Year: 2015

Vanderbilt opens its 2015 football season on Thursday, Sept. 3, with a nationally televised game on the SEC Network against Western Kentucky University. With the game being played on a workday, some adjustments in parking and traffic flow are necessary. Read More

Arthur C. Fleischer, M.D., Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, is the recipient of a Lifetime Service Award from the American Board of Radiology (ABR). Read More

Jill Simmons, M.D., encounters medical mysteries that have the makings of a science fiction film or novel. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University for the first time have demonstrated in a mouse model that aggregation, the “clumping together” of abnormal proteins, can contribute to a severe form of genetic epilepsy. Read More

New findings show that fibrin, a protein that was thought to play a key role in fracture healing, is not required, shifting understanding of how fractures heal. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a research study for a rare disease called Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS), an inherited disorder that causes albinism, decreased visual acuity and susceptibility to bleeding due to platelet dysfunction. Read More

Vanderbilt employees celebrated with co-workers while enjoying frozen treats at Vandy Chills on Aug. 7. Read More

Nashville's homeless services community is invited to participate in a discussion of important new findings that could have policy implications close to home. Read More

The Curb Youth Symphony, Philharmonia and Nashville Youth Repertory Orchestra are now scheduling auditions. Read More

When you use your Kroger Plus card at area stores, a percentage of your total purchase can benefit Vanderbilt’s Faculty and Staff Hardship Fund. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are exploring how neuroblastoma tumors begin and progress, knowledge that could provide new treatments for this pediatric cancer. Read More

The Nashville Sounds will host a trio of appreciation nights for Vanderbilt employees on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Read More

Vanderbilt University researcher Marybeth Shinn has studied homelessness interventions and policy for more than 30 years. Read More

VIDEO» As dean of The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, Beasley serves as the academic leader, mentor and senior administrator of the first-year student experience at Vanderbilt. Read More

You may like your coffee in the morning, but chances are you don’t savor it as much as Sam Reilly, an intern at The Vanderbilt Institute for Coffee Studies who is marketing his new app for lovers of a good cup of joe. Reilly prefers “coffee that is sourced from… Read More

Vanderbilt and three other Nashville organizations will join forces Aug. 20 to host a forum for the 10 at-large runoff candidates vying for five open seats on the Metro Council. Read More

Jean Bass Crawford, former editor of the "Vanderbilt Alumnus" and director of the Office of Alumni Publications, died Aug. 7 in Nashville. Read More

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management was one of 45 top business schools that visited the White House Aug. 5 to announce that it was committing to a new set of best practices for helping women succeed in business school and throughout their careers. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Board of Trust has approved a $10 million project to provide enhanced space in Memorial Gym for instruction, team building, coaching and settings that can foster interactions with returning professional players. Read More

Drugs that target DNA damage improve ovarian cancer cell response to platinum chemotherapies, suggesting new therapeutic opportunities. Read More