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The Hutton Hotel offers a wide variety of amenities, including chic, ultra-modern decor. Image courtesy of Hutton.com. Nashville’s Hutton Hotel is offering a special rate – $100 per night – for Vanderbilt staff and faculty in July and August on the following dates: July 27-28,… Read More

Vandy physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider respond to the announcement that the collaboration has found a new subatomic particle that may be the long-sought Higgs boson. Read More

An unidentified object captured by the Dyer Observatory during the Venus transit. (Dyer Observatory/Vanderbilt) Our UFO has been identified and we have a four-way tie. The objects crossing the Sun during the Venus transit were distant aircraft. The explanations of our winners were well thought out and included… Read More

Anthony Hayes of VUMC Plant Services' electrical shop installs LED energy efficient light bulbs at Eskind Biomedical Library. (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) When Nashville temperatures soared to an all-time high last Friday, the Vanderbilt campus kept its cool, thanks in part to low humidity as well as the long-term energy conservation… Read More

Commodore fans are invited to join Vanderbilt Head Coach James Franklin on Wednesday, July 11, for a public unveiling of the football team’s new uniforms for the 2012 season. The event, scheduled for 6-8 p.m., will take place at the Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt, located at 2501… Read More

Pietro Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and member of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE), was awarded with the OLYMPUS ISCAS Best Paper Award at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS) June 30 in Pisa, Italy. Read More

Bethany Smith, a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, has been awarded a first place prize in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards competition. Read More

David Merryman, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is among 78 of the nation's brightest young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's 18th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Read More

A brief filed by James F. Blumstein, University Professor of Constitutional Law and Health Law and Policy at Vanderbilt Law School, provided a key legal argument relied on by Chief Justice John Roberts in his historic decision on the Affordable Care Act. Read More

“The Brain Game: Understanding Mental Fitness” will be the topic of a Geriatrics and Gerontology Interest Group lecture at noon Tuesday, July 10, in Medical Center North Room C2209. The speaker will be Beverly Sanborn, vice president of program development for Belmont Village Senior Living, Inc. Sanborn is a licensed clinical… Read More

The Master of Liberal Arts and Science Program, a unique graduate school program for working adults at Vanderbilt University, will offer classes this fall spanning spanning history, writing, philosophy and media studies. Read More

(Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt’s varsity running track on Natchez Trace has been opened to all students, faculty, full-time staff and patrons of the Student Recreation Center. “We’re pleased to invite these members of the Vanderbilt community to use the track facility, which was completely refurbished in 2009,” said David Williams,… Read More

ITS is pleased to offer several SharePoint 2010 training options to the Vanderbilt community. In order to meet the different needs of faculty and staff, both online self-paced training and an instructor-led class taught by an outside vendor will be offered. The online self-paced training is the most popular option. It… Read More

Coach James Franklin (John Russell/Vanderbilt) UPDATE: The cookout will be held rain or shine. Tents have been set up on Library Lawn. Anchor down! All faculty and staff are invited to attend a free cookout with Vanderbilt head football coach James Franklin and his staff on Thursday, July 12,… Read More

Steven Tepper (Vanderbilt University) Steven Tepper, associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt, has been chosen to facilitate Leadership Music’s annual program. Leadership Music is the nation’s premier education, networking and leadership program designed for established leaders in… Read More

This project focuses on the strengths, supports, spiritual expressions, and well-being of young people with intellectual disabilities or autism in our state. Our goal is to learn more about the things that help youth and young adults with disabilities flourish and live a good life. Read More

(iStockphoto) VUMC Network Computing Services will hold its 9th Annual Charity Golf Scramble benefiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt on Thursday, Sept. 27, at Vanderbilt Legends Club. This year’s event, which begins at 1 p.m., will benefit childhood cancer research. NCS has donated… Read More

"Nashville's Nutcracker" (image courtesy of Nashville Ballet) Nashville Ballet is celebrating Christmas in July by offering cool discounts on tickets to one of its most popular shows, Nashville’s Nutcracker, which will return to TPAC’s Jackson Hall for 11 performances Dec. 9-23. Tickets to all performances included in Nashville… Read More

Construction continues at the site of College Halls at Kissam, the two-year project to create Vanderbilt’s newest residential colleges. Blasting will begin at the construction site the week of July 2 and last through the month of July. Read More

The Fourth of July is a day of picnics, parades and celebrations, and nothing quite says Independence Day like fireworks. However, doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center urge caution with consumer fireworks and suggest leaving these displays to the experts. Read More