Month: January 2016

Due to inclement weather, delivery of today’s print issue of the VUMC Reporter has been postponed until Monday, Jan. 25. Read More

Classes are canceled Jan. 22. Guidance here for all university staff from Barbara Carroll, chief human resources officer, about the inclement weather and reporting to work. Read More

The Peabody Office of Professional and Graduate Education held a reception in honor of George C. Hill, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, on Jan. 19 in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. Read More

As a Vanderbilt employee, you can take advantage of Fidelity’s guidance consulting service at no cost, even if you aren’t currently participating in the retirement plan. Read More

Watch video of The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt’s winter class – “Climate Change Literature: A New Fictional Genre about a Real Problem” on Thursday, January 21. Read More

Health Plus presents an informative discussion about cardiovascular health by Dr. Thomas J. Wang at its Feb. 5 Lunch and Learn event. Read More

College of Arts and Science faculty and graduate students have been honored with teaching and mentoring excellence awards. Read More

The "Vanderbilt Historical Review" is online and ready for readers, with a semiannual publication schedule planned from now on. Read More

A Vanderbilt patient who has battled leukemia for nearly five years was granted a private screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” thanks to her medical providers and a local movie theater. Read More

There may be a “silver bullet” for Ebola, a family of hemorrhagic viruses, one of which has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa in the past two years. Read More

Certain protein factors have been identified as attractive targets for treating diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness in adults. Read More

The brains of children who are obese function differently from those of children of healthy weight, and exhibit an “imbalance” between food-seeking and food-avoiding behaviors, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found. Read More

It was while inside a loud and odoriferous chromium metal plating shop that Stephanie Spottswood first considered a career in medicine. Read More

Fourteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been named to the 2016 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The class comprises highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, and clinical sciences, as well as business, education and engineering. Read More

Carmen Solórzano, M.D., professor of Surgery and director of the Endocrine Surgery Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has been named chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery in the Department of Surgery. Read More

Karen Hughart, MSN, R.N., has been named senior director of Nursing Informatics, where she will lead the nursing enterprise in implementing new clinical systems in a partnership with clinical leaders throughout Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Read More

As a child in Africa, Rita Adeniran, DNP, R.N., had never heard of Martin Luther King Jr. Read More

Christine Lovly, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology, has been awarded a V Scholar Grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center officials cut the ribbon at Tuesday’s open house celebrating the debut of Vanderbilt Health’s new Belle Meade Walk-In Clinic. Read More

Alvin Powers, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, has been named president-elect, Medicine and Science, of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for 2016. Read More