Year: 2017

Vanderbilt’s Spring Faculty Assembly is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Thursday, April 6, in Langford Auditorium. All faculty are encouraged to attend. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will give his annual address and, along with Faculty SenateChair Charlene Dewey, present some of the university’s highest honors to faculty, including the … Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty and staff are eligible for a discount on tickets to select performances of two upcoming shows at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Read More

Work/Life Connections–EAP has produced a series of videos about mindfulness as a stress-reducer, featuring Linda Manning of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Department of Pastoral Care will host a community Seder on Monday, April 10. Read More

University research on autism and Vanderbilt's economic impact on Tennessee are among the national Vanderbilt news stories for the week of March 27. Read More

Vanderbilt law students were visited March 31 by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who urged them to fight for the uplifting of the middle class. Read More

For many alumni March brings fond memories of a transformational week spent on an Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip. Read More

Vanderbilt Travel offers exciting cultural and educational experiences in destinations around the world. Read More

Ben Friedman, BS’89, is performing the duties of administrator and undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) until a new presidential appointment is made for the organization. Read More

You’ve probably heard of it, but how often have you actually used it? The informational interview is a critical piece to your job search, and is one of the easiest ways to use Vanderbilt’s alumni network. Read More

In budding yeast, accumulation of a certain type of RNA in the nucleus increased life span, offering a new clue to longevity. Read More

Sociology lecturer Rosevelt Noble has been named director of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center and a faculty head on The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. Read More

Law professor J.B. Ruhl says legal scholars should embrace a research approach that analyzes how the relationship between various parts of a system influence its behavior. Read More

Read about the latest developments in efforts to unionize certain non-tenure track faculty at Vanderbilt. In addition, the Faculty Senate will host a town hall meeting to discuss faculty unionization from 3 to 5 p.m. March 30 at the Law School’s Flynn Auditorium. Read More

Nitin Jain, M.D., MSPH, associate professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics, has been awarded a $7.5 million contract to determine whether surgery or non-operative therapy works better for a common age-related injury that costs the health care systems billions of dollars — rotator cuff tears. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Allen Sills, M.D., has been chosen by the National Football League (NFL) to be its chief medical officer, a newly created position. Read More

Leora Horn, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of Medicine and clinical director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been selected to lead a clinical research trial of combination therapy using two targeted drugs for the treatment of a specific form of lung cancer. Read More

David Penson, M.D., MPH, Paul V. Hamilton, M.D., and Virginia E. Howd Professor of Urologic Oncology and chair of the Department of Urologic Surgery, has been selected to chair the American Urological Association (AUA) Science & Quality Council, according to an announcement from the AUA Board of Directors. Read More

DS Services of America Inc. recently presented a $100,000 gift to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) to support breast cancer research. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has an office to support and provide consulting on project management best practices, tools and processes for projects across the Medical Center. Read More