Year: 2015

If you have not yet completed your Go for the Gold, don’t delay! The Go for the Gold deadline is midnight on Saturday, Oct. 31. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of only a few academic medical centers in the country with a dedicated hospital-wide tobacco treatment service. Read More

Bharatanatyam, a traditional dance form that hails from the temples of Southern India and originated at least 3,000 years ago, will be the topic of the Nov. 4 session of World on Wednesdays. Read More

Representatives from offices across the university that a play a key role in emergency preparedness at Vanderbilt will meet for an emergency table-top training exercise on Thursday, Nov. 5. Read More

New Department of Radiation Oncology Chair Lisa Kachnic wants to make Vanderbilt's program one of the best in the country. Read More

Throughout history, many feats of creativity, scientific discovery and memory have been credited to visual thinking. Maithilee Kunda wants to understand how this kind of thinking works at a computational level. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate for the Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award Program for 2016. This award provides $550,000 over five years for young investigators involved in research for the cure and treatment of diseases in the fields of cancer, immunology and neuroscience. Read More

A new Weight Watchers at Work session is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in Doctor’s Office Tower conference room 7139. Read More

Vanderbilt IT will install a new certificate for LDAP, which is an enterprise service that software applications can use to authenticate users, when the current certificate expires Dec. 5. Read More

Box recently announced that its Web application will have a new look and feel, as well as performance updates, by Nov. 2. Read More

A campus space designed to celebrate the history and contributions of black students at Vanderbilt opens, historically black sorority Delta Sigma Theta celebrates 40 years on campus, and the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center launches its AmbassaDores program on Friday, Oct. 23, during the university’s Reunion and Homecoming. Read More

If you need help enrolling or don’t have access to a computer, visit the HR Express office on the second floor of the 2525 West End Building or one of the upcoming enrollment labs. Read More

The second annual Commons Unplugged environmental awareness week—scheduled for Oct. 25–31—will celebrate sustainability, natural resource conservation and energy conservation through various events focusing on Vanderbilt’s first-year student population. Read More

World Travel Service will hold meet-and-greet sessions Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Light Hall and Sarratt Cinema, just prior to taking over as Vanderbilt’s new travel agency next Friday. Read More

Watch video of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s class on “Who Was Nelson Mandela?” October 21, 2015 with Clive Mentzel. Read More

Watch video of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s class “Legal and Policy Issues in Modern Warfare” October 21, 2015 with Michael Newton. Read More

Watch video of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s class on “Who Was Nelson Mandela?” October 21, 2015 with Clive Mentzel. Read More

iStock Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will expand its teen motor vehicle safety program, “Be in the Zone – Turn off Your Phone” with the help of a $60,000 award from the Allstate Foundation. The program is spearheaded by the Pediatric Trauma Injury… Read More

As part of its ongoing commitment to provide excellent care for heart failure patients in Tennessee and the Southeastern U.S., Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute recently became the first medical center in the state to implant the HeartMate 3, a novel mechanical circulatory support device. Vanderbilt… Read More

Jamaicans overwhelmingly disapprove of gay citizens running for political office, even more than they disapprove of regime critics doing so. Read More