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Discounted football season tickets now available for Vanderbilt employees

The Commodores are coming off an historic nine-win season that saw them capture the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl. They will play in front of their home fans seven times in 2013. Read More

Move more with these Vanderbilt resources

Being physically active can give you energy, relieve stress and improve health. Find ways to move more during your day. (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt offers… Read More

‘Little Boxes’ on display at Sarratt Gallery

(photo by Vicky Pierce) “Little Boxes: Explorations on a Simple Form” is on display at the Sarratt Student Center’s Sarratt Gallery through Aug. 9. Read More

VU Stroke Center attains new level of certification

The Vanderbilt Stroke and Cerebrovascular Service has received advanced certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, one of only four in Tennessee. Read More

Vanderbilt to launch new flexible paid time off system for employees

In order to more effectively meet the broadly diverse work/life needs across employees’ life phases, Vanderbilt is moving to a modernized benefits plan called flexPTO. Read More

Vanderbilt names Anders Hall vice chancellor for investments and chief investment officer

Anders W. Hall will start Sept. 3 as the new vice chancellor for investments and chief investment officer at Vanderbilt. Read More

Elizabeth Meadows named head of Curb Scholars program

The Curb Scholars Program and the Creative Campus initiative at Vanderbilt have a new director, Elizabeth Meadows. Read More

Stock up on Vanderbilt gear during Costco special shopping weekend

Tailgating season is just around the corner, and you can stock up now on Vanderbilt gear at Costco’s West Nashville location and during a special shopping event Aug. 2-4. Read More

Getting ready to use the new travel system: Step 2 — Complete your personal profile

All Vanderbilt business travelers, travel assistants and expense report delegates must complete profiles in the new travel system online. Read More

A Need for Speed: This finance professor is also a competitive water skiier

Growing up in Bogotá, Colombia, Miguel Palacios never set out to be a competitive water-skier. But Columbia’s warm, year-round climate makes water activities popular. One… Read More

Change and Continuity: Kathy Hoover-Dempsey looks back over 40 years at Peabody

“I have seen many wonderful changes at Peabody during my tenure, but thankfully there are key core values that have not changed,” says Kathy Hoover-Dempsey. Read More

Be a ‘First Friend’ and explore the cultures of the world

First Friends connects Vanderbilt's international students with Americans for friendship and cross-cultural exchange. Read More

Vanderbilt Nutrition and Diet Assessment Core established

The Vanderbilt Nutrition and Diet Assessment Core has been established to facilitate all types of human research. Read More

In new Frist exhibition, geometric shapes express cultural patterns

The works of former Vanderbilt art professor Amelia Winger-Bearskin will be part of the new exhibit 'Abstractometry' at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Read More

Our favorite images of the week, July 12-19

There are so many great images to choose from this week - we really appreciate all the love! Share your images with us by tagging them #vandygram. Read More

Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal

An innovative wafer inspection tool developed by a team of Vanderbilt professors and engineers has been licensed exclusively to startup company Femtometrix. Read More

Summer interns produce aids for amateur inventors

Seven Nashville high school students spent their summer working on introductory manuals for a new suite of software developed at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems to democratize the vehicle design process. Read More

Baby’s life-changing surgery, before birth

Vanderbilt’s Junior League Fetal Center is offering ground-breaking treatments and surgeries in the hopes of providing unborn babies the best start to life. Vanderbilt’s Barb… Read More

Microbes can influence evolution of their hosts

A new study provides the first direct evidence that microbes can contribute to the origin of new species by reducing the viability of hybrids produced between males and females of different species. Read More

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

Dear Colleagues, Openness and transparency are key elements of our culture. My goal in these regular, system-wide communications is to provide you with facts. Read More