Year: 2016
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Four steps to building your career through the Vanderbilt network
The first steps on your career path can be the most daunting. As you seek to advance your career, the Vanderbilt network can help. Read MoreJul 20, 2016
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Four steps to advancing your career through Vanderbilt
Advancing your career requires just as much effort as finding your first job. Read MoreJul 20, 2016
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Breast cancer: finding the smoking gun
A new method developed at Vanderbilt may help “inventory” all tumor-promoting genes. Read MoreJul 20, 2016
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Pastoral care scholar who made history at VU Divinity School dies
A memorial service is scheduled Aug. 7 at Glendale Baptist Church for Peggy Ann Brainerd Way, a pioneering diversity advocate in higher education who taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read MoreJul 19, 2016
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Harrell to step down as chair of Biostatistics
Frank Harrell Jr., Ph.D., professor of Biostatistics and founding chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Biostatistics in 2003, will step down as chair after the completion of a national search for his successor. Read MoreJul 19, 2016
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Mayor appoints faculty, staff representatives to Metro boards
Mayoral appointments to Metro Nashville boards, committees and councils in recent weeks have included numerous representatives of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read MoreJul 19, 2016
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Vanderbilt Police accredited by International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators
The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators has re-accredited Vanderbilt University’s police department. Vanderbilt is one of two campus law enforcement agencies in the state to hold IACLEA accreditation. Read MoreJul 18, 2016
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Take communications survey, enter to win $50 Amazon gift card
Enter a drawing for one of four $50 Amazon gift cards by sharing your opinions on how Vanderbilt University communicates with its faculty and staff. Read MoreJul 18, 2016
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Diabetes drugs may ease addiction
Drugs that are being used clinically to treat obesity and diabetes may also have a role in treating drug abuse. Read MoreJul 18, 2016
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Peabody professor to address impostor syndrome
Noting her “extraordinary work on African Americans in STEM” issues, Peabody College professor Ebony McGee has been invited to give the keynote speech at the UNCF STEM Scholars Program Orientation and Student Leadership Summit in Atlanta. Read MoreJul 15, 2016
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Churchwell named chief diversity officer for VUMC
Dr. Andre Churchwell has been named to the newly created role of chief diversity officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In this role, he will continue to oversee the Office for Diversity Affairs in the School of Medicine while also engaging with other leaders across VUMC to create new opportunities for increasing diversity and inclusion. Read MoreJul 15, 2016
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Register to enjoy the TASTE of eating right
Beginning July 25, you can register for a ten-week experience of eating delicious food, saving money, and minimizing your time in the kitchen through the TASTE Nutrition Challenge, sponsored by Vanderbilt Health and Wellness. Read MoreJul 15, 2016
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Work together to control diabetes
Parenting behaviors may be an important target for improving outcomes in adolescents with diabetes. Read MoreJul 15, 2016
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Babies, Music and Movement: Register now for Kindermusik at Blair
Join a Kindermusik class at the Blair School of Music this fall, and you’ll find a joyous, playful, nurturing environment where babies and adults are guided through activities that help develop musical, cognitive and social skills. Fall registration is now open. Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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Summer 2016 Staff
The Peabody Reflector is published twice annually, in January and July, by Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development in cooperation with Vanderbilt University News and Communications, 2100 West End Ave. Suite 1100, Nashville, TN 37203. It is produced by Vanderbilt’s Creative Services and Printing Services, and University… Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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Vanderbilt again named one of state’s healthier workplaces
Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have been recognized for the third year in a row as a Healthier Tennessee Workplace by the Governor’s Foundation for Health and Wellness. Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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Vanderbilt ranked 27th in ‘Money’ magazine poll
"Money" magazine has named Vanderbilt No. 27 on its list of best-value colleges in the nation. More than 700 were evaluated. Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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Phishers target Medical Center employees via fake salary increase emails
VUMC IT Security Operations has detected a targeted attack against VUMC users. Phishers continue to target Medical Center employees with information pertaining to salary increases. Subject lines of these emails usually include verbiage resembling “Payroll Increase,” “Salary Documents,” or “Your New Paycheck.” Below is an example of a fraudulent… Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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‘Dark pools’ threaten market governance of financial markets
The major stock exchanges need new methods of regulation because of "dark pools," trading platforms that allow trades to remain private for a short while, says Vanderbilt finance expert Yesha Yadav. Read MoreJul 14, 2016
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Vanderbilt takes over SEC Network programming Monday
The SEC Network Takeover begins Monday, July 18, and the Commodores will be the first out of the gates. For the second year in a row, the SEC Network is providing each league member 24 hours of exclusive programming. Read MoreJul 14, 2016