Month: March 2019

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Monday’s weekly seminars are on a cutting-edge topics in cell or developmental biology, as well as stem cell and epithelial biology. Read More

Vanderbilt Child and Family Center will be hosting Emily Harlan from Home Instead Senior Care at the next caregiver support group on Wednesday, March 13 from 12 p.m. -1 p.m. in Light Hall room 431.  Read More

The Vanderbilt community is invited to attend a Women's History Month kickoff event at Sarratt Promenade on March 11 featuring food, music, trivia, prizes and more, and the university will host a full calendar of events, film screenings, interactive workshops, lectures and panel discussions throughout March. Read More

Attorney Charlie Battle will share the inside story of how Atlanta became the first Southern U.S. city to host the Olympics in his March 12 talk, “The World Came to Atlanta; And What it Left Behind.” Read More

The Provost’s Steering Committee for Initiatives Focusing on the Status of Women has established four subcommittees to focus on key thematic pillars: institutionalized professional practice; campus climate; pay equity; and parental leave, childcare and family-friendly policies. Read More

Vanderbilt neuroscientist James R. Booth is making available the largest known neuroimaging dataset on math development. His goal is to support the work of other researchers working to understand how arithmetic skills develop in childhood. Read More

C. Elton Hinshaw, an emeritus professor of economics at Vanderbilt who is remembered for his distinguished service to the university, died Feb. 24 in Nashville. He was 82. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may choose one nominee for the V Foundation 2019 Translational Cancer Research Grant Program. The Translational Research award is a $600,000 grant awarded in three annual installments of $200,000. Indirect costs up to a maximum of 10 percent are permitted (total costs, including indirects, must not exceed $600,000.) Read More

Kevin R. Ward, executive director, Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC), is the featured speaker for the Enabling Innovation Initiative Seminar on Friday, March 15 at 3:00 p.m. in 202 Light Hall.  Read More

The Program in Jewish Studies presents Art is My Weapon, a performance/lecture from David Shneer of the University of Colorado and singer Jewlia Eisenberg. Read More

Cecelia Tichi, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and professor of American studies, will discuss the many rules for making it into the top tier of late-19th century high society during a reading and discussion of her book "What Would Mrs. Astor Do?" March 13 in the Vanderbilt Library's Special Collections. Read More

Public policies rooted in racial resentment can carry grave consequences for health and well-being, according to new research by Vanderbilt psychiatrist and sociologist Jonathan Metzl. Read More

The eighth annual Advanced Imaging Mass Spectrometry laboratory course is scheduled for April 9–12 at Vanderbilt University. This is a unique educational opportunity designed to teach the procedures of MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry. The format includes both lectures and hands-on workshops with time dedicated to on-site demos from instrument vendors.  Read More

An enthusiastic and energetic crowd came out for the Employee Appreciation pre-game Fan Fest on Sunday, March 3, prior to the Vanderbilt women’s basketball game against the Florida Gators. Read More

Antoinette Hicks, the morning supervisor at Rand Dining Center, says Campus Dining provides sustenance in more ways than one. Read More

The Rev. Amy Steele, assistant dean for student life at Vanderbilt Divinity School, will discuss single parenthood at the next meeting of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center’s Parenting Group. Read More

Menachem Elimelech, an internationally recognized scholar of membrane-based technologies for next-generation desalination and water purification, will deliver the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture on March 13. Read More

Looking for a summer job on campus? Events at Vanderbilt is now accepting applications for summer positions.  Read More

Vanderbilt University Press is holding a spring sale during March, to celebrate the new shopping cart feature of their website. All books are 40 percent off. Read More