Year: 2014

This semester Vanderbilt University School of Medicine introduced a new Evening Elective Program designed for medical and nursing students, residents and fellows with the goal of developing well-rounded health care professionals. Read More

Vanderbilt LifeFlight is helping the country of Guyana implement its first emergency medical services (EMS) system. Read More

Julie Ozier, MHL, has been named director of Vanderbilt’s Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) and Institutional Review Board (IRB). Ozier has worked with the HRPP and IRB for 11 years, has been associate director since 2007, and at Vanderbilt since 1996. Read More

The Vanderbilt Anesthesiology and Perioperative Informatics Research (VAPIR) Division was recently established to extract and analyze data from Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s archive of de-identified perioperative patient data comprising more than 729,000 completed surgical cases to help improve patient safety and quality of care. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is conducting a study to learn more about the lower rates of autism among Hispanic children. Read More

International Student and Scholar Services invites you to World on Wednesdays, where members of the Vanderbilt community engage in lectures, presentations and conversations about global issues. The next WOW topic is “Service Learning Opportunities in Latin America,” to be presented by the Center for Latin American Studies. Read More

Obesity causes peripheral immune cells to move to the brain, where they may contribute to inflammation and the pathophysiology of obesity. Read More

International Student and Scholar Services is planning EAT! events for March 16 and April 13. EAT! is a free program that provides international students and scholars a chance to enjoy American food and culture with a local family. Students and scholars attend the dinners in small groups of two… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has named a committee including a Board of Trust member, two top administrators and a number of faculty members who will search for the next Vanderbilt University provost. Read More

A former Vanderbilt student dreamed of using business and economics to help the poorest people in the world help themselves. That student was micro-loan pioneer and nobel-prize winner Muhammad Yunus. Now another Vandy student is following this dream, as Amy Wolf reports. [vucastblurb]… Read More

The February Safe Zone workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 25, from 5 to 8 p.m. in Sarratt Student Center, Room 189. Safe Zone workshops are open to all Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff as well as members of the Nashville community. Register here. The Safe Zone program… Read More

Rear Adm. Timothy White, deputy director of tailored access operations at the National Security Agency, will give a free public lecture on the activities of the NSA Thursday, Feb. 27, at 3 p.m. in Stevenson Center Room 4327. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Program in Latino and Latina Studies will host its inaugural symposium, "Looking Out, Looking In: Latina/o Poetry," on Thursday, Feb. 13. Read More

The UK audio science fiction magazine Starship Sofa has published a podcast of "Descartes' Stepchildren," a short story by Robert Scherrer, professor and chair of the Vanderbilt's department of physics and astronomy. Read More

When an Aztec child was born, soothsayers would consult the birth almanacs contained in codices to determine the most auspicious date to initiate the child into the Aztec community. Read More

A talk by engineering alumna Kimberly Bryant, founder and executive director of Black Girls CODE, will be the highlight of Vanderbilt events celebrating National Engineers Week Feb. 16-22. Read More

Vanderbilt researcher Jonathan Metzl has coined the term "structural competency" as a starting point for doctors to realize how medical problems are often downstream results of upstream societal decisions. Read More

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Variation in the gene for the beta-1 adrenergic receptor increases the risk that a patient will have an abnormal heart rhythm after cardiac surgery. Read More

YP, the largest local search and advertising company in the U.S., announced that Allison Checchi, BS’99, has been appointed chief marketing officer. In this role, Checchi will be responsible for leading YP’s marketing, advertising, branding and communications efforts to improve the way the company connects consumers with local businesses. Read More