ResearchMatch adds new clinical trials feature
Patients seeking to participate in clinical trials have a new option in online tools for finding studies that might offer hope for their problem or condition. Read More
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Discovery Lecturer O’Rahilly to explore obesity, insulin resistance
Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, M.D., an expert in metabolic and endocrine diseases, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, April 2. Read More
Photo: Cancer discoveries
Louis Staudt, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Cancer Genomics and co-chief of the NCI’s Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, spoke about new lymphoma therapies at his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. Read More
StoryCorps project on campus April 22-24
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s project with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to record and preserve voices of local community members will be on campus Wednesday, April 22 - Friday, 24. Read More
Nominations for Vanderbilt Prize Scholar sought
Nominations for this year’s Vanderbilt Prize Scholar are now being accepted. The deadline is April 24. Read More
Photo: Readying for ICD-10
Monday’s ICD-10 Provider Fair offered an update on some of the changes scheduled to occur later this year as Vanderbilt University Medical Center shifts to ICD-10, a new medical coding and reporting system that will add more specificity to tracking medical diagnoses. Read More
Match Day reveals medical students’ future addresses
At last Friday’s Match Day, graduating Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) students and their family members and friends packed Langford Auditorium, anxiously waiting for the clock to strike 11 a.m. Read More
Opry campaign tunes support for Children’s Hospital
The Grand Ole Opry is marking its 90th anniversary this year, and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will be the first of nine charities to benefit during a campaign called “Cause for Applause.” Read More
Virginia group tours Children’s Hospital as facility role model
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt just received the highest compliment. Read More
Cadaver Ball 2015
Students, faculty and administrators of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine took over Marathon Music Works downtown for last Saturday’s annual Cadaver Ball. Read More
Vanderbilt and Pittsburgh to lead new center to identify toxic chemicals
EPA is establishing a new center at Vanderbilt University and the University of Pittsburgh to develop an alternative approach for toxicity testing to help evaluate the safety of the 80,000-plus chemicals in general commerce. Read More
‘Virgins, Mothers and Martyrs: Women in Early Christian Africa’ March 27
The Robert Penn Warren Center Seminar on Late Antiquity is pleased to announce “Virgins, Mothers and Martyrs: Women in Early Christian Africa,” scheduled for Friday, March 27, at 4 p.m. at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Room 122. Read More
VKC Reading Clinic seeks tutors for summer 2015
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Reading Clinic is seeking students and professional teachers to serve as part-time reading clinic tutors and teacher tutors during the summer 2015 program. Read More
VKC Reading Clinic now accepting summer applications
Enrollment is now open for the summer 2015 program of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Reading Clinic. The clinic provides individualized, one-to-one tutoring using assessments and evidence-based instructional methods shown to promote reading. Read More
Health Plus offers wellness coaching
Health Plus provides personal wellness coaching as a benefit for Vanderbilt faculty and staff. Read More
Vanderbilt students encourage peers to ‘talk to me’
Vanderbilt Student Government is partnering with students, student organizations and the Office of Housing and Residential Education to launch “Talk to Me,” a campaign designed to engage members of the community in diverse conversation. Read More
“From Romantic Poetry to the Writings of the Beat Generation” Robert Barsky, 3.25.2015
Watch video of “From Romantic Poetry to the Writings of the Beat Generation” by Robert Barsky, Professor on March 25th, 2015 during Osher Lifelong Learning… Read More
Cal Turner Family Foundation gift establishes center for social ventures at Vanderbilt
The Turner Family Center for Social Ventures is being started at Vanderbilt with a $1.2 million donation from Cal Turner Jr.'s foundation. Read More
Recent Books, Spring 2015
The latest offerings from Vanderbilt writers Read More
Ebola survivor, Dr. Ian Crozier, to speak April 8
Dr. Ian Crozier, a graduate of the infectious diseases fellowship program at Vanderbilt, was the "mystery patient" being treated for Ebola at Emory. Crozier will speak from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, in Light Hall, Room 208, as part of the Flexner Dean's Lecture Series at Vanderbilt. Read More
