Year: 2017

As the next in a series of student profiles related to Opportunity Vanderbilt, Christopher Huerta represents just one of the nearly 9,000 students whose lives have been changed by this financial aid initiative. For more information on Opportunity Vanderbilt, visit vu.edu/oppvu. If it hadn’t been for… Read More

Vanderbilt news stories for the week of March 13 include a physics professor's theory about time travel and the Large Hadron Collider. It's not just science fiction. Read More

Vanderbilt Football hosts a spring showcase March 25—free for all fans—including a traditional stadium practice, scrimmage, food and family fun. Read More

The Faculty Senate will host a town hall meeting March 30 to discuss faculty unionization efforts at Vanderbilt. Read More

A gluten-free diet is not a weight-loss solution. Here's what it treats and how. Read More

An estimated 481 music-lovers filled Ingram Hall on March 15 for the Employee Appreciation concert featuring Grammy-winning Roomful of Teeth. Read More

On Friday, March 17, 2017, 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 March 17, 2017. Read More

The Embedded Psyche: The Anthropocene, Postgenomics and the Microbiome– Margaret Lock, the Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, delivered het keynote lecture on Friday, March 17 for the conference organized by Medicine Health and Society, entitled “The Global Psyche: Experiments in Ethics, Politics and… Read More

Vanderbilt’s eighth cohort of Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows will visit the Great Smoky Mountains and meet with colleagues at Vol State. Read More

The 1095-C form is now available to download on your My VU Benefits account. Read More

The Research IT Special Project Working Group will advance the efforts of the Provost’s Initiative to Enhance Research and Scholarship, or PIERS. Read More

Olivier Blanchard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics will deliver the David Stein Lecture in Economics, "Questioning the Natural Unemployment Rate Hypothesis," on Thursday, March 30. Read More

Celebrate National Nutrition Month 2017 by putting your best fork forward! Every food choice we make is an opportunity to move toward a healthy eating pattern. Get involved in these events. Read More

The Scope Out Colon Health Expo is scheduled for Tuesday, March 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visit the expo in the Light Hall North Lobby to learn more about prevention, screenings and more. Read More

Alumna Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code, will discuss the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields with Vanderbilt professors Alyssa Hasty, Bonnie Miller and Nicole Joseph. Read More

Ph.D.-turned-entrepreneur Jerry Wilmink — founder and CEO of WiseWear Corp., a digital health company that develops wearable technology products for fitness and medical applications — will deliver the School of Engineering's Chambers Family Entrepreneurship Lecture on April 4. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered that activated epidermal growth factor receptor may be a target for therapies to prevent colorectal cancer development. Read More

A panel of Peabody researchers will discuss the impact of the new administration from a research perspective. Read More

Watch video of ‘Virtuous Non-knowing’ by Allan Young, Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, gave his keynote lecture on Thursday, March 16 for the conference organized by Medicine, Health and Society, entitled “The Global Psyche: Experiments in Ethics, Politics and Technoscience.” The talk was… Read More

The AAU has prepared a helpful FAQ for anyone seeking to understand facilities and administrative costs (also known as "indirect costs") associated with federally funded research. Read More