Month: March 2016

Learn about the difference between palliative and hospice care at a March 16 lunch and learn. Read More

The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center (VRWC) and Vanderbilt Outdoor Recreation will host “Commodore Climb 2: Chalk to the Hand” on Thursday, March 31. Read More

The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center (VRWC) is hiring for this summer's youth programs. Several positions are available, and applications are now being accepted. Read More

The VRWC presents its Mobile Massage Giveaway Contest. Enter to win mobile massages for your department. Read More

Shakespeare, transitional justice in South Africa, the Nashville Ballet, and Judaism are among the diverse topics open to all adults 50 and older this spring through the Institute for Lifelong Learning at Vanderbilt. Read More

Are you on track for retirement? Do you need assistance planning for the future? Fidelity NetBenefits can help. Read More

The first African American dean of a Vanderbilt school or college has died. Russell G. Hamilton was 81. Read More

Check out our favorite #vandygram photos of the week on the Get Social website. Have a great photo for us? Tag it #vandygram. Photo by @mikin24seven… Read More

The students of Next Steps at Vanderbilt are this year’s recipient of the Perry Wallace Courage Award. Read More

When Latinos hear tough talk about immigrants and immigration from politicians, their level of political trust is reduced and they start identifying more with their ethnic group than other qualities such as class or religion. Read More

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, and the goal of the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Center is to encourage and help all Vanderbilt employees to schedule their colonoscopies. Read More

The 2016 Cuninggim Lecture on Women in Culture and Society is scheduled for March 22, when the Women's Center also will hand out its annual Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center Leadership Award, Mentoring Award, and the Mary Jane Werthan Award. Read More

Melanoma-specific expression of a certain protein identifies tumors that are more responsive to an immune therapy. Read More

Join Health Plus' celebration of National Nutrition Month, and make healthy eating the norm. Read More

The Department of Medicine's Mini-Research Retreat is Saturday, March 12, from 8 a.m. until noon in Light Hall 208. Read More

Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt welcomes science educator, TV personality, comedian and political commentator Bill Nye to the store March 31 for a signing of his latest best-seller. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce a recent gift from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation of two photographs by Shirin Neshat, which are intended to spark cross-cultural dialogue about international issues and religious and political divides and to facilitate collaboration between academic departments at the university and the gallery. Read More

“Close Readings: American Abstract Art from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection” will feature the unique interpretations of more than 35 faculty and students from disciplines across the university, providing fresh, new insights into how we look at art. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have relieved symptoms in a mouse model of Rett syndrome with a drug-like compound that works like the dimmer switch in an electrical circuit. Read More

For the first time, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators have used a cancer patient’s own re-engineered immune cells to treat a form of blood cancer by stimulating the immune system. Read More