Year: 2014

Taking care of loved ones as can be stressful and can actually be harmful to the caregiver’s own health. Read More

The 2014 recipient of the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award is David Krenz of Spring Hill, Tenn. Read More

Plant Operations University is a six-week, 12-hour overview of how Vanderbilt works—literally. Read More

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded filmmaker Mark Kendall, BA’05, MA’08, a Guggenheim Fellowship. According to the foundation, Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. He was awarded the fellowship to develop his next project, which… Read More

Lillian Hallstrand and Niger Amin Woodruff have joined Vanderbilt Divinity School in new positions to provide increased guidance to current as well as prospective students. Read More

With Earth-friendly Move Out for students occurring April 22–May 10, an increased number of donation and recycling locations that faculty and staff may also use will be available on campus. Learn how to share your Earth Day conservation efforts by reading more in the "Take Note" section. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Sustainability and Environmental Management Office celebrated Earth Day a little early by organizing a “No Impact Week” April 14-18 on campus. Read More

John Geer, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science, has been recognized for his significant contributions to educational programming as a speaker for Vanderbilt Reunion and other alumni events. Read More

If you want to be perceived as a leader, new research from Vanderbilt University suggests investing in the latest technological gadgets is the way to go. Read More

Jamie Pope, registered dietitian, talks about what a healthy diet should look like.
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More than 100 sixth graders from Wright Middle School met the Vanderbilt graduate student pen pals with whom they have been corresponding and were treated to a tour of Vanderbilt University Medical Center facilities on April 16. Read More

The Healthier Tennessee initiative is offering free, online “Small Starts” tools to help you make small changes that can add up to big improvements in your health. Read More

Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D., professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology and Donna S. Hall Professor of Breast Cancer Research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), assumed the presidency of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) for 2014-2015 during the group’s annual meeting last week in San Diego. Read More

In 2008, Vanderbilt nurses participated in a nationwide survey to determine how they spent their time, and it revealed that only 16 percent was spent on direct patient care, while 28 percent was spent on documentation. Read More

A strategy for commercializing an optical 3-D scanner that can ensure all cancerous breast tissue is removed during surgery, thereby avoiding the need for a second operation, has won top honors at this year’s TechVenture Challenge. Read More

Vanderbilt LifeFlight is applauding new rules issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that will have a dramatic impact for all air ambulance operators and make the industry much safer. Read More

Maria Rahmandar, M.D., a third-year resident in the Department of Pediatrics, recently received the 2014 Career Development Award in Adolescent Health from the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Read More

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Vanderbilt Department of Otolaryngology will hold the annual head and neck cancer screening event Friday, April 25, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. The screenings are free, open to the public and require no appointment. Read More

When Eddie Dotson arrived at Vanderbilt University Medical Center last September, he weighed 627 pounds and truly embodied the label “morbidly obese.” He had so much fluid in his chest it was hard to breathe and his heart, liver and kidneys were failing. Read More

Depression affects more than one out of three survivors of critical illness, according to a Vanderbilt study released in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, and the majority of patients experience their symptoms physically rather than mentally. Read More