Month: January 2015

The Vanderbilt community shared some great images this week, like this photobombing turkey at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory: Photo by Billy Teets Share your photos with us on social media by tagging them #vandygram. See more of our favorite photos from this week. Read More

Read the latest roundup of Vanderbilt faculty awards and achievements. Read More

The general public is invited to three Saturday University sessions this spring focused on poetry. Read More

Heidi Hamm, a world leader in G protein signaling, is the recipient of the 2015 Robert R. Ruffolo Career Achievement Award in Pharmacology. Read More

A new two-year Vanderbilt study seeks to better understand students’ potential aversion to borrowing for college. Read More

Watch video of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s winter term on January 15th, “Ancient Civilizations of the Americas”, Anna Guengerich, Ph.D., Anthropology. Read More

Watch video of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s winter term on January 15th, “Ancient Civilizations of the Americas” by Anna Guengerich, Ph.D., Anthropology. Read More

The Vanderbilt Woman’s Club invites the Vanderbilt and Nashville communities to the ninth annual ScholarSips, a wine tasting and silent auction benefiting Vanderbilt students. Read More

According to annual figures available through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) continues to be ranked among the top 10 in the nation among U.S. medical schools in total grant support provided through the nation’s medical research agency. Read More

Vanderbilt's Heidi Hamm, Ph.D., and L. Jackson Roberts II, M.D., have been lauded by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). Read More

John Allison, Ph.D., Linda Horton and Elizabeth Roof are the recipients of the 2014 Research Staff Awards at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More

Pam Jones, DNP, MSN, R.N., has transitioned from chief nursing officer for Vanderbilt University Hospital to her new role as senior associate dean for Clinical and Community Partnerships at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN). Read More

On Jan. 9, the Magnet Education Committee officially launched its efforts to help the Medical Center once again obtain Magnet recognition, the highest honor for nursing. Read More

James Forman Jr., a clinical professor of Law and supervising attorney at Yale Law School, is scheduled to deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Monday, Jan. 19. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Mark E. Frisse, M.D., M.S., MBA, a leader in the application of informatics to improve health care delivery, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 22. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy (CPPA) has announced a partnership with the Cognitive Institute, an international health care education provider based in Australia. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Linda Norman, DSN, R.N., left, poses with Alexa Clay, a nurse-midwifery student, at VUSN’s recent Pinning Ceremony. Read More

Physicians with Vanderbilt’s Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics have started to employ a new, advanced technology that uses magnetically controlled growing rods to correct scoliosis in young children, reducing the need for frequent surgeries and anesthesia in these patients. Read More

Tennessee must improve the health of its citizens if it wants to offer an attractive workforce to businesses, Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos said during a Nashville Community Health Forum attended by state legislators and other stakeholders. Read More

Two leading cancer organizations are calling for regulation of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). Read More