Month: January 2022

Stephanie Mahnke, a higher education professional with extensive experience serving the LGBTQIA+ community and marginalized students, has been named director of the K.C. Potter Center and LGBTQI Life at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology presents Dr. Lynmarie Thompson of the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday, Jan. 12. Thompson will discuss “NMR and Hydrogen Exchange of Chemoreceptor Complexes Suggest Signaling Occurs via Stabilization of a Disordered Domain.” Read More

Vanderbilt University has received a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help Vanderbilt Divinity School establish a project focused on educating pastoral leaders who are exploring alternative pathways in ministry, today and the future. Read More

Lars Plate wins $55,000 from Scialog to further collaborative research on cell behavior. Read More

Vanderbilt's Beckman Scholars Program in Chemistry and Biological Sciences has been awarded support by the Beckman Foundation for a fourth three-year term. Applications for scholar tenures beginning in May 2022 are currently open, with a deadline to apply on Tuesday, Jan. 18. Read More

Diana Graber, author of "Raising Humans in a Digital World" and the founder of Cyber Civics/Cyberwise, will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center’s Parenting Group. Read More

Make hydration a priority this year. Choosing sugar-sweetened, alcoholic or high-calorie coffee drinks over water throughout the day can cause you to consume excess calories with very little nutrition. Read More

Just when we began to take a breath from the delta surge, the omicron variant permeates the news. To ease anxiety brought on by the most recent COVID-19 surge, here are six tips to help you manage stress. Read More

Health Plus brings its on-site programming directly to your department in 2022. Participating in these programs will count toward your annual Go for the Gold credit in 2023. Read More

Vanderbilt's Mobile Vaccine Program grew quickly from a successful pilot in Nashville’s Mercury Courts community, where School of Nursing and VUMC have long run a clinic for homeless and low-income patients. The vaccine program has attracted participation from Vanderbilt faculty, staff and student volunteers as well as pharmacy students and faculty at nearby universities. Read More

The increased opportunities and new capabilities available to informaticists has led Vanderbilt School of Nursing to completely revise its nursing informatics master’s program. Graduate students study the latest techniques and tools for data analysis, detecting health patterns among large populations and exploring new developments in health technology. Read More

Jean Edward, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, will present “Integrating Medical, Financial and Legal Health Solutions to Positively Impact Social Determinants of Health” on Tuesday, Jan. 11, from noon to 1 p.m. CT. The winter 2022 Vanderbilt School of Nursing Dean’s Diversity Lecture will be conducted via Zoom. Read More

The Nashville area is under a winter storm warning until 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 6. The COVID-19 testing center at the David Williams II Recreation and Wellness Center will be CLOSED as of 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 6. Students, faculty and staff who were planning to be tested on Thursday should postpone until Sunday, Jan. 9 through Thursday, Jan. 13 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have revealed more of the inner-workings of a two-stage “molecular motor” in the cell membrane that enables bacteria to become resistant to drugs. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is teaming up with the Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee to host a virtual workshop on “Risks of Alzheimer's Disease in Adults with Down Syndrome and Introduction to a Research Study.” The discussion will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 25, from 2 to 3 p.m. CT. Read More

"Education Week" has released the 2022 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, an annual list of education researchers who have demonstrated the greatest influence over educational policy and practice. Six researchers from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development are among the 200 who made the rankings.  Read More

Martha A. Dawson, president of the National Black Nurses Association, will present the 21st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Monday, Jan. 17, from noon to 1 p.m. CT. Co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt School of Nursing and Vanderbilt School of Medicine, this year’s MLK Day lecture will be held virtually via Zoom. Read More

Vanderbilt's Coffee Equity Lab has launched the Coffee Equity Design Challenge, in which students and coffee professionals will team up to co-create meaningful innovations for a more equitable and sustainable coffee industry. Read More

The School of Medicine has launched a $5 million Dean’s Scholarship Challenge to help ensure that tomorrow’s leaders in medicine are educated at Vanderbilt. Through a combination of donor contributions and a university match, the school hopes to raise a total of $10 million. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Inclusive Book Group will meet online Wednesday, March 2, to discuss "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett. Read More