Month: July 2015

Throughout her young career, Vanderbilt's Simone Charley has proven herself to be the quintessential clutch performer. During the NCAA Outdoor Championships, she did it again -- in the most amazing way yet. Read More

Ian Macara, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, recently returned from Scotland, where he received this year’s Colin Thomson Memorial Medal for his contributions to cancer research. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have established the molecular basis for the function of Replication Protein A (RPA), a DNA binding protein that is a crucial “scaffold” for genome replication, response to damage and repair. Read More

Pam Jones, DNP, MSN, R.N., senior associate dean for Clinical and Community Partnerships for Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN), has been recognized as the top representative of advanced practice nursing in Tennessee. Read More

Vanderbilt's entire football roster will join second-year head coach Derek Mason and his coaching staff at 'Dore Jam, which offers fans a chance to greet their favorite student-athletes and get autographs from both players and coaches. The event is free. Read More

A flash mob broke out in dance last week at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Hundreds of the world’s leading music cognition researchers are coming to Nashville from Saturday, Aug. 1, to Wednesday, Aug. 5, as Vanderbilt plays host to the biennial meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Read More

The Owen Graduate School of Management’s Executive Development Institute offers a 25 percent discount to all Vanderbilt faculty and staff members for its open enrollment programs. Read More

For the 91 members of the 140th class at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM), the first day of medical school began on July 15. Read More

In a town full of amazing singers, Nashville songstress Dawn Sears’ voice was something special. Read More

Weight Watchers at Work is an opportunity to invest in yourself and your health. A new session of the 12-week program begins Wednesday, Aug. 5. Read More

A group of adolescents gathered at the downtown Nashville Public Library last week for a three-day Digital Storytelling Workshop to learn how to write, edit and produce a video about managing their type 1 diabetes. Read More

Debra Friedman, M.D., director of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Pediatric Oncology, has received a $50,000 Hyundai Hope On Wheels Impact grant recently for her track record in providing excellent patient care to families affected by pediatric cancer and to support a pediatric cancer program aimed at developing innovative therapies. Read More

To describe James Alexander Jr. as a self-motivated achiever doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of this remarkable young man who is taking part in the dual degree program offered by Vanderbilt Law and Divinity schools. Read More

Ali Sevilla de Cocco began her Vanderbilt journey in 2004, and thanks to the generosity of others and her passion for learning, she’s still here today. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has debuted a new brand-identity video, "What it Takes to be a World-Class Nursing School." Read More

The Call for Abstracts is open for the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's 2015 Science Day, set for Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Vanderbilt University's Student Life Center. Read More

Experts from Owen, Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical Center will present and host sessions at the third INFORMS Healthcare 2015 Conference July 29-31 in Nashville. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators demonstrate that a certain eye lens protein is evolutionarily conserved between zebrafish and rat, suggesting that zebrafish can be used as a model system to understand eye lens disorders such as cataracts. Read More

Among U.S. job-seekers who identify as black, those born in the Caribbean and Africa are more likely to be working than those born here--but a college degree nearly erases that difference. Read More