Month: April 2015

New research by Katharine Donato and Blake Sisk examines why children make the difficult journey north. Read More

Siradji Mahamane, a 2014-15 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow from Niger, will discuss and answer questions about his home country on Wednesday, April 22, at the next World on Wednesdays gathering. Read More

New findings suggest that it might be possible to treat diabetes by regenerating insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Read More

Vanderbilt's Shaul Kelner has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund his multifaceted research into the Soviet Jewry movement. Read More

The evolutionary history of whales, sea turtles and other land animals that have returned to the sea details the radical changes to their life style, body shape, physiology that they made to survive in an aquatic environment. Read More

With the school year coming to a close, students were feeling sentimental on social media this week and shared their photos using #vandygram. Read More

Vanderbilt employees may take advantage of discounted tickets for the Nashville Venom arena football team's next two home games Read More

Vanderbilt’s retirement plan transition is nearly complete. Soon you’ll also be able to view your transferred balance and adjust those investments, too. Read More

Join us Thursday, April 23, for the next Musician’s Night at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center. Eli Teplin, a classically trained pianist who specializes in catchy verses and choruses with monster hooks, will perform beginning at 7 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt's Gretchen Purcell-Jackson spoke to more than 80 WiTT members and guests on patient portals and their increasing importance in health care at the group's March 31 meeting held at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks. Read More

Peabody professors contributed to new book that explores the behavioral, neurobiological, and genetic components of reading comprehension. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are blazing new trails in language and learning programs designed to ensure children with Down syndrome have the brightest possible futures. Read More

Stuffed animals that pediatric patients bring to the operating room are a reservoir of bacteria that can be effectively sterilized in a household washer/dryer the day before surgery. Read More

TGF-beta signaling in the kidney was thought to be a target for reducing renal fibrosis, but Vanderbilt researchers report that fibrosis still occurs in the absence of TGF-beta signaling. Read More

Vanderbilt may nominate one candidate for the W.M. Keck Foundation Medical Research Program and one for the Science and Engineering Program for 2015. Read More

The newest member of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust is Alexander C. Taylor, an executive with Cox Enterprises. Read More

Vanderbilt's Aerospace Club continued its winning ways at this year's NASA Student Launch Competition held April 11 near Huntsville, Alabama. Read More

Members of Vanderbilt's cohort of Humphrey Fellows attended the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program’s 28th annual meeting at Emory University in Atlanta. Read More

Seth Karp, M.D., professor of Surgery and Ingram Professor of Surgical Sciences, has been named the new chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Surgery. Read More

A new study led by Vanderbilt University investigators found that patients being treated with statins at the time of surgery for kidney cancer, also known as renal cell carcinoma, had improved overall survival and disease-specific survival. Read More