Year: 2017

There's good and bad news in the new Tennessee Men's Health Report Card. Read More

"I’ve never taken a direct shot, but sometimes a puck comes over the top of the glass and hits me," says Vanderbilt photographer John Russell, who also serves as the official photographer for the Nashville Predators. "It still hurts." Read More

A PET probe that detects the amino acid glutamine predicts whether tumors respond to certain targeted therapies in preclinical animal models. Read More

David ter Kuile, an accomplished leader with 19 years of experience in multiple sectors of the food service industry, has been named executive director of Campus Dining. Read More

Honora Eskridge has been named director of the Stevenson Science and Engineering Library at Vanderbilt University. She will join the Vanderbilt community at the end of August. Read More

Research by Steve Posavac, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Marketing at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, uncovers another consequence of anxiety symptoms: susceptibility to certain ads. Read More

Los Angeles native Christina Shaw had two powerful goals when she decided to move cross country to live in Nashville – the first was to support her favorite hockey team and the second was to meet a renowned lung cancer specialist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Read More

Most women who undergo a cesarean childbirth are prescribed more opioid (narcotic) pain medications than needed upon release from the hospital, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center study shows. Read More

Head Women's Basketball Coach Stephanie White was inducted into the 2017 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Hall of Fame class during ceremonies June 10 in Orlando, Florida. Read More

The first drug to treat calcification of heart valves may be one originally designed for rheumatoid arthritis. Read More

Employees enjoyed a spectacular performance by the Nashville Symphony June 8 on Employee Appreciation Family Night. Read More

New findings shed light on how enzymes that replicate DNA skip over mutations that might cause cancer and restart DNA synthesis further away. Read More

Vanderbilt may nominate up to three faculty members per department for the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships. Read More

University News and Communications publishes "VUToday," a compilation of Vanderbilt mentions in the media, each weekday. Read a selection of Vanderbilt news stories for the week of June 5. Read More

For well over a century, innovations by America’s research universities have made America stronger, writes Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in 'The Hill.' Read More

Vanderbilt investigators report that dysregulation of certain immune cells in the intestines may lead to inflammation and disease. Read More

Your family may be eligible to participate in a research study at Vanderbilt University that aims to help parents and children regarding the effects of stress. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) has been chosen to be a part of the newly formed Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education (Kern Institute), a national initiative to transform medical education across the continuum from pre-medical school to physician practice. Read More

Having a child born without an external ear or ear canal can be a scary and confusing experience for parents, and finding medical care for the rare condition has meant having to travel to several distant medical centers for treatment options. Read More

This summer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will be the site for two internship programs geared to connect diverse students interested in health care. Read More