Legal academy needs to embrace complexity science: Ruhl
Law professor J.B. Ruhl says legal scholars should embrace a research approach that analyzes how the relationship between various parts of a system influence its behavior. Read More
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Update on latest faculty unionization efforts; town hall today
Read about the latest developments in efforts to unionize certain non-tenure track faculty at Vanderbilt. In addition, the Faculty Senate will host a town hall meeting to discuss faculty unionization from 3 to 5 p.m. March 30 at the Law School’s Flynn Auditorium. Read More
Clinical trial to assess shoulder pain treatments
Nitin Jain, M.D., MSPH, associate professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics, has been awarded a $7.5 million contract to determine whether surgery or non-operative therapy works better for a common age-related injury that costs the health care systems billions of dollars — rotator cuff tears. Read More
NFL names Sills as league’s first-ever chief medical officer
Vanderbilt’s Allen Sills, M.D., has been chosen by the National Football League (NFL) to be its chief medical officer, a newly created position. Read More
Horn to lead lung cancer combination therapy trial
Leora Horn, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of Medicine and clinical director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been selected to lead a clinical research trial of combination therapy using two targeted drugs for the treatment of a specific form of lung cancer. Read More
Penson to chair urology association’s science, quality council
David Penson, M.D., MPH, Paul V. Hamilton, M.D., and Virginia E. Howd Professor of Urologic Oncology and chair of the Department of Urologic Surgery, has been selected to chair the American Urological Association (AUA) Science & Quality Council, according to an announcement from the AUA Board of Directors. Read More
Research support
DS Services of America Inc. recently presented a $100,000 gift to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) to support breast cancer research. Read More
Office provides enterprise-wide project management services
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has an office to support and provide consulting on project management best practices, tools and processes for projects across the Medical Center. Read More
Molecular motors expert Spudich set for next Discovery Lecture
James Spudich, Ph.D., renowned for his studies of proteins that function as molecular motors, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, April 6. Read More
Applied Clinical Informatics MS program accepting applications
The Master of Science in Applied Clinical Informatics program (MSACI) is now accepting applications for fall 2017. Read More
Symposium on modeling immunity set for April 27
The 2017 Vanderbilt Symposium on Modeling Immunity will be held from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27, in room 1220 MRB III. Read More
VPH’s Jarosemich always ready to lend a helping hand
Laura Jarosemich, MSN, R.N., is always teaching. It’s the role she had as a nurse educator, as an instructor at Nashville State Community College and now as a nurse at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH), both to patients and fellow nurses. Read More
Organ donation awareness event set for April 6
On Dec. 11, 2015, Jamie Heard woke up earlier than usual. She said she went through her normal routine, which included morning prayers. Read More
Birthday bash celebrates first year of Seacrest Studios
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt celebrated the first birthday of its Seacrest Studios at an event on Tuesday, March 21. Read More
Nanobeacon lights up colon tumors
A novel fluorescent nanobeacon can distinguish normal from diseased colon tissue, potentially offering advantages for colorectal cancer screening. Read More
Vanderbilt Police offers tips for preventing residential crime
Leaving the windows and doors of residences unsecured, whether to enjoy the warmer weather or to run a short errand, can lead to crimes of opportunity. Vanderbilt University Police Department offers the following reminders to prevent residential crime. Read More
Bowling headed to NCAA championships
Vanderbilt has been selected to participate in the 2017 NCAA Bowling Championship April 13-15 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The berth in the eight-team championship field marks the 12th consecutive year the Commodores have earned an invitation. Read More
VINSE outreach program reaches milestone
The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering recently hosted its 100th group of Middle Tennessee high school students for a daylong field trip to the VINSE laboratories, giving the students hands-on experience in science and technology. Read More
State commends tennessine discoverers
On March 27, Tennessee state Sen. Ken Yager presented a resolution commending physicists from Vanderbilt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville for discovering a new element and naming it tennessine. Read More
Paper 1180 forms phased out by May 1 ahead of SkyVU transition
The departments of Vanderbilt Business Services are getting ready for the SkyVU takeoff. To better serve you—and to prepare for the transition to SkyVU—paper 1180 forms will not be accepted at Business Services departments for point-of-sale purchases after May 1, 2017. Read More
