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The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center hosts its ninth annual Elder Care Fair on Wednesday, March 14, providing an excellent opportunity to obtain helpful information about available community resources and services for seniors and adult caregivers. Read More

The Vanderbilt Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab is seeking participants age 8 to 20 for a research study focusing on reading difficulties and neurofibromatosis. Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty and staff are eligible for a discount on tickets to select performances of the following upcoming shows at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Read More

The Vanderbilt Family Resource Center’s Caregiver Support Group will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, in Light Hall, Room 419D. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit one nomination to the American Diabetes Association for its Pathway to Stop Diabetes Awards. The award amount is up to $1.625 million, and the single nomination may be for one of three award types: Initiator Award for researchers in postdoctoral training; Accelerator Award for early-career diabetes investigators; and the Visionary Award for established investigators new to diabetes. Read More

Vanderbilt Cheerleading and the Vanderbilt Dance Team will host workshops at the Vanderbilt Recreation Center April 14. Read More

Comedian Megan Gogerty is having a midlife crisis. When a friend suggests that she - a sunny, nerdy, cornfed comic - can’t play Lady Macbeth, that tragic figure of darkness and power, Megan launches on a quest to prove otherwise, only to discover Lady M isn’t all that she’s cracked up to be. Read More

Terry Galloway spent years living in silence until technology, in the form of a cochlear implant, caught up with her. "You Are My Sunshine" is Terry's comic, sometimes moving, sometimes profane, exploration of what happened after she literally regained her senses. Read More

On Feb. 23, 2018, VUPD received a report from a Campus Security Authority that a female student was sexually assaulted by a male student in a campus residence hall on Feb. 22, 2018. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one early career scientist and one senior scientist in a field of Regenerative Medicine for the 2019 Innovators in Science Award, sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and administered by the New York Academy of Sciences. Read More

The National Institutes of Health has posted information for the 2018 S10 Shared and High-End Instrumentation Grants programs. These programs and links to their program announcements are: Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (SIG) (link is external): The SIG Program funds grant awards in… Read More

The School of Medicine invites the Vanderbilt community to three upcoming lectures. Read More

The Institute for Medicine and Public Health is looking for research staff who have actively recruited participants for research studies to give feedback on the use of electronic consent. Read More

Gustavo Silva, assistant professor of biology at Duke University, will discuss “K63 Ubiquitin and the Regulation of Translation in Response to Oxidative Stress” beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in Preston Research Building, Room 206. The talk is part of the Discovery Science Emerging Scholars Lecture series. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are looking for children who are in kindergarten this year to take part in a study about how children learn to process numbers and what parts of the brain change as they do so. Read More

SENSE Theatre and the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center will present the play "HATS" at 7 p.m. March 9 and 10 at the Troutt/Black Box Theatre Complex on Compton Avenue, near Belmont Boulevard. SENSE Theatre includes youth with autism spectrum disorder and trained peer actors from the University School of Nashville. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may choose one nominee for the V Foundation V Scholar Award program, which is open to research in all cancer types. The V Foundation aims to “achieve victory over cancer” in part by funding cancer research grants. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit three letters of intent for the Breast Cancer Alliance Exceptional Project Grant. The mission of the Breast Cancer Alliance is to improve survival rates and quality of life for those impacted by breast cancer through better prevention, early detection, treatment and cure. Read More

On Feb. 14 at 8:18 p.m., the Metro Nashville Police Department and VUPD responded to a report of an aggravated robbery at 18th Avenue South and Horton Avenue. Read More

Join us for a weeklong celebration of Recreational Sports & Fitness Day, as we highlight Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center programs and Vanderbilt University’s healthy and active lifestyles. Read More