Month: April 2019

Junior Andrew Harwell has been awarded a prestigious Udall Scholarship for his dedication to environmental conservation efforts locally and globally. He will join a national cohort of exceptional undergraduates working on environmental issues and policy and health issues related to Native American communities. Read More

On Friday, April 26, at 2:07 a.m., Vanderbilt University Public Safety was notified of an armed robbery that occurred in the shuttle lot near Natchez Trace. Read More

Qiangjun Zhou, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, will present "Molecular Mechanism of Neurotransmitter Release: Locked Until the Last Millisecond" on Tuesday, April 30, at 11 a.m. The talk will be in MRBIII, Room 3131. The event is hosted by the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Read More

Valentina Greco, professor of genetics at Yale University, will present "Principles of Tissue Dynamics and Function Captured by Live Imaging" on Monday, April 29, beginning at 12:15 p.m. The lectured will be in MRBIII, Room 1220. Read More

More than 100 people gathered at Rand Wall on Monday to honor the victims of last Sunday's terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. Read More

Get ready to be inspired by real-life Vanderbilt success stories. Health Plus has invited five Vanderbilt employees to share their successes with weight loss, healthy living, and working with a lifestyle coach. Read More

Join Vanderbilt in celebrating Global Employee Health and Fitness Month in May. Health Plus will offer Know Your Numbers stations throughout the month for staff to check blood pressure and BMI. Participants will be entered into a drawing for great prizes. Read More

The Regression Modeling Strategies (RMS) short course, taught by Dr. Frank Harrell, runs Tuesday, May 14, through Friday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily and is held in Vanderbilt's Alumni Hall, Room 201. This course is intended for statisticians and related quantitative researchers who want to learn some general model development strategies, including approaches to missing data imputation, data reduction, model validation, and relaxing linearity assumptions. Read More

Inspiration and innovation abounded as more than 70 teams of engineering seniors presented their final projects Monday. The annual Senior Design Day attracted hundreds of visitors from Vanderbilt and the Nashville community to the Student Life Center. Read More

An exhibit on the history of irises at Vanderbilt University and Peabody College is on display at Vanderbilt University’s Special Collections through July 2019. Read More

This year’s Employee Appreciation Picnic will include food trucks and fun new events, such as a baking contest and craft fair. The event is set for Tuesday, May 14, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Magnolia Lawn. Read More

Whether you’re a beginner or experienced scooter rider, do your part to keep the Vanderbilt campus safe by participating in a free class taught by Vanderbilt University Public Safety. All participants will receive a $5 ridership credit from Gotcha scooters to use following the class. Read More

New findings from an ongoing 45-year Vanderbilt study reveal that patterns found in test scores and a psychological assessment measuring the personal values of nearly 700 intellectually gifted adolescents were highly predictive of the distinct fields of eminence they would occupy by age 50. Read More

Vanderbilt political scientist Sharece Thrower was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and awarded $200,000 to support her research. Read More

Disability identity advocates say euphemisms for the word 'disability' diminish and erase disability from the picture. Read More

Germain Böer, professor of accounting, emeritus, who taught at the Owen Graduate School of Management for 41 years, died April 22. He was 81. An unwavering champion of entrepreneurship at Owen, Böer taught, advised and invested in generations of student entrepreneurs. Read More

Adam Habib, vice chancellor and principal of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, will join Jeff Balser, dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Edwin Trevathan, director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and Amos Christie Chair in Global Health, for a conversation on Thursday, May 2, on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may submit one proposal for the Edward Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant Program. The foundation supports early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease. Read More

Postdoctoral scholars Samantha Yohn and Anneke Sanders and ophthalmology professor Rebecca Sappington were honored by the Graduate School at the 13th Annual Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association Symposium on April 9. Read More

Resolutions have been approved by the Board of Trust, Faculty Senate, Vanderbilt Student Government, Alumni Board of Directors and the Tennessee General Assembly that commend Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos for his leadership and accomplishments as chancellor. Read More