Communications And Marketing

The rock band Imagine Dragons recently visited patients and families at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

The recent delivery of a giant military helicopter is the first step in creating a unique full-scale Vanderbilt engineering lab. Read More

Jim Mangiafico, PhD’96, is the winner of the “Markup of U.S. Legislation in Akoma Ntoso” challenge, conducted by the Library of Congress. The challenge, conducted at the request of the U.S. House of Representatives, will advance the exchange of legislative information worldwide. Read More

Roslyn Clark Artis, EdD’10, is the 13th president of Florida Memorial University. The appointment is historical for the university as Artist is the first woman president in its 135 years of operation. Read More

Bruce Heyman, BA’79, MBA’80, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the ambassador to Canada. Read More

Federal judges will reflect and learn at a seminar designed to help them meet the extraordinary demands, both personal and professional, of their work. The first Mid-Career Seminar for U.S. District Judges is set for the fall of 2014. The product of a partnership between the Federal Judicial Center (FJC)… Read More

Go behind the scenes with Vanderbilt Campus Dining and see how they feed thousands of people every day. Read More

Sheri Haun, MBA, director of the Office of the Health System Chief Executive Officer, has assumed the new role of associate vice president for Managed Care Contracting for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More

(photo by Steve Green) Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., of Yale University, discusses next-generation DNA sequencing’s role in discovering disease genes and pathways at his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. To see archived video of previous lectures, go to www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/discoveryseries. Read More

The next Bedside Matters, an hourlong, monthly rounds geared toward helping Vanderbilt University Medical Center health care providers deal with the social and emotional issues of caring for patients and families, will take place on Wednesday, March 19. Read More

Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2014. Watch Dean Mark Wait discuss Blair School history, what makes the ideal Blair student, the school's amazing alumni and the future of this unique institution. Read More

Tiffany Patton, BA’03, is the executive director of Girls on the Run Nashville, an after-school program that runs for 12-weeks each spring and fall, teaching girls how to form positive relationships and live active lives. Read More

Junior Aditya Karhade and his mentor, cardiologist Andre Churchwell. A new program dedicated to fostering meaningful relationships between Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering students and university alumni through academic, professional and personal life experiences is paying dividends for one such pairing. Launched last fall, the VUSE… Read More

Saturday’s Brain Blast event at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks, sponsored by the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, attracted 268 children and about 100 adults to free, hands-on activities. Read More

Nominations for this year’s Vanderbilt Prize Scholar — a singular honor for female graduate students in the biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt University — are now being accepted. The deadline is April 2. Read More

Ralf Habermann, M.D., leads a tour of Vanderbilt’s facilities for a group of physicians from Korea seeking to learn more about how long-term care issues are addressed in the United States. Read More

The pulmonary arterial hypertension knowledgebase (PAHKB), developed by Vanderbilt researchers, provides a useful tool for identifying PAH-related genes and signaling pathways relevant to pathogenesis. Read More

See how a discovery about mosquito sperm could fight deadly disease; learn where to click for the coolest original music created by Vanderbilt students; and tour the newest evolution of College Halls. All this and more in the latest VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. Read More

Joe Clement, BE’97, a senior engineer with Kansas City-based MRIGlobal, is helping develop a human-like robot designed to provide data on the effectiveness of protective military gear against exposure to dangerous chemicals. Read More

Westley Taylor, BA’11, is one of the 30 most creative people in advertising under the age of 30 according to Business Insider. Hailing the honorees as the “next generation of leaders,” the website developed the list on the basis of agency and peer nominations along with its own research… Read More