Year: 2015

Vanderbilt biologist Laurence Zwiebel has received a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration grant to create a wrist-band device that devises a personal "no-fly zone" offering protection from mosquitoes. Read More

Vanderbilt jumped on Illinois early and cruised to a 13-0 win in the Super Regional opener at Illinois Field Saturday night. The second game in the best-of-three series was postponed Sunday due to weather and is re-scheduled for 3 p.m. today. In addition, several Dores are expected to go highly in Monday's MLB draft. Read More

Minutes from the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate’s April 2 meeting are now available online on the Faculty Senate website. Read More

The Employee Celebration picnic May 14 attracted thousands to several Vanderbilt locations. Read More

Metro Nashville Public Schools fifth- through eighth-graders gathered at Vanderbilt to hear acclaimed children's and young adult author Jacqueline Woodson, thanks to a gift by best-selling novelist James Patterson. Read More

USA Boxing certified coach Tramaine Crook has more than five years of experience in boxing and personal training. Read More

A June 12 talk by Alexandra Sargent at the Williamson County Public Library on the history of fashion branding has been postponed. Read More

Share your pics with the Vanderbilt community by tagging them #vandygram on Instagram and Twitter. Read More

This free event takes place Monday, June 15, noon to 1. Read More

A free talk on the value of breastfeeding will be held June 18 at 1 p.m. at Light Hall 419. Read More

Mammograms are an important tool in breast cancer detection. Vanderbilt offers convenient mammograms to employees, at several imaging centers. Some locations allow walk-ins during certain hours. Read More

The Vanderbilt Child & Family Center will host a Lunch and Learn on June 24 from noon to 1 p.m. in Light Hall, Read More

Three Vanderbilt physicists who are members of a scientific team at the Large Hadron Collider appeared in a BBC News photo taken when the giant particle smasher was restarted. Read More

Vanderbilt Football will host its 2015 Little Star Camp June 8, 9 and 10 from 8 a.m. to noon each day. Read More

Vanderbilt University investigators have identified a cellular receptor for a toxin from Clostridium difficile (“C. diff”) — the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in the United States. Read More

On June 1 in Chicago, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a mobile computer application under development at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, called SMART Precision Cancer Medicine (PCM), was featured in a demonstration of improved cancer care coordination through clinical data interoperability and electronic clinical information sharing. Read More

Ted Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., Betty and Lonnie S. Burnett Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was recently elected treasurer of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). His three-year term began in May. Read More

Arthur Dalley, Ph.D., professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt, recently received the highest education award for human anatomy education in the anatomical sciences during the 2015 Experimental Biology meeting in Boston. Read More

James Valentine, M.D., has joined the Section of Surgical Sciences, in the Division of Vascular Surgery, returning to Vanderbilt nearly 40 years after earning his undergraduate degree here. Read More

Nanibaa' Garrison, Ph.D., assistant professor of Pediatrics and Anthropology, has been appointed to serve on the Working Group on Diversity, which is an arm of the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read More