Month: April 2016

The Vanderbilt School of Medicine Flexner Deans Lecture Series and Alpha Omega Alpha will present the 2016 AOA Ed Hollaran Lectureship at noon on Monday, April 11, in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

Watching live video of a workshop on a smartphone or tablet is just one of a growing number of ways Vanderbilt Libraries and other groups on campus are using the Periscope app to share information and engage the community. Read More

Vanderbilt chefs Brian Hancock and Austin Irvin will create masterful dishes using ancient grains for the April edition of Vandy Cooks. The event is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, April 15, at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center demonstration kitchen. Read More

For young man with autism, cooking is more than a pastime, it’s a calling. Read More

When it comes to teaching toddlers, there’s no such thing as one size fits all. Read More

A leading theorist and researcher on how technology impacts learning, George Siemens thinks digitization of content and interaction has profound implications on teaching and learning and the organization of universities in general. Read More

TennesseeWorks and the Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resource Management are hosting a CapABILITY Career Expo on May 25. There, employers will share career information and recruit job candidates with disabilities. Read More

Three Vanderbilt students have been recognized in this year’s Goldwater Scholars competition. Marie Armbruster and Jarrod Shilts have been selected as Goldwater Scholars, and Sirui Ma has been awarded an honorable mention. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers show that a certain factor negatively impacts the first-line responder cells in the lungs, providing one explanation for why patients with asthma are at greater risk for invasive bacterial disease. Read More

Last week, David Charles, M.D., chief medical officer of the Vanderbilt Neuroscience Institute, vice-chair of the Department of Neurology and medical director of Telemedicine, represented Vanderbilt University Medical Center at a White House Convening on Rural Telehealth. Read More

A memorial event is scheduled for Bob Birkby of Vanderbilt's political science department on Friday, April 15, in The Commons Center. Read More

Delirium in the ICU is the subject of a Vanderbilt University Medical Center group's research, which will be represented April 7 at a delirium forum in Furman Hall. Read More

John T. Wilson, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development award. The five-year, $500,000 grant will allow him to develop new synthetic materials for “encoding” immunological messages and tightly regulating their delivery to the organs, cells and pathways of the immune system. Read More

Vanderbilt seniors have designed a new method that improves the accuracy of magnetic strip placement during the manufacture of payment cards. Read More

Undergraduates taking Amanda Lowery’s Material Manipulations course have redesigned a toy car so a two-year-old with cerebral palsy can drive it. Read More

The Williamson County Public Library will host four "poets who heal" for a public reading April 19 at 6 p.m. as part of the Vanderbilt University Lectures in the Library series. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has entered into a strategic research agreement with Celgene Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company based in Summit, New Jersey. Read More

Nashville's increasingly popular country music scene is the backdrop for VU Theatre's April 7-10 production of "The Misanthrope," a comedy of manners written by the renowned French playwright Molière. Read More

On April 1, news of "Vanderbilt's biggest discovery yet" was shared on social media; this image from the Alumni Lawn dig site is one our favorite #vandygram photos of the week. Read More

Public opinion date gathered by Vanderbilt University's Latin American Public Opinion Project shows that the people of Brazil have lost confidence in their political institutions. Read More