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The Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems has been awarded a $17.2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accelerate the Android Mobile Middleware Objects (AMMO2) project. The contract was announced Sept. 19. Read More

Vanderbilt LifeFlight is going pink during October to show its support for breast cancer awareness. LifeFlight medical crews will wear a special pink name badge on their flight suits and other staff will wear pink golf shirts. Read More

Harvard physician and anthropologist Arthur Kleinman will discuss “Stigma and Human Rights: Their Role in Global Health” from noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 2 in Light Hall, Room 208. Kleinman’s talk is the annual Felts Lecture and part of the Flexner Deans Lecture Series at Vanderbilt School of Medicine. Read More

The Gerontology Continuing Education series will host events on Oct. 5, 12 and 19 at Meharry Medical College. Read More

Herman Taylor (image courtesy of Vanderbilt School of Medicine) Dr. Herman A. Taylor leads the largest community-based study of cardiovascular disease in African Americans ever launched by the NIH. Hear his lecture, “Profiling Heart Health and Heart Risk in a Southern African American Population,” at noon on Sept. 26,… Read More

Two mechanical engineering graduate students and their professor have received the Wyss Institute-IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Award for Translational Research for their work on a robotic leg prosthesis, selected from submissions by biomedical engineers and scientists from academic institutions worldwide. Read More

Daphne Koller will present her ground-breaking work in free, universally accessible college education as the first guest speaker in the 2012-13 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series. Read More

(Photo courtesy of PBS) “Call the Midwife,” a British drama about the lives of midwives working in the East End of London in the 1950s, will have a free preview showing of an episode at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Read More

Patrick Grohar, M.D., Ph.D., was awarded a $250,000 Hyundai Hope on Wheels grant last week for his research into potential drug therapies for Ewing sarcoma, a cancer of the bone. Hyundai’s most recent donation to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is the largest one-time grant the company… Read More

Gretchen Geagan of Life-Links Geriatric Care Management will present “Transitions of Care” on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Read More

R. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a member of the Institute of Medicine, will discuss “Duties of Care, Rights of Conscience” at noon Friday, Sept. 21, in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

A novel approach to improve location information to centimeter scale accuracy using the global positioning system has earned a Google Research Award for an engineering professor and his team. Read More

A new exploratory data mining technique for identifying important student learning behaviors and strategies is grabbing entrepreneurial interest and kudos from the international community. Read More

Want to register early for this year’s diabetes walks? Register, pick up your T-shirt and grab a snack all at one time at our two registration fairs Sept. 6 and 7. For more visit the Diabetes fair online. Read More

Richard Payne, the Esther Colliflower director of the Duke University Institute on Care at the End of Life and professor of medicine and divinity at Duke Divinity School, will talk about “The Imperative of Palliative Care: Meeting the Triple Aim for Quality Care for the Seriously Ill” on Thursday, Sept. 6, at 3:30 p.m. Read More

Registration is now open for the 2012 Walk To Cure Diabetes. Join the Vanderbilt team,… Read More

Vandyville opens at 3 p.m. on Thursday. Traffic in and around campus, as well as parking availability, will be affected by tonight’s big football home opener against South Carolina. Read More

Patient-centered medical homes and quality of care will be the subject of a Geriatrics and Gerontology Interest Group lunchtime lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Read More

The School of Engineering has announced the appointments of a new department chair and three new faculty members. Read More

Great Performances at Vanderbilt continues to keep the Midsouth current with the world’s international performing trends in its 38th year. This season brings a four-event lineup that offers invigorating, soul-stirring spectacle while touching on current political and social issues. Read More