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Children’s Hospital expansion effort receives significant support from CMA

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will receive significant philanthropic support through a $3 million gift from the Country Music Association, Vanderbilt University Medical Center leaders, event host Kix Brooks and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum announced Tuesday. Read More

New faculty: Joe Fishman studies law at the intersection of entertainment, technology

Intellectual property law is undergoing enormous shifts, with the creative community and attorneys striving to catch up to the digital revolution. New Assistant Professor of Law Joe Fishman says this "keeps things exciting and fresh.” Read More

New ‘geospeedometer’ confirms super-eruptions have a short fuse

A new "geospeedometer" that can measure the amount of time between the formation of an explosive magma melt and an eruption confirms that the process took less than 500 years in several ancient super-eruptions. Read More

New faculty: Jennifer Trueblood uses math to predict complex decision-making

Jennifer Trueblood is a mathematical psychologist who develops dynamic and probabilistic models using Bayesian statistical methods to explain complex decisions. Read More

‘Care of People in War and Conflict’ topic of Nov. 2 lecture

Please join us to hear Kaz de Jong address caring for people traumatized by war and conflict. A psychologist with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), he will provide an overview of MSF’s 20 years in the field offering mental health services, citing the efforts and challenges to combining science and humanitarian action in extreme and complex settings. Read More

Reminder: Faculty Senate town hall on Vanderbilt reorganization is Oct. 30

The Faculty Senate, in partnership with Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine Jeff Balser, will host a second town hall meeting on the VU-VUMC reorganization Friday, Oct. 30. Read More

A bundle, a dashboard and lasting pneumonia reduction

A “bundle” of electronically implemented care guidelines reduced intensive care unit patient complications related to mechanical ventilation. Read More

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, 82nd attorney general of the United States, to speak at Vanderbilt Nov. 6

Eric Holder, attorney general of the United States from 2009 to April 2015, will deliver a talk on Friday, Nov. 6, as part of the 2015-16 Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture Series. Read More

Class of 2019: By the numbers

Vanderbilt's first-year students are an impressive group. Get to know the Class of 2019 by the numbers. Read More

Working group-designed model for pre-award grant contract support and director search launched

A university working group has established the model for a new office that will provide pre-award support for university faculty grant and contract proposals to external funding agencies following the VU-VUMC reorganization. A search for the new office's director also has been launched. Read More

Two Ebola Survivors’ Blood Could Help Vanderbilt Researchers Find A Treatment

Vanderbilt researchers could be one step closer to finding a way to fight the deadly Ebola virus – thanks to two Ebola victims from… Read More

Study estimates cost of regulatory compliance at 13 colleges and universities

A new study involving 13 colleges and universities across the nation provides one of the first broad reviews of the amount of time and money higher education institutions devote each year to complying with federal regulations. Read More

St. Jude researcher presents seminar Nov. 6

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's Stacey Ogden presents a seminar Nov. 6. Read More

Mona Frederick named UNC Distinguished Alumna

Mona Frederick, who oversaw the creation of a state-of-the-art digital archive at Vanderbilt related to Robert Penn Warren and the civil rights movement, has been named a 2015 Distinguished Alumna at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read More

VUCast: How Ebola survivors are teaming with Vanderbilt to fight the deadly virus

In the latest VUCast: Hear from Ebola survivors helping a Vanderbilt researcher fight the deadly virus; see the high-tech way an art exhibit is bringing VU students face to face with people across the world; and find out which country music star shot his latest video with Mr. Commodore! Watch now. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering MOOC leads talented Indian student to Nashville

A Coursera student in India’s round trip of 16,716 miles began with an invitation to spend a summer in Nashville, Tennessee, as a computer science intern at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Our favorite #vandygram photos of the week

Share your photos of campus wildlife and other Vanderbilt-related images by tagging them #vandygram. Read More

Open Enrollment begins; Health and Benefits Fairs set for this week

Open Enrollment has begun, and two Health and Benefits Fairs have been scheduled to help guide employees through the process. Read More

Go for the Gold deadline is Oct. 31

The Go for the Gold deadline is fast approaching. Faculty and staff can log in to the Health Plus Health Guide to complete all three steps by Oct. 31. Read More

Halloween-themed Vandy Walks set for Oct. 29

Join Steve Baskauf, senior lecturer in biological sciences, for a special Halloween-themed Vandy Walks, and learn all about some of the most haunting and legendary tales of Vanderbilt. Read More