Year: 2015

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos visited with members of Congress last week to discuss the recommendations of the Task Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Education and to encourage members to reach a budget agreement that allows for additional discretionary funding for important priorities such as research and education. Read More

After treating hundreds of people for heat exhaustion last year at the CMA Music Festival, Vanderbilt LifeFlight officials are warning visitors to take necessary precautions this week while attending this year’s festival in downtown Nashville, and also urge caution for those attending the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in nearby… Read More

The Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability and the Upper Cumberland Area Agency on Aging will host the second Tennessee for a Lifetime conference on Saturday, July 25, from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Tennessee Tech University. Read More

The next Vanderbilt Red Cross blood drive takes place Friday, June 26, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., at Frist Hall Atrium. Read More

The VRWC's Biggest Winner program combines exercise, nutrition, and wellness to help you lose weight and build the skills necessary to reach your personal health goals. Read More

Vanderbilt may nominate two candidates for the Searle Scholars Program for 2016. Read More

As the organic food movement grows, there is a lot of information (and misinformation) about whether organically grown foods are actually better for consumers. Laura Osterman breaks it down. Read More

Effective June 2, the St. Thomas Medical Group has terminated its network agreement with Aetna Insurance Company. This change will affect nearly 300 of Vanderbilt’s valued employees. Read More

The White House has recognized Gokul Krishnan, a Ph.D. student in learning sciences at Vanderbilt's Peabody College, for his Makerspace project at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Inhibitors of the enzyme phospholipase D1 suppress the replication of HIV-1, Vanderbilt investigators have discovered. Read More

Jamey Young, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, wants to learn more about the estimated 5-10 percent of people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease who never develop its deadliest complications in the hopes of developing new treatments. Read More

When doing math, some children do worse on subsequent problems after receiving feedback. Read More

A series of immersive reality experiments has confirmed that the human brain’s internal navigation system works in the same fashion as the grid cell system recently found in other mammals. Read More

Vanderbilt baseball fans came out to cheer on the Commodores June 11 as the team boarded buses en route to the College World Series. Read More

United Way executive Meagan Flippin has been selected for a full-tuition scholarship to Owen Graduate School of Management’s Executive MBA program. Read More

Using revolutionary CRISPR technology, Vanderbilt investigators have developed a fast and simple method to simultaneously turn off multiple genes in order to study complex diseases. Read More

Vanderbilt University researchers have come closer to solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for more than a century: after the loss of one kidney, what causes the growth of the remaining kidney to take up the slack? Read More

Communication is a two-way street, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Physician Council for Clinical Service Excellence, formed in 2011, uses its monthly meetings to share ideas, come up with new ones, and take institutional information back to their practices. Read More

Two vastly different causes of heart failure, both of which can devastate a patient’s life, are being studied at Vanderbilt University Medical Center thanks, in part, to the generosity of a grateful patient whose own damaged heart was repaired at Vanderbilt more than five years ago. Read More

Earlier this year the Medical Center Medical Board at Vanderbilt approved all-inclusive online reporting of adult patient test results through the Vanderbilt University Medical Center secure patient Web portal, My Health at Vanderbilt (MHAV). Read More