Year: 2014

Watch Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos congratulate the Commodores baseball team for making history as the first Vanderbilt baseball team to make it to the finals of the College World Series. For full coverage of the Commodores’ national championship, visit vucommodores.com [vucastblurb]… Read More

Vanderbilt IT is preparing to launch a survey to determine what video conferencing solutions are already in place across Vanderbilt and to identify needs for this service. Read More

Today is your last chance to make a contribution to the 2014 Faculty-Staff Campaign. Read More

Christopher Serkin of Vanderbilt Law School has the "startling" opinion that government entities should be held legally responsible if they fail to make laws protecting the rights of property owners. Read More

Vanderbilt Baseball will play for a national championship beginning tonight after defeating Texas 4-3 in a 10-inning winner-take-all game on Saturday. Read More

VUIT's Tech Hub, which offers walk-up technical support, is scheduled for additional pilot sessions this summer at the university and medical center. Read More

Medical Center Drive (Vanderbilt University) From 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 28, traffic on Medical Center Drive will be shifted over, with one northbound lane open from the south side of the adult Emergency Room ambulance bay parking to the north entrance of The Vanderbilt Clinic… Read More

A new study shows that cash incentives are a good way to retain highly effective teachers in low-performing schools. Read More

Vanderbilt employees should visit the Occupational Health Clinic before traveling internationally. Read More

Stress at work can lead to friction and strife, resulting in low office morale. Find out how to build a more civilized workplace. Read More

Take part in the "Fruits and Vegetables: More Matters" summer challenge.

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Vanderbilt's John McLean has received Agilent Technology's Thought Leader Award in recognition of his contributions to ion mobility mass spectrometry. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith and civil rights advocate John Seigenthaler will host a forum on the inequality of income in America. Read More

Leadership is as much art as science. Its components can be studied, but to see it in practice is to develop an appreciation for the intangibles that turn those components into success. In training not just executives but leaders, Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management has long provided both practical and… Read More

When it comes to his love for auto racing, Travis Geisler is always willing to go the extra mile—thousands of them, really, if one considers his college years. While at Vanderbilt he made the 1,200-mile round trip between Nashville and his hometown of Pittsburgh nearly every weekend just to compete… Read More

Francis Guess doesn’t shy from uncomfortable topics. The businessman, civil rights leader, philanthropist, public servant and community leader talks frankly about what it was like to be a Vietnam veteran assigned to work on the Army’s civil disturbance plans for his community, attending Vanderbilt in the 1970s when most students… Read More

The Children's Miracle Network team at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, including mascot Champ. The annual Children’s Miracle Network Hospital Telethon raised more than $2 million on June 1. All proceeds benefit the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, the local Children’s Miracle Network… Read More

Heidi Hamm, Ph.D. In their introductions of Heidi Hamm, Ph.D., prior to her Flexner Discovery Lecture last week, Susan Wente, Ph.D., and P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., recounted how early encounters with her influenced their careers. For Wente, associate vice chancellor for… Read More

A new telemedicine partnership between Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Williamson Medical Center (WMC) is allowing more patients with acute neurological conditions to stay in their community. Eight VUMC neurologists are on call 24 hours a day to provide remote consultations for patients at WMC with urgent neurological conditions,… Read More

A new study suggests that lowering the dose of radiation therapy for some head and neck cancer patients may improve outcomes and cause fewer long-term side effects. Read More