Communications And Marketing

Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have published research regarding an important feature of colorectal cancer (CRC) that could eventually lead to the development of non-invasive means of monitoring cancer progression. After lung cancer, CRC is the second-most lethal cancer in the United States. Read More

Noted anesthesiologist, neuroscientist and statistician Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D., of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, discussed the mysteries of anesthesia during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. Read More

Vanderbilt will conduct a test of the VUMC Notification System at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 22. Read More

It’s important to keep your information in C2HR up to date so you don’t miss out on news from Human Resources and its benefits providers. Read More

Duke University’s Norman Wirzba, Ph.D., left, talks with Vanderbilt’s Douglas Heimburger, M.D., M.S., following Wirzba’s recent lecture on the importance of sustainable agriculture and its impact on population health. Read More

The Vanderbilt Child & Family Center will host its 10th annual Summer Camp Fair Friday, Feb. 26. Read More

Watch video of The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt’s winter class – “Climate Change Literature: A New Fictional Genre about a Real Problem” on February 11th with Ed Rubin. Read More

Patients from Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt joined Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton recently for a free skate-a-thon at Bridgestone Winter Park outdoor ice rink. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Joshua Denny, M.D., M.S., associate professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine and a recognized leader in the national Precision Medicine Initiative, delivered last week’s Flexner Discovery Lecture. Read More

Statistician Roderick Little, Ph.D., the Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, discussed his work analyzing data sets with missing values during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. Read More

Everyone knows someone with breast cancer who is going through toxic chemotherapy. But what if you could find out within three days, instead of months, what chemo works best on your tumor? A Vanderbilt researcher is developing a new ‘tumor- in-a-dish’ technique that may do just that. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering alumni Kendall Card and Perry E. Wallace Jr. will be inducted into the School of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni at a special event in April. S. Shankar Sastry will be inducted as a member of the school’s Circle of Distinguished Friends. Read More

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered a way to overcome the resistance of some lung cancers to certain targeted therapies, which could lead to more effective treatments for lung cancer patients. Read More

After wowing 2016 Consumer Electronics Show visitors and appearing in a slew of tech news articles,WiseWear soon will be recognized for what it is: a fitness monitoring, security alert and business management system encased in a piece of art. Jerry Wilmink [BE’02, MS’04, PhD’07] designed the unique technology that allows… Read More

Vanderbilt investigators are exploring the shape changes in a multidrug transporter to understand the mechanisms of antibacterial resistance. Read More

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt patient Kael Adams was named the official "stick kid" of the National Hockey League (NHL) All-Star competition held in Nashville last weekend. Read More

The 55th annual Christmas Village, organized by the Nashville Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club, raised a record amount to benefit the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center and other Pi Beta Phi philanthropies. Read More

Six years ago, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) established itself as a pioneer in health care social media when it became one of the first hospitals or health systems with a social media policy to guide its faculty and staff. Read More

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel advisory for visitors to parts of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Samoa and Cape Verde where Zika virus transmission is ongoing. Read More

Meet Megan Ward: the actress behind Vanderbilt Off-Broadway’s Elle Woods. Well known on campus as an improv comedian, Pi Phi President and VP of the Business Careers and Entertainment Club, she dons a blonde ‘do and pink heels for her starring performance this weekend. Amidst a crazy rehearsal schedule, the… Read More