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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center to hold free symposium on fragile X

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (Vanderbilt University) The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Fragile X Treatment Research Program will present information and current research on… Read More

Concussion testing for young athletes

The Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center is now offering pre-concussion baseline testing to all community recreational athletes, in advance of many high-impact seasonal sports resuming this fall. Read More

Retirement plan participants to receive ‘fee disclosure’ information

(iStockphoto) You may already know that fees and expenses vary between the retirement companies that offer investment funds to our employees. To help you… Read More

Doctors see rise in tick-borne illnesses and other insect-related infections

(Photo Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) This photograph depicts a dorsal view of a male cayenne tick, Amblyomma… Read More

Metro bike share program coming to campus; demonstration Aug. 1

(image courtesy of B-cycle) Nashville is expanding its bike-share program to include a fee-based, automated kiosk system called Nashville B-cycle, and two kiosks will… Read More

Staff member celebrates new citizenship, community found at Vanderbilt

Gerges Abdelmeseh (John Russell/Vanderbilt) April 19, 2007, is a date etched in Gerges Abdelmeseh’s memory. On that day more than five years ago, Gerges,… Read More

Our favorite tweets of the week, July 22-28

We love hearing from our fans, friends and followers, and we have some very vocal ones on Twitter. Below are just a few of our… Read More

MacAuthority offering big deals for Tax Free Weekend; pre-order now

MacAuthority is offering big deals to Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students during Tennessee’s Tax Free Weekend, Aug. 3-5. Deals include:… Read More

VUCast: Concussion Check

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast: Playing hard can lead to concussions. See a new way to keep your brain safety in check! Meet… Read More

Diane Sasson: “Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality”

Listen to an interview with Diane Sasson, Lecturer in Theology and Women, about her new book Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian… Read More

Domestic violence focus of faith leaders

Faith leaders seeking to learn more about issues surrounding and ending domestic violence are invited to an Aug. 6-7 institute co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality. Read More

Catch ‘The Nutty Professor’ at special rate through Aug. 5

(image courtesy of "The Nutty Professor"/TPAC) There’s still time to catch The Nutty Professor, a new musical directed by screen legend Jerry Lewis… Read More

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation adds new programs

Officially established on April 1, Vanderbilt’s new Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) has welcomed its first new faculty recruit and is establishing clinical and research programs. Read More

High school student speeds anti-obesity research at VU

A California high school student helped accelerate an anti-obesity drug discovery program at Vanderbilt University this summer — and provided the proof-of-principle for a new technique that could save the lab an estimated $250,000 in the process. Read More