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American Laryngological Association honors VUMC’s Ossoff, Garrett

Two faculty members of the Vanderbilt Voice Center have won awards from the American Laryngological Association (ALA). Read More

University-wide limited submission opportunity: W.M. Keck Foundation

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate for the W.M. Keck Foundation Medical Research Program and one candidate for the Science and Engineering Program for 2015. Read More

May issue of provost’s ‘Open Dore’ newsletter now available

"During my end-of-the-academic-year conversations with faculty and staff, there was great interest in hearing more about the plans for university investments in research. As reflected in the Academic Strategic Plan, Vanderbilt and the Provost’s Office have a broad and inclusive vision of research," writes Provost Susan Wente in the May 2015 issue of "The Open Dore." Read More

‘Body Farm’ novelists to sign latest thriller at Barnes & Noble

"New York Times" bestselling authors Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, who write together under the name Jefferson Bass, will sign their latest thriller, "The Breaking Point," at 7 p.m. Monday, June 15 at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt. Read More

VU’s improved drought-measuring tool could help shape policy

A more specific drought-measuring formula created by a group of Vanderbilt University environmental engineers could have implications for emergency planning, federal relief payouts and drought mitigation efforts. Read More

McDonald elected to TMA board of trustees

Michel McDonald, M.D., MBA, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Dermatology, officially took office as chair of the board of trustees of the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) at the group’s annual convention, held last month at the Opryland Resort and Convention Center and attended by about 300 physicians and others in health care. Read More

Perry Wallace biography honored at RFK Book Awards

Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South was honored at the Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards held May 21 at the Newseum. Read More

VUMC Academic Enterprise Faculty Award winners announced

The 2015 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Academic Enterprise Faculty Awards, which were presented during the May 19 Spring Faculty meeting, included awards for Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Contributions to Research. Read More

Spring Faculty meeting explores VUMC’s future course

The financial reorganization and separation of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center into separate nonprofit entities remains on schedule to occur in early 2016. Read More

Independent school leaders convene for summit at Vanderbilt

Educators representing independent schools across the country gathered for an NAIS summit at Vanderbilt May 19-20. Read More

MNPS educators honored as Blue Ribbon Teachers

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos hosted a reception May 21 honoring 50 Metro Nashville Public Schools Blue Ribbon Teachers selected through a community-driven awards program. Read More

Free trade deals favored in Ecuador: LAPOP

More than half the population of Ecuador believe that free trade agreements are a good thing for the country, according to a LAPOP study from Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt Board of Trust member Judson Randolph has died

Judson Graves Randolph, a member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust for more than two decades and a longtime chief surgeon at Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., died May 17. Read More

Vanderbilt Family Night with the Nashville Symphony is June 4

The annual symphony concert for Vanderbilt employees and their families will take place June 4 at Centennial Park. Read More

Deciphering clues to prehistoric climate changes locked in cave deposits

Jessica Oster and her colleagues have shown that the analysis of a stalagmite from a cave in north east India can detect the link between El Nino conditions in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian monsoon. Read More

Our favorite tweets and photos of the week

One of the many great things that comes with winning a national championship is watching the excitement unfold on social media. Read More

Head Start turns 50 – and there’s a Vanderbilt connection

Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver launched the federal Head Start program a half-century ago, bringing early learning opportunities to more than 32 million needy children. None of it would have been possible without the woman whose work he modeled the program after: Peabody College's Susan Gray. Read More

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