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Over 50? Let us schedule your colonoscopy

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, and the goal of the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Center is to encourage and help all Vanderbilt employees to schedule their colonoscopies. Read More

Julia Serano presents ‘Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive’ March 22

The 2016 Cuninggim Lecture on Women in Culture and Society is scheduled for March 22, when the Women's Center also will hand out its annual Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center Leadership Award, Mentoring Award, and the Mary Jane Werthan Award. Read More

Melanoma response to immune therapy

Melanoma-specific expression of a certain protein identifies tumors that are more responsive to an immune therapy. Read More

Healthy Eating at Work webinar March 16; Break Room Challenge March 23

Join Health Plus' celebration of National Nutrition Month, and make healthy eating the norm. Read More

Department of Medicine Mini-Research Retreat is March 12

The Department of Medicine's Mini-Research Retreat is Saturday, March 12, from 8 a.m. until noon in Light Hall 208. Read More

Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy,’ to sign latest book on campus March 31

Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt welcomes science educator, TV personality, comedian and political commentator Bill Nye to the store March 31 for a signing of his latest best-seller. Read More

Photos from the Arab Spring to support cross-cultural discussions at Vanderbilt

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce a recent gift from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation of two photographs by Shirin Neshat, which are intended to spark cross-cultural dialogue about international issues and religious and political divides and to facilitate collaboration between academic departments at the university and the gallery. Read More

Diverse perspectives on abstract art focus of exhibition March 17-May 26

“Close Readings: American Abstract Art from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection” will feature the unique interpretations of more than 35 faculty and students from disciplines across the university, providing fresh, new insights into how we look at art. Read More

Study reveals possible ‘dimmer switch’ drug for Rett syndrome

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have relieved symptoms in a mouse model of Rett syndrome with a drug-like compound that works like the dimmer switch in an electrical circuit. Read More

First VICC cancer patient treated with new immunotherapy

For the first time, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators have used a cancer patient’s own re-engineered immune cells to treat a form of blood cancer by stimulating the immune system. Read More

Study seeks to ease pediatric HIV infection rates in Africa

Mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, is still a major problem in resource-limited, rural areas of the world where health care providers are scarce. Read More

Making their day

Joe Don Rooney of the group Rascal Flatts came the closest to a hole-in-one at the inaugural Million Dollar Hole-in-One for Charity event at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Feb. 11 in California. Rooney chose Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt as the beneficiary of his $50,000 prize. Read More

Anesthesiology debuts new patient outcomes system

The Vanderbilt Anesthesiology and Perioperative Informatics Research (VAPIR) Division has launched a novel system that connects clinicians in the Department of Anesthesiology to their patients’ outcomes. Read More

Meeting highlights growth of VUMC’s social media efforts

Leaders of social media programs at 15 major hospitals and health systems gathered in Nashville last week as Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) hosted the “founders meeting” of a new national organization. Read More

Happy anniversary

A special event was held last week celebrating the 25th anniversary of Vanderbilt’s liver transplant program. Read More

Schizophrenia expert Coyle set for next Flexner Discovery Lecture

Joseph Coyle, M.D., an expert in the neurobiology of serious mental illness, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, March 10. Read More

Study finds health literacy efforts ease readmission rates

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston recently collaborated on a study analysis to determine the effect of a tailored, pharmacist-delivered health literacy intervention on unplanned hospital readmission or emergency department visit following discharge. Read More

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