt University has revised guidelines on how to respond to an active shooter situation on the campus. Read More

Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia Seeing Numerous Cases The lone star tick is widespread in the United States and is most common in wooded areas. (CDC Public Image Library) Lone star tick bites are likely the cause of thousands of cases of severe red… Read More

Fifteen incoming first-year students have been chosen as the newest members of the Ingram Scholarship program. The 15 are among 835 high school seniors who applied for the prestigious program. Read More

Eakin Elementary School students discovered that "play" translates into any language when international scholars from Vanderbilt introduced them to games from around the world. Read More

New head football coach Derek Mason is now officially part of the mural ‘wall of fame’ for Vanderbilt football, basketball and baseball coaches. Watch artist Michael Cooper work his magic for Mason. Read More

Watch John Geer and Susan Wente, executive committee co-chairs, discuss the importance of the Academic Strategic Planning process. [vucastblurb]… Read More

Dean Eric Johnson, center, stands with volunteers for the New York City Chapter: Ben Crane, BA’12, Alex Quintana, BA’05, MSF’06, Lisa Ganz, BA’13, Jamie Hooker, BA’12, Jena Acuff, BA’07 (Photo by Shia Levitt) Eighty-four Vanderbilt alumni and guests attended the Feb. 18 Tech Entrepreneurship Panel… Read More

A biography of singer-songwriter Sam Cooke will be the fourth book by Peter Guralnick to be declared “a classic in blues literature” by the Blues Hall of Fame. Read More

The Vanderbilt coaches mural on the corner of West End and 28th avenues has gotten a much-anticipated face-lift. Read More

Vanderbilt Recovery Support (VRS), a program of the Office of Wellness Programs and Alcohol Education in the Dean of Students Office, is featured in the latest issue of Recovery Campus magazine. VRS offers a support system on campus for students who are in recovery from… Read More

On Feb. 18 at 9:30 a.m., Vanderbilt University Police Department was notified by a staff member that an office suite in the Stevenson Center had been unlawfully entered and property had been taken. Read More

(photo courtesy of Health Plus) Carol Huber, a registered nurse and lactation consultant, will present “Breastfeeding – A Positive Choice” from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20 in Light Hall, Room 419. Health Plus offers Babies and You, a worksite prenatal health promotion program, to all Vanderbilt employees,… Read More

Black Girls CODE founder Kimberly Bryant is available on Thursday, Feb. 20, to discuss introducing girls of color to tech careers. Read More