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(Photo: Seattle Children's Hospital) Eight-year-old Colton has mom and dad, Captain America, Star Lord and all of us at Vanderbilt to power him through his leukemia treatment at Seattle Children’s Hospital. See more of our favorite photos of the week » Share your photos with the Vanderbilt community… Read More

Bagwell will discuss “The WTO: Purposes, Design, and Challenges” for this annual series hosted by the Economics Department. Read More

Occupational health nurses will be available at several onsite locations over the next week to provide immunizations and TB skin tests. Read More

This week try mindful walking, a highly effective way to bring the mental calmness of sitting meditation into activity. Read More

Melinda Jones, RD, LD, will lead the March 19 discussion on healthy eating while pregnant. Read More

Peter Martin, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology and director of the Vanderbilt Addiction Center and the Vanderbilt Institute for Coffee Studies, talks about how coffee can positively affect your health.    … Read More

U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Deborah L. Birx will give an update on Friday, March 13, at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a government-funded program that over the past 12 years has had a dramatic impact on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Read More

Jonn Kim, founder and CEO of Geeks and Nerds Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama, will deliver the School of Engineering’s spring 2015 Chambers Family Entrepreneurial Lecture March 16. Read More

Vanderbilt will celebrate National Walking Day 2015 on Wednesday, April 1, from noon to 12:45 p.m. with a 20-minute group walk starting at Eskind Biomedical Library and ending at Library Lawn. Read More

Mother Nature didn’t seem to notice that we were on Spring Break this week. Another snowfall, another round of beautiful campus photos. See more on the Get Social website, and share your campus photos by tagging them #vandygram. Photo by @morganl82  … Read More

After building a nuclear fusion reactor in his basement at 17, Thiago Olson, BE’11, is now the founding CEO of Stratus, which is ready to launch a smart credit card that just might change your purchasing habits. Read More

Months of cold and sometimes icy and snowy weather can take a toll on our skin—but a Vanderbilt dermatologist says there are ways to protect it from the ravages of a lingering winter. Read More

Join us for a panel discussion on what’s next for Midtown at the Chamber Midtown Quarterly Meeting. Vanderbilt's Chief Human Resources Officer, Traci Nordberg, is among the panelists. Read More

After building successful careers and raising three children, Vicki Simons Heyman, BA’79, MBA’80, and Bruce Heyman, BA’79, MBA’80, were ready for more. “You reach a point in your life,” Bruce explains, “when you’ve done well—but now can you go do good?” So when President Barack Obama asked Bruce to serve… Read More

Like a lot of people, Dan Stephenson developed a taste for macaroni and cheese at a young age, but the “blue-box variety,” as he puts it, didn’t hold his interest for long. Early on he started experimenting with adventurous flavor combinations that eventually would become the hallmark of his business,… Read More

With nothing more than a willingness to make a difference and a $150 grant, high school science teacher Juliet Crupi was able to turn an inner-city after-school club into a nationally recognized program aimed at changing the relationships among her students, food and the community. Read More

The next Community Research Partners meeting will discuss "Assessing the Effectiveness of Pharmacist-Directed Medication Therapy Management in Improving Diabetes Outcomes in High-Risk Patients." The meeting is scheduled for Friday, March 6, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. Read More

Tufts University has named John G. Morris, BA’90, JD’93, currently interim director of athletics at Colorado State University, as its next director of athletics, effective June 15. The appointment follows a national search. Read More

A Vanderbilt engineering graduate who retired from the CIA discussed recently what wearable technology can do — including hand valuable information about users to hackers. A clip of Ira “Gus” Hunt, BE’77, MS’82, appeared in a Fox News investigative piece on devices such as Fitbit and Jawbone, which people use… Read More

A globally recognized polymer sciences researcher will deliver the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture March 30. Read More