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Vanderbilt may submit one application to the Recordings at Risk program. Recordings at Risk is a national re-granting program administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. 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, which will be presented to the Keck Foundation for feedback in a consultation phone call in winter 2020. Read More

The partnership between Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been recognized by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing with its 2019 New Era for Academic Nursing Award. VUSN and VUMC received the award for their public and significant commitment to incorporating academic nursing into the mission and practice of the health system. Read More

Introductory training for REDCap, including designing a project, adding data, disseminating a survey and viewing data, will be held from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, at the Sony Building, Room 2001-A. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt's Biomolecular Multimodal Imaging Center are working to create a high-resolution, three-dimensional “atlas” of the human kidney that will help future researchers understand what exactly goes wrong when kidneys fail. Read More

Howard Fuchs, a professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, died unexpectedly Oct. 28. He is being remembered as an outstanding clinician, an astute teacher and a friend and supporter of many. Read More

VandyHacks VI will engage more than 550 students from Vanderbilt and schools in the South and Midwest for a 36-hour, art-themed invention marathon beginning Friday evening on Nov. 1 and ending on Sunday, Nov. 3. Read More

Vanderbilt's MarmotE team placed second and won $1 million in the 2019 DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge. Read More

The Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar Series presents Jill Wildonger, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, on Thursday, Nov. 7. Wildonger will discuss "Building a Neuron with Motors and Microtubules" beginning at 12:15 p.m. in MRB III, Room 3131. Read More

Gary J. Nabel, chief scientific officer and senior vice president of Sanofi, will discuss “Unlocking the Promise of Medicine through Academic and Biotech/Pharma Innovation” at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in Light Hall, Room 512. The lecture is part of the School of Medicine Basic Science's Enabling Innovation Initiative seminar series.  Read More

Steven Townsend, whose research into human milk could one day help all babies get their best start in life, is also a committed mentor devoted to helping young scholars get the best start on their careers. Read More

"Learning at Play," a one-day symposium on games for learning and social change, is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 8, at Vanderbilt's Curb Center. Mark Sample, associate professor and chair of digital studies at Davidson College, will give the keynote talk. Read More

James J. O’Connell, president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will discuss "Medicine in the Streets: Three Decades Caring for Boston's Rough Sleepers" beginning at noon on Monday, Nov. 11, in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

Flu shots at night? What a fright! Stay well this year and come to Student Health during evening hours on this special night: Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 5 to 7 p.m. Your treat is a FREE flu shot. Read More

Join the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Life at Vanderbilt in closing out LGBTQI History Month with an event at the K.C. Potter Center on Oct. 31. Read More

The Nov. 7 Health Plus presentation will focus on preventing and managing blood pressure. Dr. Rosette Chakkalakal, MD, MHS, Medical Director, Health Plus will lead the presentation in 214 Light Hall. Read More

A memorial service for Luke Gregory, CEO of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, who died Friday, Oct. 18, will be held on Friday, Oct. 25, at West End United Methodist Church, 2200 West End Ave. Read More

Vanderbilt Diabetes Day is slated for Friday, Nov. 15, from 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Student Life Center. The event will include talks, poster presentations, awards and more. Read More

A team led by Vanderbilt research scientist Peter Volgyesi will compete in the live championship round of the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge at the Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The first, second and third place winners will walk away with $2 million, $1 million, and $750,000 in prizes, respectively. Read More

Esther Duflo, recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics and the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT, will discuss "Good Economics for Hard Times" on Thursday, Nov. 14, as part of the Department of Economics' Steine Lecture Series. Read More