Year: 2015

Joseph Wehby has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 Special Education Research Award from the Council for Exceptional Children. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have discovered a new way to inhibit Hedgehog (Hh) signaling, an important regulatory pathway for vertebrate development – and cancer. Read More

Hear how a talented student is earning accolades in Vienna; see what an engineering student built to advance biomedical research; and celebrate with the newly accepted members of the Class of 2019. Watch now! Read More

Project Dialogue and the Vanderbilt Buddhist Community will host a meditation workshop at the new zen garden at the Office of the University Chaplain and Religious Life on April 7. Read More

This year’s festival, scheduled for April 17 and 18, will include performances by Chance the Rapper, Young the Giant, Portugal. The Man, T-Pain, RAC, The Lone Bellow, Matoma, Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes, and Louisa Wendorff. Read More

Jack P. Williams, a Vanderbilt alumnus and senior executive at ExxonMobil, discussed energy and success preceding his campus visit. Read More

When designing the new retirement plan structure, Vanderbilt’s Retirement Plan Oversight Committee considered independent third-party research on how the number of investment choices affects retirement plan participation. Read More

The Blair Big Band closes its concert season with Grammy-winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin April 9. Read More

Christopher Clark, author of "The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914," will speak April 8. Read More

McClure is one of six scholars in the 22nd class of Luce Fellows appointed by the Association of Theological Schools and The Henry Luce Foundation. Read More

Vanderbilt will mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month beginning Monday, April 6, with a week of skill-building events and opportunities to make a personal commitment to ending sexual violence in our community. Read More

Physician Tara Huss will present "Basics of Infant Safety at Home and in the Car," Thursday, April 16 at noon. Read More

A particular genetic mutation combined with an urban environment increases the risk of severe disease in children infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an international team of investigators has found. Read More

Josh Denny, M.D., M.S., associate professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, will help guide planning for the precision medicine initiative announced by President Obama in his January State of the Union Address. Read More

The death rates for most forms of cancer continue to decline at a modest pace among men, women and children in the United States, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer 1975 – 2011. Read More

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has once again recognized the Vanderbilt Stroke Center for using scientific guidelines to provide top quality patient care. Read More

Mark Rice, M.D., has joined Vanderbilt’s Department of Anesthesiology as professor and chief of the Division of Multispecialty Adult Anesthesiology. Read More

Radiology education expert Lori Deitte, M.D., has joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center as vice chair of Education and associate professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences. Read More

Roger Dmochowski, M.D., professor of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was recently elected a trustee of the American Board of Urology. Read More

The proteins that control entry and exit from the cell nucleus influence aging, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered. Read More