Year: 2021

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has formally recommended two changes that will nearly double the number of people eligible for lung cancer screening by lowering the age from 55 to 50 and reducing the number of smoking history pack years from 30 to 20. Read More

Jonathan Metzl, director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society, will deliver the next lecture in Vanderbilt Law School’s Dean’s Lecture Series on Race and Discrimination. The online event will be Thursday, March 25, beginning at noon CT. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center will welcome Jonathan Jackson, founder and executive director of the Community Access, Recruitment and Engagement Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, as its next speaker for the 2020-21 Kennedy Center Lectures on Development and Developmental Disabilities.  Read More

Vanderbilt condemns racism and expressions of hate, bias and discrimination in all forms. The university recognizes how recent violent attacks on Asians and Asian Americans, including the horrific shootings in Atlanta this week, have deeply affected members of our community. Read More

Associate Professor Debbie Arnow, DNP’11, MSN’96, has been selected as the new academic director for the Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty in the master of science in nursing program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Read More

The latest numbers from Vanderbilt's COVID-19 public dashboard, details regarding summer session, and the continuation of health and safety protocols through summer 2021 are included in this week's Return to Campus update. Read More

The latest numbers from Vanderbilt's COVID-19 public dashboard, details regarding summer session, and the continuation of health and safety protocols through summer 2021 are included in this week's Return to Campus update. Read More

The latest numbers from Vanderbilt's COVID-19 public dashboard and the continuation of health and safety protocols through summer 2021 are included in this week's Return to Campus update. Read More

The latest numbers from Vanderbilt's COVID-19 public dashboard, details regarding summer session, and the continuation of health and safety protocols through summer 2021 are included in this week's Return to Campus update. Read More

The latest numbers from Vanderbilt's COVID-19 public dashboard, details regarding summer session, and the continuation of health and safety protocols through summer 2021 are included in this week's Return to Campus update. Read More

The remarkable success of the COVID-19 vaccines began in a Vanderbilt lab decades ago, with the groundbreaking research of alumnus Dr. Barney Graham. Read More

The past year has brought out the best in many of us, requiring the Vanderbilt community to navigate challenges while growing together in ways it never could have imagined before, writes Chancellor Daniel Diermeier in a message to the university community. Read More

Legislative effectiveness scores are at the core of the research conducted at the Center for Effective Lawmaking, co-directed by Vanderbilt‘s Alan Wiseman. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., along with Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and retired Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., were the most effective Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the recently completed 116th Congress, according to new research from the center. Read More

The Office of Faculty Affairs has redesigned its faculty development webpage to share the full scope of resources available for faculty at Vanderbilt. The redesigned webpage convenes many resources in one place, allowing faculty to find the support they need to be successful in their teaching, scholarship and service activities. Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology’s 500th seminar speaker will be award-winning biochemist, inventor and educator Michael Marletta. His talk will take place on Wednesday, March 24, at 12:15 p.m. CT, when he will discuss the vitality and toxicity of nitric oxide in the body. Read More

Ana Arruda, a research specialist at the Harvard University School of Public Health, will discuss “Interorganelle Communication in Metabolic Health and Disease” on Tuesday, March 30, at 4 p.m. CT via Zoom. The Discovery Sciences Emerging Scholars Lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Read More

Pod Talks @Vandy, a new series discussing popular podcasts, will launch on Wednesday, March 24, with a discussion about rehumanizing the workplace and harnessing the power of social recognition. Krystal Clark and Krista Vaught from HR’s Employee Learning and Engagement team will host the discussion from 2 to 3 p.m. CT. Read More

Vanderbilt’s University Staff Advisory Council partnered with Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee in February to raise $5,335 and provide more than 21,000 meals to community members in need across the region. Read More

Since the inception of the Vanderbilt I-Corps Site Program just three years ago, more than 20 teams of VU innovators have been accepted into the National Science Foundation’s prestigious National I-Corps Program, turning their STEM ideas and research into novel inventions that improve health care, strengthen cybersecurity, produce clean energy, support people battling drug abuse and mental health disorders and more. Read More

Sixteen students and recent alumni from Vanderbilt University have been awarded Fulbright awards for the 2020-21 academic year. In addition, Vanderbilt is among the U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most Fulbright U.S. students for 2020-21. Read More