Month: May 2015
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Men’s golf advances to NCAA Championship play
The fifth-ranked Commodore men's golf team is advancing to the NCAA Championship for the second consecutive season and the fifth time in program history. The championship will take place May 29-June 3 in Bradenton, Florida. Read MoreMay 19, 2015
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Mindfulness-based stress reduction available at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Vanderbilt’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is offering training sessions on mindfulness-based stress reduction. Read MoreMay 19, 2015
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Middle school students part of Nashville’s ‘living public history’
A sixth-grade class from Meigs Academic Magnet Middle School recently spent a day with Peabody researchers at the Nashville Public Library participating in an instructional program developed at Vanderbilt called “Telling, Mapping and Listening to Nashville: Public History and Geography of the New South.” Read MoreMay 19, 2015
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Fidelity offers ongoing services to employees; first program is EasyEnroll
Fidelity will soon introduce a program called “EasyEnroll” to Vanderbilt employees who are not currently making voluntary contributions to the plan and do not have future voluntary elections recorded. Read MoreMay 19, 2015
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Rising senior named Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow
Maritza Navarrete is one of 10 undergraduates from across the country named as a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow for 2015. Pickering fellows typically go on to represent the United States as Foreign Service officers. Read MoreMay 19, 2015
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New study takes hard look at National Council on Teacher Quality’s ratings of teacher prep programs
A new study found that teacher prep programs with higher NCTQ ratings do not necessarily produce graduates who are more effective at raising student test scores. Read MoreMay 19, 2015
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High-performance computing topic of two-day event
XSEDE, a large NSF-founded organization specializing in high-performance computing, is hosting a free outreach event at Vanderbilt June 10-11. XSEDE staff will provide an overview of and training on research computing tools and resources. Read MoreMay 18, 2015
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Women’s tennis advances to NCAA Final Four
For the third time this season, the Vanderbilt women's tennis team defeated the Florida Gators, earning a trip to the NCAA Final Four for the first time in more than a decade. Read MoreMay 18, 2015
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Tools for exploring ‘omics’ data
The NetGestalt computing portal integrates vast amounts of data to aid users in finding biologically and clinically relevant information. Read MoreMay 18, 2015
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Our favorite #vandygram photos of the week
Judging from the photos shared on Twitter and Instagram, the Vanderbilt community is still on a Commencement high. Take a look at some of our favorite images from the past week. Read MoreMay 15, 2015
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff and student awards, appointments and achievements
Read the latest faculty, staff and student awards, appointments and achievements. Read MoreMay 15, 2015
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VU lands $9 million NIH grant to design better flu vaccines
Vanderbilt University researchers have received a five-year, $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design more effective flu vaccines and novel antibody therapies. Read MoreMay 15, 2015
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Boosting cell-based heart repair
A metabolic change in adult stem cells makes them less “fit” for regenerative heart therapies, suggesting that strategies to prevent this response may boost the therapeutic usefulness of the cells. Read MoreMay 15, 2015
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Lilly Endowment funds VU Divinity program on preaching quality
A new two-year program will train preaching coaches to help ministers improve their communication skills. Read MoreMay 14, 2015
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Win prizes with ‘Know Your Numbers’ May 18-22 for National Employee Health and Fitness Day
Join Vanderbilt in celebrating National Employee Health & Fitness Day. Read MoreMay 14, 2015
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Wellcast: ‘Engaging in difficult conversations’
Stephanie Dean with Work-Life Connections speaks about the risks and benefits of engaging in difficult conversations. Read MoreMay 14, 2015
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Peabody professors honored for education research
Peabody College professors Rogers Hall and Ebony McGee were honored by the American Educational Research Association on April 17. Read MoreMay 14, 2015
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School of Medicine graduates embrace future challenges
Bonnie Miller, M.D., senior associate dean for Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, offered some sound advice to the class of 2015 during last week’s commencement ceremony. Read MoreMay 14, 2015
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VUSN graduates ready to be positive force in health care
Linda Norman, DSN, R.N., Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing and dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, told graduates during Vanderbilt’s Commencement and Investiture ceremonies last week that “nursing today is as influential as when Florence Nightingale defined and organized nursing in the United Kingdom in the 1800s. We are one of the most essential elements in health care delivery today and are being recognized for it.” Read MoreMay 14, 2015
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Supportive environment spurs Biomedical Sciences graduates
“It takes a village to raise a scientist.” That’s how Shenika Poindexter describes Vanderbilt University’s approach to graduate training in the biomedical sciences. Read MoreMay 14, 2015