Year: 2015

The start of both the school year and football season had the Vanderbilt community sharing their tweets, posts and photos on social media. Read More

Go for the Gold's first step helps you identify personal health risks and find ways to improve your health. Read More

Vanderbilt may nominate two candidates for the Simons Investigators in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems award. Read More

AlertVU sends emergency messages in the event of an imminent threat or danger to the Vanderbilt community. Read More

Charles King, BA’91, a top agent who has represented Oprah, Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry, has a vision for entertainment that is more multicultural and more digital. Read More

Dietary vitamin C may maintain healthy blood vessels in patients with inflammatory diseases. Read More

"Forging Identity—Imagining the Enemy: American Propaganda and the Great War" and "Selma Freeman Ramsey and the Social Realist Tradition" open at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery this month. Read More

Jessica Oster is a member of a small group of earth scientists pioneering the use of mineral cave deposits in stalagmites, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate. Read More

Understanding how signaling molecules are transported within and out of the cell may help to uncover the causes of certain cancers. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are participating in a national study to compare the health benefits and safety of three main methods of bariatric, or weight-loss surgery. Read More

Donna Session, M.D., has been named to direct Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, which treats problems related to reproductive medicine including infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian disease, congenital uterine anomalies, fibroids and risk of genetic disorders in offspring. Read More

Brent Dunworth, MSN, MBA, APN, CRNA, has been named associate director of Advanced Practice, Anesthesia. Read More

Ellen Clayton, M.D., J.D., the Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics and professor of Law and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University, has been selected to serve as co-chair of the National Academies’ Report Review Committee (RRC). Read More

The Flexner Discovery Lecture Series kicks off this fall with a discussion of health care cost control. Timothy Jost, J.D., emeritus professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, will speak on Thursday, Sept. 10. Read More

Cancer patients, family members and those who care for cancer patients often need a way to express the deep and often lasting emotions that a cancer diagnosis can bring. Read More

Phila Hach recently celebrated her 89th birthday and she has had much to celebrate over the years. Read More

Vanderbilt University is seizing the opportunity to become a hub for music research in the heart of Music City. Read More

John Lutz, vice chancellor for information technology at Vanderbilt, has been honored by the "Nashville Business Journal" as one of Middle Tennessee’s top CIOs, the journal announced Sept. 2. Read More

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt held a celebration today to mark the launch for construction of the hospital’s latest expansion, which will add four floors of new space atop the hospital’s existing structure. Patients and families, joined by community supporters and Vanderbilt leaders, gathered to celebrate the… Read More

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean was the guest speaker Aug. 31 for an undergraduate public policy studies class taught by former Mayor Bill Purcell, an adjunct professor of public policy at Vanderbilt. Read More