Year: 2014

Connie Vinita Dowell, Vanderbilt’s first dean of libraries, who worked tirelessly to expand the library system’s mission, modernize its facilities and services, and create a welcoming and engaging environment, will retire July 31. Read More

Sally Shaywitz, M.D., and Bennett Shaywitz, M.D., co-directors of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, April 17. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will hold its fifth annual Donate Life Flag-Raising Ceremony as part of national Donate Life month. The event celebrates organ donor families, living donors and hospital staff who care for donors and transplant recipients. Read More

The FTL Sarcoma Fund, in partnership with the T.J. Martell Foundation, recently presented a gift to the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in support of sarcoma research in memory of Warner Music Nashville colleague Lindsay Walleman. Read More

The next Bedside Matters, an hourlong, monthly rounds geared toward helping Vanderbilt University Medical Center health care providers deal with the social and emotional issues of caring for patients and families, will take place on Wednesday, April 16. Read More

Autopsies have revealed that some individuals develop the cellular changes indicative of Alzheimer’s disease without ever showing clinical symptoms in their lifetime. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have identified a potential new drug target in subtypes of lung cancer that are difficult to treat. Read More

Shari Barkin, M.D., MSHS, director of the Division of General Pediatrics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, has been elected to serve as vice president of the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR), with succession to the presidency in 2016. Read More

Saving for retirement is different than living in retirement. That’s why Human Resources and Fidelity Investments are offering “The Fundamentals of Retirement Income Planning,” a special seminar for Vanderbilt employees. Read More

The extracellular matrix that surrounds cells plays a role in the development of insulin resistance. Read More

On April 7, a major online security flaw known as "Heartbleed" was discovered. VUIT has determined that the majority of Vanderbilt systems are not affected by this flaw and is conducting a detailed assessment of those Vanderbilt sites and systems that might be affected now. Read More

Brain symmetry, woman warriors and malaria were among the research topics featured by the winners of the second annual Three Minute Thesis competition Read More

Vanderbilt's Sandra Rosenthal is a recipient of the 2014 SEC Faculty Achievement Award, which recognizes faculty members from every Southeastern Conference university who demonstrate outstanding records of teaching, research and scholarship. Read More

(image courtesy Outdoor Recreation Program) Linda Rosenkranz, assistant director of campus recreation, will discuss excursions available through Vanderbilt’s Outdoor Recreation program. The talk is scheduled for Thursday, April 17, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center’s demonstration kitchen area. Feel… Read More

Best-selling author James Patterson addressed a gathering of about 100 Nashville middle school students April 8, sharing with them his journey from childhood to successful writer. Read More

Coach Derek Mason (Vanderbilt University) You can win a football signed by head Vanderbilt football coach Derek Mason by doing one or all of the following: Add Vanderbilt Rwc on Facebook or follow @VandyRec on Twitter; Send us a picture of you working out;… Read More

Work is wrapping up on the effort to capture the 2013-14 academic year at Vanderbilt in the 2014 Commodore yearbook. Faculty and staff may purchase the yearbook at a reduced rate of $50 per copy. (The cost is usually $90 per copy.) To order a faculty or staff copy,… Read More

Firmat (Columbia University) Vanderbilt’s program in Latino and Latina Studies will welcome poet, memoirist and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat to campus on Friday, April 11. Firmat will give a short lecture and reading at 4 p.m. in Buttrick Hall, Room 102. Books will be available for purchase… Read More

On Thursday, April 10, the Office of the University Chaplain and Religious Life will offer a professional development opportunity in partnership with the Office of the Dean of Students titled “Transitioning into Adulthood: The Cultural Lives of Emerging Adults.” Patricia Snell Herzog, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and… Read More

Through a $5.5 million donation from San Francisco businessman Bernard Osher, Vanderbilt’s Center for Integrative Health will join the existing group of Osher Centers for Integrative Medicine and will now be known as the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt University. The Bernard Osher… Read More