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(iStockphoto) The Flashback Trojan BOT that affects the Macintosh operating system has been detected on the Vanderbilt network. Infected machines could be blocked from accessing the network. A detection tool is available at its.vanderbilt.edu/news/flashback-virus. Please download and run the “Trojan Check” application and determine if your system… Read More

Colin Dayan, the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, has been named to a distinguished class of leaders from academia, business, public affairs, humanities and the arts, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced April 17. Read More

(Vanderbilt University) To help catch head and neck cancer in its earliest stages there will be free cancer screenings at Vanderbilt, Meharry and the Nashville VA on Friday, April 27. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Meharry Medical… Read More

Last month, Human Resources announced several policy updates. As of April 16, the following policies are now in effect: recruitment, hiring and onboarding; performance accountability; dispute resolution; and discipline.  As a reminder, the dependent tuition policy takes effect on… Read More

The Aetna Standard and Aetna HealthFund plans are making changes to the way out-of-network charges are determined. Because there are no set contract rates for out-of-network providers, Aetna has been passing on a percentage of the actual bill to its members. As of May 1, Aetna will base the amount… Read More

Dear Vanderbilt Community, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos We take great pride in being a safe and healing community. In the wake of recent reports of child sexual abuse on university campuses, Vanderbilt is reviewing our policies and practices for preventing and reporting child abuse, including child sexual abuse. Minors,… Read More

"Wearing Memory," 60"x48" oil on canvas, 2012. (image courtesy of Hannah Stahl) Vanderbilt’s Department of Art has announced this year’s recipient of the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award. Hannah Stahl, the daughter of Mary Jane Sorentino and Jim Stahl of Providence, R.I., will receive a… Read More

The Vanderbilt DRTC facilitates the discovery, application and translation of scientific knowledge to improve the care of patients with diabetes. The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center  announces a new pilot and feasibility program (P&F) for innovative studies that use the VICB High-Throughput Screening Facility,… Read More

The “Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box: Conversations with a Philosophical Flavor” series hosted by David Wood continues May 2 with a discussion led by Mona Frederick, executive director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt, and Kate Rattner,… Read More

To view an interactive campus map, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/map. From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 21, Stevenson Center Drive at the entrance to Lot 9 will be partially obstructed by a crane unloading equipment. From 6 to approximately 9 a.m. the drive at Lot… Read More

Vanderbilt Heart will present an hour-long television special on Monday, April 23, highlighting all aspects of heart care, from heart-healthy lifestyles to breakthrough technologies for treating heart disease. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (Vanderbilt University) April is Autism Awareness Month, and the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders is teaming with the Tennessee Department of Education to offer free, half-day workshops across the state for families of children with… Read More

A lecture on autism research will take place at One Magnolia Circle April 21. Pictured: researchers are developing emotion-sensing technology for use in autism social interventions. As part of Autism Awareness Month, nationally recognized each April, The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on… Read More

A golf tournament on April 19 at the Vanderbilt Legends Club will benefit the Susan Gray School. (Vanderbilt) The Susan Gray School for Children will hold a benefit golf tournament Thursday, April 19. The day begins with a continental breakfast at 7 a.m. Tee… Read More

(Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt engineering seniors have solved real-world design challenges for corporate sponsors during a two-semester design course. The students will share their results with clients at Senior Design Day, scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Featheringill Hall. More than 40 projects… Read More

Weeks Robert Andrew Weeks, research professor emeritus of materials science and mechanical engineering, died April 10 in Maryville, Tenn. He was 87. Weeks was a distinguished research scientist in the field of solid state physics as well as a notable glass scientist. At the end of a… Read More

Rendering of proposed new recreation center. (Moody-Nolan/Vanderbilt) New opportunities for getting fit, playing club sports or holding an indoor varsity sports practice will be available to the Vanderbilt community, pending Board of Trust approval of the proposed Vanderbilt recreation center and multipurpose facility. The board is expected to vote… Read More

Neurodiagnostics, the study of the brain and nervous system, will be celebrated at Vanderbilt and nationwide, April 15-21. During National Neurodiagnostic Week, Vanderbilt will acknowledge the year-round efforts of neurodiagnostic technologists. It is also an opportunity to educate others, recruit new students into the profession, and to… Read More

When should children begin reading? What are the signs of a reading difficulty? Laurie Cutting will provide the answers at a Vandy Moms lunch and learn April 19. Photo by John Russell (Vanderbilt) Do you have questions about your child’s reading abilities or special concerns about reading disorders? Join… Read More

To celebrate National Poetry Month (April) and the exhibition To See as Artists See: American Art from the Phillips Collection, nationally and locally known poets will read poems by American poets from the late 19th century through the 20th century at the Frist Center for… Read More