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VU named among best colleges for food in America
The Commons Dining Center is a state-of-the-art facility that features a salad bar, specialty pizza oven, deli, wok, grill and vegan/vegetarian food options. (Vanderbilt University/Steve Green) Culinary website The Daily Meal conducted a study of 2,000 four-year educational institutions to determine the best in campus dining… Read MoreSep 14, 2012
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Listen: Vanderbilt Libraries’ exhibit spotlights beloved entertainers
“Stage & Screen: The Star Quality of Vanderbilt’s Performing Arts Collections,” now open at Vanderbilt University’s renovated Central Library and Special Collections, invites viewers to step “behind the curtain” of some of the world’s most memorable productions. Read MoreSep 13, 2012
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Vanderbilt sponsoring events for opening of Carrie Mae Weems exhibition at Frist
"Carrie Mae Weems: Afro-Chic" (video still), 2010. (courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Vanderbilt University will host programming on campus and sponsor an event at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in conjunction with the opening at the Frist of Carrie Mae… Read MoreSep 13, 2012
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Decode the election at Vanderbilt’s Saturday University
Saturday University, designed to help adults rediscover the joy of education, will focus on the November elections during sessions Oct. 13 and 20. Read MoreSep 13, 2012
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Family mass vaccination exercise set for Sept. 29
Vanderbilt employees with children between 4 and 14 are being invited to participate in a free four-hour Family Mass Vaccination exercise on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks. Read MoreSep 13, 2012
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Medical Center mourns loss of Lemonds
Brent Lemonds, M.S., R.N., EMT-P, administrator for Service Improvement at Vanderbilt University Hospital, died Sunday from a pulmonary embolism while recovering at his home from a recent orthopaedic surgery. He was 50. Read MoreSep 12, 2012
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements
Barsky (Vanderbilt) Robert Barsky, professor of French and Italian and professor of English, will deliver “The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual: From the Buildup Toward World War II to the Occupy Movement,” the 10th Annual Elizabeth Killam Rodgers and Constance Killam Distinguished Public Lecture, as part of the… Read MoreSep 12, 2012
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9/11 remembrance held on Alumni Lawn
Members of Vanderbilt ROTC, local fire and police and VUPD joined faculty, staff and students on Alumni Lawn for the 9/11 service. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Members of the Vanderbilt community gathered for a moment of silence, prayers and reflection on the 11th anniversary of the tragic events of… Read MoreSep 12, 2012
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Vanderbilt marks fourth year as ‘U.S. News’ No. 17 national university
Vanderbilt University was named the 17th-ranked national university by "U.S. News & World Report." Read MoreSep 12, 2012
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Vanderbilt Board of Trust emerita member Alyne Massey dies
Alyne Massey Alyne Queener Armistead Massey, philanthropist, community leader and longtime member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, died Sept. 11 at her home in Nashville. Elected to the Vanderbilt Board in 1977, she was named trustee emerita in 2003. She made a significant impact on the university through… Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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9/11 survivor shares story virtually with high school students
Former Navy Commander Paul Gonzales visited the Vanderbilt Virtual School to share his personal survival story. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) by Joan Brasher At Vanderbilt’s Virtual School, 9/11 was marked a day early with emotional presentations by a survivor of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Paul Gonzales, a… Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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Vanderbilt MFA Program in Creative Writing ranked among top 10
Vanderbilt’s MFA Program in Creative Writing has been ranked among the top 10 programs in the country in a survey conducted by "Poets & Writers" magazine and reported in the September/October issue. Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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Dayani Center boot camp begins Sept. 17
(iStockphoto) The Vanderbilt Dayani Center for Health & Wellness is offering an eight-week outdoor boot camp. Boot camp is a high-intensity class featuring cardio drills and strength training exercises. The exercises include, but are not limited to, running, jumping, stair climbing, push ups, sit ups, lunges, squats… Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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Geriatrics and Gerontology Interest Group presents ‘Transitions of Care’
Gretchen Geagan of Life-Links Geriatric Care Management will present “Transitions of Care” on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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‘Duties of Care, Rights of Conscience’ subject of medical lecture
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 MoreSep 11, 2012
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Pumpkin patch will benefit children’s cancer research
(image courtesy of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt) All funds raised at the Cooper Trooper Pumpkin Patch, open during the month of October, will benefit the Cooper Trooper Foundation Fund in Childhood Cancer Research at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The pumpkin patch… Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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Music and physics subject of lecture by Nashville Symphony director
Vanderbilt’s physics and astronomy department has invited the award-winning music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, to deliver a lecture on campus. Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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O’Day left legacy of passion, humility, kindness
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is mourning the loss of longtime faculty member Denis O’Day, M.D., director of the School of Medicine’s Emphasis Program and professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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Get discount to ‘Anything Goes,’ ‘Clybourne Park’ at TPAC
The Tennessee Performing Arts Center is offering discounts to the Vanderbilt community for upcoming performances of three acclaimed stage works. Clybourne Park, a “buzz saw-sharp comedy,” won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Get discounted tickets to the following performances: 6:30 p.m. Read MoreSep 10, 2012
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Get discounts on Predators tickets
Members of the Vanderbilt community can receive discounted tickets to upcoming Nashville Predators home games, including: Preseason Sept. 25 vs. St. Louis Blues Sept. 29 vs. Carolina Hurricanes Regular season Oct. 13 vs. St. Louis Blues Oct. 16 vs. Colorado Avalanche Oct. 18 vs. Vancouver Canucks Oct. 20 vs. Read MoreSep 10, 2012