Month: January 2015

Weight Watchers at Work is starting a new session for the new year on Wednesday, Jan. 14. Read More

Autism Tennessee’s parent representatives respond to an average of 3,000 requests for resources and support each year. Staff and researchers wanted to quantify how this support was enriching people’s lives. They will report their findings at a community breakfast on Jan. 9. Read More

The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center is kicking off 2015 with several new fitness initiatives. Read More

Meg Bryson Pirkle, BE’89, is the first female chief engineer for Georgia’s transportation department. In the following Q&A, she explains her role in implementing a task force’s recommendations after the January 2014 Atlanta “Snowpocalypse,” her time at Vanderbilt, and being a woman in a male-dominated profession. Read More

Vanderbilt staff and faculty are eligible for a discount on tickets to select performances of the following upcoming shows at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Read More

GQ calls it “Nowville.” Time magazine has dubbed it “The South’s Red-Hot Town.” Indeed, these are heady times for Vanderbilt’s hometown, now one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities. The signs of ambitious new building projects are everywhere. In October the think tank City Observatory released a report identifying Nashville as second only to… Read More

A low-lying island in Southwest Bangladesh provides a dramatic foretaste of the impact facing 10 percent of the world's population in terms of global sea level rise due to unforeseen consequences of last century's flood control efforts, according to a new Vanderbilt interdisciplinary study. Read More

Vanderbilt University researcher William Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues in Germany and Canada have demonstrated a method for detecting “cell-free” tumor DNA in the bloodstream. Read More

Catalina Lizarralde—“Cata” to her friends—seems to operate at the accelerated pace of time-lapse photography. Or at least that’s how it can appear to those who, like Dean Eric Johnson, describe her as a powerhouse of energy and innovation. Read More

To ensure that Vanderbilt faculty and staff receive the best IT support possible, Vanderbilt IT wants to make the community aware of how to access the designated support teams for the university and Medical Center. Read More

Vanderbilt research landed on several 'Education Week' year-end lists for 2014. Read More

Klint Alexander, senior lecturer in political science and law, writes the re-election of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be one of the most important developments in U.S.-Japan relations since the end of the Second World War. Read More

Belmont University has named music industry veteran Doug Howard, EMBA’85, dean of the Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, effective Jan. 1. The founder of Vandermont Music Group and former senior vice president of A&R for Lyric Street Records/Walt Disney Co., he will oversee 75 faculty and nearly 2,000… Read More

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., recipient of a 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 8. Read More

The most recent Credo Award and Five Pillar Leader Award winners were announced at the Winter Clinical Enterprise Leadership Assembly at Langford Auditorium. Read More

The exhibit highlights the American Abstract Artists group, which was founded at a time when abstract art was not met with great acclaim. Read More

Learn about important considerations and options for quality child care on Jan. 15 at noon. Read More

This time of year, we often take stock of where we are, where we’ve been and where we want to be. Read More

If you are enrolled in supplemental life insurance through Vanderbilt, or are benefits-eligible and have Vanderbilt-paid basic life insurance coverage, you can take advantage of free will preparation services. Read More