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Summer doesn’t have to be boring with VRWC programs

The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center offers CampVandy, CampVandy W.I.L.D., the Vanderbilt Swim School and the Acorn Swim Team to help your kids stay active and improve skills this summer. Read More

Strive for balance, chancellor tells Vanderbilt graduates

Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos had words of advice for Vanderbilt graduates at their Commencement exercises on May 8. Read More

Station B Post Office to be closed May 14 and 15

The Station B Post Office in Rand Hall will be closed Thursday, May 14, and Friday, May 15, due to a planned power outage. Read More

Get discount on summer meal plan; Kissam serving lunch this summer

Vanderbilt Campus Dining is once again offering a limited-time summer discount on faculty and staff meal plans. In addition, the Kissam Center kitchen will serve breakfast and lunch this summer beginning May 11. Read More

Vanderbilt University honors 28 as emeriti faculty

Twenty-eight retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony May 8, when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Read More

Vanderbilt awards Founder’s Medals to top scholars at Commencement

Vanderbilt awarded Founder’s Medals to its top scholars at Commencement, May 8. Read More

Shirley Collado named Peabody Distinguished Alumna

Shirley Collado, a member of Vanderbilt's inaugural POSSE class, was honored by Peabody College with the 2015 Distinguished Alumna Award during Vanderbilt's Commencement. Read More

Commencement: The Full Ceremony

Watch video of the May 8, 2015 Commencement ceremony.  … Read More

Connect your passion to something that matters, Isaacson urges Vanderbilt graduating seniors

Life is much more than following your passion, writer Walter Isaacson told graduating seniors during his Senior Day address. Read More

Lunch and Learn May 20: ‘Talking to loved ones about aging’

The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center will host a Lunch and Learn on May 20 from noon to 1 p.m. in Light Hall, Room 437. Read More

Babies and You May 21: ‘Postpartum care’

Registered Nurse Carol Huber will will speak on postpartum care at the next Babies & You class. The talk begins at noon on Thursday, May 21, at 415 Light Hall. Read More

Locating the brain’s SAD center

Vanderbilt biologists have localized the seasonal light cycle effects that drive seasonal affective disorder to a small region of the brain called the dorsal raphe nucleus. Read More

Photo: Commencement ready

Friday's commencement schedule. Read More

Grant spurs study of rare breathing condition in women

A research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been approved for a $2.7 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study idiopathic subglottic stenosis (iSGS), a rare condition that inexplicably causes middle-aged women to struggle to breathe. Read More

Surgery for tongue tie shows some benefits; more research needed

Surgically treating “tongue tie” in infants may be associated with improved breast-feeding and reduced nipple pain, as reported by mothers, but much more research is needed on best practices for treating the condition, according to a newly published systematic review. Read More

Initiative seeks to boost My Health at Vanderbilt usage

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is stepping up promotion of its secure online patient portal and electronic medical record, My Health at Vanderbilt (MHAV). Read More

Flag-raising event highlights organ donation awareness

Vanderbilt University Medical Center held its sixth annual Donate Life Flag-Raising Ceremony on Thursday, April 30. Read More

American Liver Foundation honors Karp, Porayko

The American Liver Foundation (ALF) honored two Vanderbilt Transplant Center physicians during its annual Flavors of Nashville Gala held recently at the Gaylord Springs Club at Opryland Hotel. Read More

Peek named editor-in-chief of leading gastroenterology journal

Richard Peek, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center, has been appointed to a five-year term as editor-in-chief of the medical journal Gastroenterology beginning July 2016. Read More

Photo: Postdoc research awards

Ashley Stokes, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Imaging Science, received the 2015 Postdoc of the Year award last week at the annual Postdoctoral Research and Shared Resources Symposium in Light Hall. Read More