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Students network with alumni at Summer Opening Dores

(Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt students may be on summer break, but they haven’t stopped working. Many are taking advantage of time away from the classroom… Read More

Economist explains impacts of Senate health plan

Vanderbilt University economist Andrew Goodman-Bacon, who studies the long-term effects of public safety net programs like Medicaid, gives his take on the latest Senate health care proposal. Read More

New tools help surgeons find liver tumors, not nick blood vessels

The liver is a particularly squishy, slippery organ, prone to shifting both deadly tumors and life-preserving blood vessels by inches between the time they’re discovered on a CT scan and when the patient is lying on an operating room table. Vanderbilt University’s Michael Miga and his team have published the potential solution. Read More

TIPs funding awarded to 15 innovative interdisciplinary projects

Fifteen interdisciplinary concepts—from LGBT policies to the autism advantage to life at the cellular level—will be explored at Vanderbilt, thanks to the 2017 round of TIPs funding. Read More

In two years, TIPs awards have made significant impact

More than 250 faculty members and several hundred students are addressing a vast range of topics through the TIPs award program. TIPs projects have secured more than $12 million in external funding. Read More

‘Drive to 55’ is focus of new Vanderbilt research with UT-Knoxville

Researchers at Vanderbilt are partnering with colleagues at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to research the effectiveness of initiatives developed under the state’s “Drive to 55” campaign. Read More

Bell to retire from Vanderbilt Institutional Research Group July 31

Roberta Bell, who has led Vanderbilt’s institutional research arm since 2003, will retire from the university July 31. As executive director of the Vanderbilt Institutional Research Group, Bell has overseen the data-gathering and analysis efforts that help inform critical campus decision-making and planning. Read More

‘Dores at the Shores’: Get half-off day passes at Nashville Shores tomorrow

Enjoy half-off day passes at Nashville Shores this Friday, and have some fun in the sun with the Vanderbilt football team. Read More

Tomorrow: Employee Appreciation presents ‘Art in the Afternoon’

Vanderbilt University’s Employee Appreciation invites you to visit the Fine Arts Gallery at Cohen Memorial Hall for the "Art in the Afternoon" event July 18. Read More

VU’s Osher Lifelong Learning launches partnership with Fisk

For the first time, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt is offering a series of classes taught by Fisk University faculty on the Fisk campus. Read More

Maymester course combines students’ creative research visions and multimedia analysis

Graduate students participated in the first-ever Vanderbilt Ph.D. program focusing on multimedia research and analysis during the four-week Creative Media Practice seminar. Read More

VUToday: Solving the problem of noisy hospitals in weekly roundup of VU news stories

University News and Communications publishes "VUToday," a compilation of Vanderbilt mentions in the media, each weekday. Read a selection of Vanderbilt news stories for the week of July 10. Read More

IdeaShare initiative inspires wide variety of creative solutions

Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. Read More

Lindsell named to key VICTR, IMPH and Biostatistics leadership roles

Christopher Lindsell, Ph.D., nationally known for building clinical, translational and emergency medicine research programs at the University of Cincinnati, has been named director of the Research Methods Program in the Vanderbilt Institute of Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR). Read More

Arteaga to direct UT Southwestern cancer center

Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D., director of the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies (C2T2), director of the Breast Cancer Research Program and associate director for Clinical Research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate dean of Oncology Programs at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Read More

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