Year: 2014

(Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) Minutes from the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate’s March 13 meeting are now available online on the Faculty Senate website. (Meeting minutes are published approximately one month after the senate convenes.) At the March 13 meeting, Vice Chancellor for Finance Brett Sweet gave a report on… Read More

Do you get everyday or social "jet lag?" Identifying your Chronotype can help in picking the best sleep schedule for you. Read More

Four Vanderbilt University students have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships by the U.S. Department of State to study critical-needs languages abroad during the summer of 2014. Read More

The Vanderbilt community can get a discount on select performances of "War Horse" at TPAC. Read More

Learn the basics of postpartum care of the mother, including what to expect, ways to prepare and recommendations for managing at home. Read More

KISS singer/ guitarist Paul Stanley will sign copies of his autobiography at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt. Read More

Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman (Steve Green, Vanderbilt) Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Cairo Geniza in his new book, The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2014), for a better understanding of daily life in the Medieval Islamic world. Read More

An installation by Vesna Pavlović, assistant professor of art at Vanderbilt, will open May 22 at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Read More

Check out these fun facts about Vanderbilt's 2014 Commencement. Read More

Marc Panu became a YouTube sensation after a video captured the three-year walk-on athlete receiving a football scholarship in 2012. The chemical and biomolecular engineering major’s hard work has distinguished him in the research lab as well. Read More

When Katie Walden came to Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, she believed a piano bench would always be in her future. But four years of learning and exploration have led her to a different kind of bench—a baseball bench. Read More

University Central faculty and staff are asked to make alternate parking plans on Friday, May 9, to make as many spaces available as possible for guests in areas closest to Commencement activities. Read More

Beginning in May, Vanderbilt University Medical Center patients who are owed refunds of $200 or less will receive prepaid debit cards by mail instead of paper checks. The switch to debit cards will give patients easier access to their refunds and an escape from check-cashing fees that banks may impose. Read More

(Vanderbilt University) Potentially “game-changing” research at Vanderbilt University on infectious diseases, population health and health policy will be showcased during two interactive presentations May 15 and May 22. A segment of the Flexner Discovery Lecture Series, the new “Vanderbilt Cutting-edge Discovery” discussions are highlights of recent presentations… Read More

David Chestnut, M.D. David Chestnut, M.D., has been named chief of Vanderbilt’s Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology. Chestnut comes to Vanderbilt from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where he served as professor of Anesthesiology and associate dean of the… Read More

Marilyn Dubree, M.S.N., R.N. The Vanderbilt University Medical Center State of Nursing Address by Marilyn Dubree, M.S.N., R.N., executive chief nursing officer, will take place on Thursday, May 8, at 10 a.m. in 208 Light Hall. All members of the VUMC community are invited to… Read More

Vanderbilt anesthesiologists who recently received board certification as neurointensivists include (from left) Nahel Saied, M.D., Roy Neeley, M.D., and Christopher Hughes, M.D. Not pictured are Nathan Ashby, M.D., John Barwise, M.D., Stuart McGrane, M.D., Tracy McGrane, M.D., and Sheena Weaver, M.D. (Photo by Steve Green) After eight… Read More

Alex Diamond, D.O., MPH Alex Diamond, D.O., MPH, has been elected to a three-year term on the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness. The 11-member Executive Committee is a panel of sports medicine experts tasked… Read More

Sarah Rohde, M.D., assistant professor of Otolaryngology, examines Steve Corbitt for signs of head and neck cancer. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Vanderbilt Department of Otolaryngology held the annual head and neck cancer screening event April 25. During the free and fast exams, physicians inspect the mouth… Read More

Michael Botticelli, right, acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, spent Monday afternoon at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, touring the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit led by Stephen Patrick, M.D., MPH, MS, assistant professor of Pediatrics. The… Read More