Year: 2016

Vanderbilt’s Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program is seeking members of the university community to serve as Friendship Families for its International Fellows during the 2016-17 academic year. Read More

Six alumni will be recognized by the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Board for their volunteerism, public service and professional accomplishments. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Board is pleased to announce new leadership and the addition of eight new members. Read More

Beginning July 1, faculty and staff traveling on Vanderbilt University business may file meal expenses using a per diem rate. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s new Compliance Reporting Hotline and online form go live Friday, July 1. Read More

Read about the latest faculty and student awards, appointments and achievements. Read More

As the July 4th holiday weekend approaches, doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are urging caution with consumer fireworks and suggest leaving these displays to the experts. Thousands of people, most often children and teens, are injured each year using consumer fireworks. Vanderbilt doctors annually… Read More

The Program for Music, Mind and Society at Vanderbilt is seeking poster abstracts for its annual symposium scheduled for Sept. 12. Read More

In the journal Medical Care, Michael Richards, M.D., Ph.D., MPH and colleagues report that more office-based physicians are affiliating with integrated health systems. Apparently through this affiliation, physicians become more likely to accept Medicaid patients. From 2009 to 2015, independent practices decreased from 73 percent to 60 percent… Read More

Health care once seemed simple: You got sick, called a doctor, and paid the bill as best you could. Today health care accounts for nearly 20 percent of the total U.S. gross domestic product—about $3 trillion of economic activity annually. It’s also the largest item in the federal budget, making… Read More

Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos remarks on the death of former University of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt. Read More

As a private institution, Vanderbilt University is not subject to a new state law that takes effect Friday, July 1, for public colleges and universities. Read More

Summer is here, and the United States is bracing for the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus. A Vanderbilt researcher is working on one way to stop the spread of the disease – by revving up the mosquito’s taste buds. Read More

Let fireworks be the only thing lighting up the sky this holiday weekend. Read More

John and Valerie Longoria breathed a sigh of relief when the team lead by John C. Pope IV, M.D., professor of Urologic Surgery and Pediatrics, told them a minor procedure on their 8-month-old son Maverick had been successful, and they could soon take their son home to Oak Grove, Kentucky. But then, things quickly changed. Read More

John Hall, former chair of Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust, who gained international recognition for his leadership style, approach to crisis management and philanthropy, is the subject of a new, hour-long Kentucky Educational Television documentary titled John Hall: The Kentucky Commodore. Hall established the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series… Read More

To read Meredith Dolhare’s long list of athletic triumphs, it’s tempting to ask if there’s anything she can’t do. After transferring to join the Vanderbilt women’s tennis team in 1993 following a freshman stint at perennially top-ranked UCLA, Dolhare (along with then-new Head Coach Geoff Macdonald) helped lift the… Read More

To reflect the changing employee communication needs of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, effective June 30, MyVU will be sent to all faculty and to university staff only. Read More

In one of the largest, most representative health surveys conducted to date, lesbian, gay and bisexual adults reported substantially higher rates of severe psychological distress, heavy drinking and smoking, and impaired physical health than did heterosexuals. Read More

Barbara A. Given, the Visiting Ingram Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and university distinguished professor at the Michigan State University College of Nursing, will lead the search committee for the next senior associate dean for research for VUSN. Read More