Year: 2014

Six Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty and staff were honored by the Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) at last week’s annual meeting in Nashville. Read More

For singers who suddenly can’t hit their high notes or call center workers who develop pain while speaking, physical therapy may offer new treatment solutions. Read More

Douglas Hanto, M.D., Ph.D., has his sights on Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. No stranger to building nationally recognized liver transplant programs — he has three under his belt — the new associate director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center aims to work with the departments of Pediatrics and Surgery to develop a comprehensive pediatric liver center at Children’s Hospital. Read More

In an effort to protect both employees and patients at Vanderbilt University Medical Center from potential harm, the Medical Center is revising its influenza vaccination plan and mandating the influenza vaccine for all VUMC employees. Read More

People who earn their undergraduate degree from a less prestigious university and a graduate degree from an elite university earn much less than those who attend both an elite undergraduate and graduate school. And it is unlikely their salary will ever catch up. Read More

A Nov. 18 panel will discuss how to create more inclusive communities and spaces for trans graduate and professional students at Vanderbilt. Read More

Students Promoting Environmental Awareness and Responsibility has been named winner of the 2014 football sustainability competition and can boast the title “greenest group on campus.” Read More

Jules White's new wayfinder app for iPhone and Android will provide photo-based, step-by-step directions for navigating Nashville's 1.2 million-square-foot, 16-acre Music City Center. Read More

Vanderbilt experts from a variety of fields are available to help explain issues surrounding Nashville's transformation into the latest “it” city. Read More

Centennial Professor Alexander Ol’shanskii has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Read More

Two lucky classes--on the Vietnam War and political biography--will get instruction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss in the spring. Read More

A new mouse model offers insight into the signaling pathways that control oral cancers – and a platform for testing anticancer therapeutics. Read More

An interactive reproduction of a prominent mural by Latin American artist Oswaldo Guayasamín will be on display at the Sarratt Center Nov. 14-Dec. 14 and then at The Commons Center Jan. 5-30. Read More

Venture capitalist and Jumpstart Foundry CEO Vic Gatto delivers the inaugural lecture — “Entrepreneurs: Heroes of our Generation” — in the School of Engineering’s newly created Chambers Family Entrepreneurial Lectureship, endowed by Jason Chambers, engineering alumnus and member of the school’s Board of Visitors. Read More

Lose the stress of holiday weight gain by participating in the Hold the Stuffing challenge. Last year, about 1,100 Vanderbilt faculty and staff members participated and as a group lost a total of 562 pounds. Read More

On Tuesday, Nov. 11, at approximately 9:50 a.m., a professor returned to her office in the Stevenson Center and saw two men. The men had loaded her computer into a backpack, and when they noticed her, they fled. Read More

The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center will host a “Stress and the Working Caregiver” workshop as part of its Boomers, Elders and More series on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from noon to 1 p.m. in Light Hall, Room 439. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators have used a computational biology approach to uncover new cancer drivers and biomarkers of anticancer drug response. Read More

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, Nov. 18, from noon to 1 p.m. for the November DigitalVU meeting. This month’s session will focus on web and social analytics. Read More

Last weekend, hackers launched a significant phishing attack against Vanderbilt email users. Read More