Year: 2015

A new two-year program will train preaching coaches to help ministers improve their communication skills. Read More

Join Vanderbilt in celebrating National Employee Health & Fitness Day. Read More

Stephanie Dean with Work-Life Connections speaks about the risks and benefits of engaging in difficult conversations. Read More

Peabody College professors Rogers Hall and Ebony McGee were honored by the American Educational Research Association on April 17. Read More

Bonnie Miller, M.D., senior associate dean for Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, offered some sound advice to the class of 2015 during last week’s commencement ceremony. Read More

Linda Norman, DSN, R.N., Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing and dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, told graduates during Vanderbilt’s Commencement and Investiture ceremonies last week that “nursing today is as influential as when Florence Nightingale defined and organized nursing in the United Kingdom in the 1800s. We are one of the most essential elements in health care delivery today and are being recognized for it.” Read More

“It takes a village to raise a scientist.” That’s how Shenika Poindexter describes Vanderbilt University’s approach to graduate training in the biomedical sciences. Read More

Valerie Malyvanh Jansen, M.D., Ph.D., a third-year medical oncology fellow, recently received several national awards and grants, as well as a Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center fellowship, in recognition of her translational cancer research. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Spring Faculty Meeting will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, in 208 Light Hall. Read More

R. Daniel Beauchamp, M.D., chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences and the John Clinton Foshee Distinguished Professor of Surgery, was selected to receive the 2015 Flance-Karl Award from the American Surgical Association (ASA). Read More

Three Vanderbilt University scientists will describe “gene-environment interactions in cancer etiology and prevention” at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 21, in 208 Light Hall. Read More

Fred Allison Jr., M.D., professor of Medicine, emeritus, and former chief of the Division of Internal Medicine, died May 8 at age 92. Read More

On May 28-29 at Vanderbilt, the Precision Medicine Initiative Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold a public workshop devoted to research cohorts and electronic health records. Read More

A novel mechanism could point to new therapies for a group of inherited diseases that share pathological features. Read More

What values should guide the Metro Transit Authority as it considers improvements to Nashville's transit system? Read More

Results of the latest Vanderbilt Poll have been released, and they show that Tennesseans are very supportive of Insure Tennessee. Read More

Animals at the Nashville Zoo and Walden’s Puddle recently enjoyed a sweet treat, thanks to Vanderbilt’s Office of the Chancellor and Commencement Office. Read More

Steve Wernke has been awarded the Society of American Archaeology 2015 Book Award in the scholarly category. Read More

For the third year in a row, the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club has won NASA’s eight-month long rocketry competition – the 2014-15 Student Launch Challenge – beating out 30 other university and college teams. Read More

Metro Nashville Public Works is in the construction phase of the 21st Avenue-Broadway-Division Street Intersection and Pedestrian Enhancement Project. Beginning May 13, the traffic pattern in this area will shift to allow work to continue. Read More