Year: 2016
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VKC Science Day set for Sept. 19; registration now open
The annual Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Science Day is Monday, Sept. 19, and registration to attend is now open on the VKC website. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Use your Kroger card to support the Faculty and Staff Hardship Fund
Helping colleagues in need within the university community is easy when you use your Kroger Plus card to benefit the Vanderbilt Faculty and Staff Hardship Fund. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Peabody professor named ‘Emerging Leader’ by Nashville Chamber
Michelle Reising Scobey, assistant professor of the practice and co-director of the M.Ed. clinical psychological assessment program at Peabody College, has been given an Emerging Leader award by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Young Professionals Network of Nashville. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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NIH grant bolsters mass spectrometry research initiatives
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a major renewal grant to continue the National Research Resource for Imaging Mass Spectrometry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Mobile app for My Health at Vanderbilt expands access options
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s secure online patient portal, My Health at Vanderbilt (MHAV), is now even more accessible to patients with the launch of a new mobile app. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Team explores transcription factor’s autoimmunity role
Increasing expression of a transcription factor called KLF2 can promote immunological self-tolerance and “tune down” autoimmunity, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center reported recently. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Research team takes aim at Ebola virus ‘decoy protein’
Using an antibody generated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that neutralizes the Ebola virus, researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, have determined the structure of a “decoy” protein that may enable the virus to evade detection by the immune system. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Assembly highlights value of VUMC’s people, culture
With the theme of “It’s About People,” Jeff Balser M.D., Ph.D., President and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, began the Summer Clinical Enterprise Leadership Assembly by urging nearly 1,000 Medical Center leaders in attendance in Langford Auditorium to consider the emotional needs of members of their teams. In particular, he asked leaders to recognize the psychological impact of recent tragic events happening across the U.S. and in other nations. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Timing, teamwork key for young liver transplant patient
Antwane Cole Jr., known as “AJ” to friends and family, began his summer playing football and enjoying his favorite superhero, Spiderman. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Transcription factor evolution
Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a novel model of evolution for factors that control gene expression. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Study explores low oxygen’s impact on antibody quality
Hypoxia (lack of enough oxygen) is bad for the body as a whole, but in the neighborhood where infection-fighting antibodies arise, may be important for keeping proper order. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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School of Nursing dean emerita named ‘living legend’
Colleen Conway-Welch, dean emerita of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, has been named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing, one of nursing’s most distinguished and prestigious professional organizations. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Neurology team enhances discharge process
More people needing neurology care can be admitted to Vanderbilt University Hospital after a team of employees eliminated delays in the discharge process to make beds available sooner. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Study reveals neurotransmitter glutamate’s molecular structure
Terunaga Nakagawa, with colleagues from Japan and Oxford University in England, has discovered the bridgelike molecular structure of a mysterious glutamate receptor. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Songs from the Heart concert set for Sept. 9
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s (VICC) 10th annual Songs from the Heart concert will be held Friday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m., in the Vanderbilt University Student Life Center Ballroom, 310 25th Ave. South. Read MoreAug 11, 2016
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Feedback on direct deposit of payroll
As part of the SkyVU project to implement new financial and HR systems, Vanderbilt University is reviewing a wide range of current processes, with a goal of streamlining and eliminating inefficient activities. One of the practices under review is whether to continue issuing any paper paychecks. Your feedback is needed. Read MoreAug 10, 2016
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Promotional products, food and fun at supplier fair Aug. 30
Vanderbilt University’s Trademark Licensing office and Procurement Services will host a supplier fair from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the Student Life Center ballroom. Come meet 30 of Vanderbilt’s approved merchandise suppliers as they showcase a variety of products. Read MoreAug 10, 2016
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The Science of Politics: Vanderbilt experts put their theories to the test in the 2016 election
To say that this has been a crazy year in politics is a laugh-out-loud understatement. We turn to the experts in Vanderbilt’s renowned political science department for insight not only into the 2016 presidential race, but also into the future of U.S. politics itself. Read MoreAug 10, 2016
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Strong Inside: Courted by athletic powerhouses nationwide, Perry Wallace, BE’70, chose Vanderbilt—and made SEC history
Each year Vanderbilt selects a book for all incoming first-year students to read during the summer before arriving on campus. This year’s selection is Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South by Andrew Maraniss, BA’92. Here we present an excerpt adapted from Strong Inside, which is currently being made into a documentary film and a children’s book. Read MoreAug 10, 2016
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Hoop Dreams: Two new Vanderbilt basketball coaches bring pro experience—and Indiana bona fides—to Memorial Gym
Vanderbilt begins a new chapter in its proud basketball tradition as Bryce Drew and Stephanie White take the helm of the men's and women's teams. Read MoreAug 10, 2016