Month: August 2017

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt staff gathered recently to celebrate the hospital’s performance in the recent U.S. News & World Report ranking of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. Read More

What do 16,000 Band-Aids, 72 bottles of hand gel, 36 flat sheets, 30 trashcans, two wheelchairs, one crash cart and a 140-foot by 40-foot tent signal? Read More

Adam Esbenshade, M.D., MSCI, assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, has been awarded a $50,000 Hyundai Hope on Wheels Impact Award. Esbenshade plans to use data to create a risk prediction model to predict blood stream infections in pediatric cancer patients. Read More

Past research has proven that palliative care — specialized medical care focused on pain and symptom management as well as psychosocial interventions to improve quality of life — benefits patients with malignant diseases such as aggressive cancers. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) health care providers are now studying whether palliative care can also benefit those with advanced liver disease, a diagnosis that precedes either a life-saving liver transplant or death. Read More

If you have a smiling face, a friendly personality and enjoy having fun, consider signing up to be a VU Event Volunteer. Read More

The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion presents “Inclusive Excellence 101: Unconscious Bias – A New Look at an Old Dynamic.” The first workshop for fall 2017 is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 29. Read More

Entering its fourth year, Vanderbilt University’s Academic Strategic Plan still charts the course for the university’s efforts as it moves forward to address the complex problems facing society. Read More

Relive Monday's epic total solar eclipse across Vanderbilt's campus through the lenses of Vanderbilt Video. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered that oxidative damage may play an important role in the development of a rare cholesterol synthesis disease and in the behavioral changes of autism spectrum disorders. Read More

Vanderbilt may submit one application for the 2018 Japan Foundation Institutional Project Support Program. The program is designed to encourage innovative and sustained growth of Japanese studies in the United States. Read More

On Tuesday, Aug. 22, VUPD received a report from a Campus Security Authority that a female student was sexually assaulted by a male student in a campus residence hall on Aug. 21. Read More

A $2 million investment in Vanderbilt Law School by Cal Turner Jr., BA’62, will provide legal support to entrepreneurs on shoestring budgets to help them get up and running. Read More

The exhibition, on display Sept. 11-Dec. 7 at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, examines how, in our image-saturated world, photographs have increasingly played a primary role in shaping identity. Read More

The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center presents “Take the First Step to Investing” with Brock Goodwin, a retirement planner with Fidelity Investments, from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, at Medical Center East, Room 8380B. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos discusses Monday's "remarkable" total solar eclipse as well as the university's shared values and encourages unity in his welcome message to the Vanderbilt community. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Library’s special and permanent collections will be strategically expanded this year via a new one-year program called the Library Collections Initiative. Read More

The Office of the Provost has released its second annual report focused on equity, diversity and inclusivity efforts at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have found that red blood cell membrane fatty acid content is associated with risk of having colorectal adenomas, with omega-6 fatty acids increasing and omega-3 fatty acids decreasing risk. Read More

Ally Sullivan, director of real estate at Vanderbilt University, has been appointed executive director of Facilities Business Operations following a national search. In this newly created role, Sullivan will lead the fiscal, administrative and business services that support the institution-wide Facilities organization. Read More

A new study has found that sugars in mother's' milk do not just provide nutrition for babies but also help protect them from bacterial infections. Read More