Communications And Marketing

The Office of Community, Neighborhood & Government Relations and the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation and Operational Resiliency (VECTOR) invite the Vanderbilt community to attend a lunch-and-learn panel discussion about the future landscape of Nashville as well as the impact of mobility on land use at Vanderbilt. Read More

“Managing Conflict with Assertiveness” will feature Stephanie Dean, assistant manager of Work/Life Connections–EAP, from noon to 1 p.m. April 3 in Sarratt 216/220. Read More

The Blair School of Music invites students in grades 1-12 to apply and audition for merit and need-based scholarships for private lesson instruction during the 2018-19 academic year. Read More

Vanderbilt University alumna Lisa Muloma was a finalist for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, a new prestigious scholarship that fully funds graduate-level work in any field at Stanford University. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Division of Communications publishes “VUToday,” a compilation of Vanderbilt mentions in the media, three times per week. Read a selection of Vanderbilt news stories for the week of Feb. 26. Read More

Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt will be closed Sunday, March 18, due to the store’s annual inventory count. The store will re-open at 8 a.m. Monday, March 19. Read More

When George Matouk graduated from Vanderbilt in 1991, the forces of globalization were wreaking havoc on American manufacturing by replacing items once made domestically with a flood of low-cost imports. For Matouk, this was no mere point of curiosity. The table linens business run by his father—and founded… Read More

For Caleb Feiring, riding his bike across the country on a quest to tell the stories of America’s family farmers isn’t without its hazards. Consider the night he bedded down in a Midwestern barn with a nocturnal rooster. “He was pretty unpopular among the whole barn,”… Read More

Vanderbilt (VU + VUMC, collaboratively) anticipates the opportunity to choose one nominee for the V Foundation 2018 Translational Research Award. Read More

The Vanderbilt Language Development Lab is seeking the participation of parents and their infants 11 to 12.5 months of age in studies on language development. Read More

Researchers are seeking 6- to 12-month-old infants for research studies on music and autism. Read More

Alan Krueger, the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and current vice president of the American Economic Association, will discuss "Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music” on Monday, March 26. Read More

The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center hosts its ninth annual Elder Care Fair on Wednesday, March 14, providing an excellent opportunity to obtain helpful information about available community resources and services for seniors and adult caregivers. Read More

The Vanderbilt Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab is seeking participants age 8 to 20 for a research study focusing on reading difficulties and neurofibromatosis. Read More

Phillip McGloin, a College of Arts and Science senior from Washington, D.C., has been named to the 2018-19 class of Luce Scholars. McGloin will gain new perspectives through immersive living and working experiences in Asia during the next year. Read More

For years, the slow food movement has made the case for meals as a catalyst for community: the right ingredients plus sufficient time equals something much greater than the sum of its parts. The same equation holds true when it comes to educating our nation's future citizens, writes Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in this op-ed on CNN.com. Read More

An influenza diagnosis for people 65 and older is serious. Up to 85 percent of influenza-related deaths occur in older adults, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention reports. Read More

Tennessee Titans All-Pro defensive tackle Jurrell Casey visited with patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt recently. Read More

The Tennessee Ambulance Service Association (TASA) has named Vanderbilt LifeFlight’s Tim Bell the Larry Griffin Paramedic of the Year. Read More

Oregon Health and Sciences University’s Eric Gouaux, PhD, discussed mechanisms of signal transduction and clearance at the chemical synapses of the brain during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. Read More