Vanderbilt University

Alumni Association Board Expands Awards

The Vanderbilt Alumni Association is seeking nominations not only for the Distinguished Alumni Award but also for five additional awards. Read More

Alumna Patton is executive director of Girls on the Run Nashville

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… Read More

Vanderbilt recognized for innovations in overcoming health care disparities

The National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit association of nearly 400 large U.S. employers, has selected Vanderbilt University as a winner of an Innovation in Reducing Health Care Disparities Award. Read More

Passages: Walter Paul Gibson Jr., BA’50 | Mary Jane Knowles Gibson, MA’57

After 56 years of marriage, Walter Paul Gibson Jr. and Mary Jane Knowles Gibson died just three weeks apart last summer. Read More

Passages: F. Sheldon Hackney, BA’55

F. Sheldon Hackney served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and as president of both the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University in New Orleans. Read More

Passages: Randall M. Falk, MA’66, DDiv’69

Rabbi Randall M. Falk was at the forefront of religious leadership in Nashville and made significant contributions to Jewish life, the civil rights struggle, community-building among the city’s increasingly diverse population, and to Jewish–Christian relations. Read More

Passages: Ellen Fanning

Ellen Fanning joined Vanderbilt’s faculty in 1995 and served as chair of the Department of Molecular Biology from 1999 to 2002. Read More

Scary Smart

Gifted children are likely to be the next generation’s innovators and leaders—and yet, the exceptionally smart are often invisible in the classroom, lacking the curricula, teacher input and external motivation to reach full potential. Read More

Peabody College hosts ‘summer school’ for educators

Higher education and K-12 professionals will converge on the Peabody campus for the annual Peabody Professional Institutes. Read More

Vanderbilt’s investment office announces three new hires

Shawn Goodman, Hunter McCrossin and Travis Shore have joined the Vanderbilt University investment office, all with the title of managing director, investments. Read More

Vanderbilt adopts new honor code statement for 10 schools

Vanderbilt has adopted a new statement of its honor code designed to continue the tradition of preserving and promoting academic integrity. Read More

Chew on This

Recent work has shown that in addition to the reduction in stomach size, many metabolic and hormonal changes likely underlie the beneficial effects of bariatric surgery. Read More

Killer Breaks Loose

Cancer researchers have been searching for biomarkers that indicate which patients should be treated aggressively and which patients can be followed through active surveillance. Now researchers at Vanderbilt and the University of Alberta in Canada have identified a biomarker for a cellular switch that accurately predicts which prostate cancer patients are likely to have their cancer recur or spread. Read More

Phony Wealth

Not enough has been done to protect the economy from the boom and bust cycles that brought the United States to the brink of disaster in 2008–09, says a Vanderbilt economist. Read More

Research Roundup

The iPad may hold the key to enabling children with autism spectrum disorders to express themselves through speech. | Children hospitalized for pneumonia have similar outcomes, including length of stay and costs, regardless of whether they are treated with “big gun” antibiotics or more narrowly focused antibiotics such as penicillin. | It’s time to drop the requirement that inventions be “useful” in order to merit a patent, says Sean B. Seymore. Read More