Month: October 2015

Television viewers in Middle Tennessee will begin to see new messages from Vanderbilt University Medical Center this week that build upon the “Promise of Discovery” theme to describe the Medical Center's work and mission. Read More

Join the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center‘s group fitness coordinator, Lori Cowan, as she leads a 30-minute walk around campus each Wednesday, now through Nov. 11. Read More

Vanderbilt philosopher John Lachs will speak and sign copies of his latest book Oct. 22 at Parnassus Books in Nashville. Read More

More than half of hospitalizations due to influenza pneumonia could be prevented by influenza vaccination, according to a study led by investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read More

Gregory Benford, a physicist at UC-Irvine and a noted science fiction author, is giving a free public lecture titled "Our Next Century in Space" that will describe steps that could see the opening of the solar system to productive use and colonization. Read More

The history of Antarctic exploration and the role that the coldest continent on Earth plays in global earth systems will be discussed at a Williamson County Public Library talk by Vanderbilt researcher Dan Morgan Oct. 9. Read More

A documentary film about the women’s liberation movement of the late 1960s, featuring archival footage and interviews, will have its Nashville premiere at Vanderbilt University on Monday, Oct. 19. Read More

Special education professor Andrea Capizzi spoke to Tennessee administrative law judges about inclusive education. Read More

Years of interdisciplinary research by Ted Fischer, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and more than a dozen Vanderbilt students from across the university went into the development of Mani+. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt seniors won first place at the three-day VandyHacks event held Oct. 2-4 at Sarratt Student Center. The invention marathon attracted 250 participants from Vanderbilt, Purdue, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a number of other mostly Southeastern schools. Read More

The glutamine transporter protein appears to contribute to the survival of lung cancer cells, suggesting it may be a useful diagnostic biomarker and target for therapies. Read More

The Office of the Provost has issued a call for proposals for the next round of Discovery and Research Scholar grants. These two internally funded grant programs, which are independent of the second round of Trans-Institutional Programs announced last month, support the scholarship of faculty. Read More

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Vanderbilt IT is launching a campaign to make the Vanderbilt community aware of various security issues and how to respond to each through a series of case studies. Read More

Choon-Leong Seow views his move to Vanderbilt, where he is Distinguished Professor of Hebrew Bible, as perfect timing for the increasingly interdisciplinary focus of his research. Read More

Keep up with all Vanderbilt-related social media on the Get Social website, including our favorite #vandygram photos of the week. Read More

A partnership between the Owen Graduate School of Management and Vanderbilt Libraries can benefit the entire campus research community with the availability of new technology tools that include a 'back door portal' to LexisNexis Academic content. Read More

Tori Trout smiled and chatted persistently, hour after hour, as hundreds of young engineering students lined up to listen to her pitch for working at Halma plc — the same pitch that convinced her just a year ago. Trout studied chemical engineering at Vanderbilt, graduated with her bachelor’s degree in… Read More

You can contribute up to $2,550 per year to a health care FSA. Read More

Recent experiments at the world's largest atom smashers are producing liquid drops so small that they raise the question of how small a droplet can be and still remain a liquid. Read More

The U.S. federal government is preparing to launch a set of sweeping new regulations that will have a major impact on how biomedical researchers and social scientists work. It will require researchers to change how they get ethics approval, how they collect informed consent from participants, and more. Read More