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Eating nutritious foods is one way you can positively impact your health. Health Plus' Nutrition Corner makes healthy eating simple. Read More

More than 50 Vanderbilt students, faculty, staff and Nashville community members participated virtually in the inaugural Map the System global social entrepreneurship and social impact competition hosted in mid-April by the Wond’ry and the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures. Read More

Health Plus provides personal lifestyle coaching as a benefit for Vanderbilt faculty, staff and their spouses. Lifestyle coaching can help you find the motivation and tools to reach your goals. Read More

​Keep moving in the month of May by playing Move in May Wellness Bingo. Read More

Health Plus presents the video, "Stress and Coping During COVID-19" with Jim Jackson, research professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit up to two proposals, one in Medical Research and one in Science and Engineering, for the W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is currently soliciting concept papers that will be presented to the Keck Foundation for feedback in a consultation phone call in the winter of 2020. Read More

Vanderbilt is extending “stay at home” orders and authorizations for remote work until Friday, May 8, noting that it is possible the university's first phase of increased campus activity could begin as early as Monday, May 11. Read More

With the COVID-19 crisis, nurses face unprecedented stressors in their professional and personal lives, write Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty Brittany Haskell, Mathew Schroer and Marci Zsamboky in the journal "American Nurse." Read More

Vanderbilt School of Nursing professor Mariann Piano, the Nancy and Hilliard Travis Professor of Nursing and senior associate dean for research, sets the facts straight about COVID-2019 and alcohol, including reasons to monitor your alcohol consumption during the current pandemic. Read More

The Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act recently signed into law earmarks more than $2 trillion to individuals and businesses and provides other financial assistance as compensation for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes several changes to retirement accounts and plans. Read More

Faculty may submit nominations for the Thomas Jefferson Award, given to a Vanderbilt faculty member for distinguished service through extraordinary contributions in the councils and governance of the university, through Friday, May 15. Read More

The School of Medicine Basic Sciences has established a new Dean’s Faculty Fellows program designed to recognize the efforts of faculty in the early stages of their careers. Read More

Marybeth Shinn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Human, Organizational and Community Development, is quoted. Read More

David Aronoff, Addison B. Scoville Jr. Professor of Medicine, is quoted. Read More

Brian Fitzpatrick, professor of law, is quoted. Read More

William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine, is quoted. Read More

When the coronavirus pandemic triggered Vanderbilt’s mid-March transition to distance learning, Clements, like many faculty members, had just a few days to turn his hands-on lab sections into virtual learning experiences. He did it by leaning heavily on his strength: using technology to keep students engaged with course material. Read More

Distance learning brings a unique set of hurdles, but our students are up for the challenge. As the School of Medicine transitions to digital learning, medical education has adapted to meet the circumstances. Read More

CNBC interviewed Joshua Clinton, professor of political science, about Americans' shifting political priorities due to the coronavirus. Read More

Vanderbilt University Social Networks, Aging and Policy Study (VUSNAPS) is recruiting older LGBT adults, between ages 50-76, across the South to participate in a study on relationships, health and aging. Read More