Tobacco Use in Asia Linked to Higher Risk of Death
Tobacco smoking has been linked to approximately 2 million deaths among adult men and women in Asia in recent years, according to a new study that predicts a rising death toll. Read More
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Images to Algorithms
Bennett Landman, whose research lies at the interface of medical imaging, signal processing and statistical inference, has been focusing on large-scale medical image processing. Read More
Building the World’s Largest Biomedical Informatics Enterprise
Biomedical informatics is a science that draws connections between data and medicine, whether those data concern diseases, health care processes or human biology in the form of genomics and proteomics. Everyone who studies health records has the same goal: more precise medicine, leading to improved patient outcomes. Read More
Informatics for the Classroom and the Operating Room
Using the EHR (electronic health record) and natural language processing, the School of Medicine keeps track of each student’s exposure to patient problems across the curricular spectrum, allowing the school to advance students on a more individualized basis. Read More
Parent Support Prompts Significant Challenge Gift
Parents showed support for their Vanderbilt students like never before in the 2014 academic year, and as a result, a single challenge gift of $200,000 benefited multiple academic and student-life programs across the university. Read More
CoRPs Volunteers Tell Vanderbilt’s Story
During the past two years, the number of Commodore Recruitment Programs (CoRPs) volunteers has more than doubled from 1,512 to 3,371 alumni. Read More
Obituary: Janice Feagin Britton, BSN’44, Nurse on Three Continents
Janice Feagin Britton of Spanish Fort, Alabama, died Feb. 20 at age 92 after a lifetime of service and adventure. Read More
Obituary: Walter R. Courtenay Jr., BA’56, ‘Mr. Snakehead’
Walter R. Courtenay Jr., of Gainesville, Florida, died Jan. 30 at age 80. He was a leading authority on invasive nonindigenous fish, particularly those introduced into the United States. Read More
Obituary: Cindy Zautcke, MEd’87, Advocate for At-Risk Students
Cindy Zautcke of Milwaukee died June 4 at age 51. In teaching a class of 16 Nashville junior-high students who had all failed eighth grade at least twice, she came to understand her calling as a teacher. Read More
Duncan McDougall, BA’83, One for the Books
Duncan McDougall spent part of his 20s guiding expeditions of the physical world—whitewater and backcountry trips in places like Alaska and New Zealand. Since 1998, however, he has been leading expeditions of another kind, guiding children on a journey to literacy. Read More
Guiding Spirit: Taylor Bruce, BA’04
Bruce decided to start his own series of field guides, called Wildsam, in 2012. The books are “packed with local lore, interviews, memoir, hand-drawn maps, personal essays and more,” according to the Wildsam website. Read More
Obituary: Todd Jackson, BA’96, EMBA’08, ‘We Have to Be the Change’
In 2003, Todd Jackson was diagnosed with a brain tumor that was surgically removed and followed by 30 doses of radiation therapy. Last year another cancer, this time a grade IV brain cancer, surfaced, and Jackson died June 9, 2014, at age 40 in Nashville. During the decade between diagnoses, he did his best to ensure that researchers have the resources to create innovative cancer therapies. Read More
Treatment Helps Frogs Fight Fungal Pathogen
Simple heat treatments may give the frog immune system a boost and help it fight off a deadly fungal pathogen, according to a new study published July 10 in the journal Nature. Read More
‘No Child Left Behind’ Getting a Bad Rap
The commonly held notion that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has eroded teacher job satisfaction and undermined job retention is off the mark, according to new Vanderbilt research. Read More
Research Roundup, Summer 2014
Private Property and Government Inaction | Probiotic Could Prevent Obesity | Freedom from Power Cords | Pickiness Doesn’t Always Pay Read More
Golf Teams Shine at NCAA Championships
The women’s golf team finished in a tie for 10th place at the NCAA Championship, while the men’s golf team finished in a tie for 16th. Read More
How does Open Enrollment affect couples working at Vanderbilt?
Today’s tip is a reminder that if both you and your spouse or same-sex domestic partner work at Vanderbilt, you have options when choosing your benefits during Open Enrollment. Read More
Negative political ads focus of October (Lunch) Box talk
A talk at the Nashville Public Library Oct. 1 will feature Vanderbilt's John Geer and spotlight research on negative political ads. Read More
Vanderbilt Divinity School Breakfast: Dean Emilie Townes
Watch video of Dean Emilie M. Townes lead an open forum, in which she speaks briefly about her continuing vision for Vanderbilt Divinity School. She also… Read More
Virtual conference EDUCAUSE 2014 open to Vanderbilt community
Vanderbilt IT, the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning and Vanderbilt School of Medicine will host the 2014 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference’s Virtual Conference Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 at several locations across campus and the medical center. Read More
