Huerta to speak on ’empowering youth with compassion’ March 26
"Empowering youth with compassion and mindful teaching" will take place in the Black Cultural Center auditorium at 5:30 p.m. Read More
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Vanderbilt MBA students awarded grant for language app
The student co-founders of a language-learning platform called Boomalang have been awarded the 2015 Sohr Grant. Read More
Tensions between religion and secular society explored in new class
A professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish studies has created a cross-disciplinary course on secularism with the help of 29 faculty across eight schools. Read More
Weintraub receives 2015 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award
The American Association of Physics Teachers has given its 2015 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award to Vanderbilt’s David A. Weintraub, professor of astronomy. The award recognizes educators who have made notable and creative contributions to the teaching of physics. Read More
Move over ‘value added’: Teacher observation data more useful in human capital decisions
Student test scores are less central to principals’ human capital decision-making than teacher observation data. Read More
Investing in Life
Even with his 50th birthday just around the corner, Mark Tillinger, BA’81, MBA’82, did not have a midlife crisis: He was too busy fighting for… Read More
Kudos: Read about faculty and staff awards, appointments and achievements
Read about the latest faculty and staff awards, appointments and achievements. Read More
Craddock remembered as extraordinary preacher
Fred Craddock, who became an extraordinary preacher, writer and mentor to his students after earning his doctorate from Vanderbilt's Graduate School of Religion in 1964, has died. Read More
QuickVU Science! Cancer imaging breakthrough
In the latest QuickVU: See the imaging breakthrough that could transform cancer treatment; find out which snack could save your heart; and learn how magnets could make recovery from surgery easier and faster. Watch now! Read More
Occupational Health comes to VUH, OHO, Williamson County
Occupational health nurses will be available at several onsite locations over the next week to provide immunizations and TB skin tests. Read More
Panel examines real-world role of pragmatic research trials
The question of what’s different about pragmatic research was aired in a well-attended panel discussion last week in Light Hall sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research and the Mid-South Clinical Data Research Network (CDRN). Read More
Health Plus offers tips for mindful walking
This week try mindful walking, a highly effective way to bring the mental calmness of sitting meditation into activity. Read More
Initiative seeks to streamline lab test ordering process
A committee of physician leaders has embarked on a multi-year effort to take a close look at all types of lab work ordered at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and in the process do away with unnecessary or obsolete tests. Read More
Gregory to chair child health advocacy group’s board
Luke Gregory, chief executive officer of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’ Hospital at Vanderbilt, has been elected to serve as chair of the Children’s Hospital Alliance of Tennessee (CHAT) Board for 2015. Read More
VUMC’s Barocas named to Commission on Cancer
Daniel Barocas, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was recently named a representative on the Commission on Cancer. Read More
Photo: Having a blast
"Brain Blast" is sponsored annually by the Vanderbilt Brain Institute to raise awareness about the brain in health and disease. Read More
Celebrate National Nutrition Month with VU’s registered dietitians
National Nutrition Month focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. Read More
Babies and You: ‘Eating for Two’
Melinda Jones, RD, LD, will lead the March 19 discussion on healthy eating while pregnant. Read More
National Cancer Institute’s Staudt set for Discovery Lecture
Louis Staudt, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in gene expression profiling at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, March 19. Read More
VICC set to host preview of PBS cancer documentary
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, along with Nashville Public Television (NPT), the American Cancer Society and Gilda’s Club Nashville, will sponsor a special community event to preview an upcoming PBS television documentary on cancer. Read More