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    Get food with international flair at ACDR cook-off

    (iStockphoto) Are your taste buds craving something scrumptious? Spicy? Maybe a little international? Get your fill at the Alliance for Cultural Diversity in Research’s international cook-off. Favorite dishes from around the world will be available in the third-floor breezeway between Light Hall and the Robinson Research Building… Read More

    Jun 19, 2012

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    Openings still available for Kindermusik classes at Blair

    (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Summer classes for Blair School of Music’s Kindermusik program begin June 26, and openings are still available in many of the classes. For a complete list of class descriptions and schedules, go here. Note: The 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Zoo Train class is now… Read More

    Jun 19, 2012

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    Vanderbilt and affiliates receive $18.8 million to improve health care, reduce costs for chronic conditions

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center and its affiliates have received preliminary notice of a three-year, $18.8 million grant to improve chronic disease management for patients with high blood pressure, heart failure and diabetes. The Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is one of the… Read More

    Jun 18, 2012

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    VUMC named leader in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health care

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s commitment to meeting the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community has been recognized with certification awarded to the institution by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as a Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) “Leader in Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Healthcare.”… Read More

    Jun 18, 2012

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    Pavlović’s ‘Search for Landscapes’ reaching audiences in D.C., around the world

    “Search for Landscapes,” 2011, by Vesna Pavlović. Search for Landscapes, Assistant Professor of Art Vesna Pavlović’s installation using 35 millimeter slides of one family’s long-ago travels as well as antique slide projectors to evoke the nature of memory and decay, is currently on view at G Fine Art in… Read More

    Jun 18, 2012

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    New mobile ‘app’ helps medical center monitor hand washing compliance

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center is serious about hand hygiene. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hand hygiene is the single most important intervention to prevent the spread of infection from one patient to another patient. And now, Vanderbilt physicians, nurses and IT specialists have collaborated to create… Read More

    Jun 18, 2012

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    Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital seeks to reduce drowning incidents this summer

    Since Memorial Day weekend, emergency medicine physicians at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt have already seen an increase in pool-related injuries, including fatalities. Throughout the summer, Children’s Hospital is partnering with Safe Kids Cumberland Valley and a number of other community organizations to introduce a proactive water… Read More

    Jun 18, 2012

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    Community forums set for East-West Connector Bus Rapid Transit

    Community forums will be held to discuss the new Bus Rapid Transit project. (image courtesy of Nashville MTA) The Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and the Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee will kick off a series of ongoing public information sessions on the… Read More

    Jun 15, 2012

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    Vanderbilt mourns loss of Frances Williams Preston

    Frances Williams Preston, member of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Board of Overseers, died June 13. (Vanderbilt) Frances Williams Preston, one of the most successful female music executives in the history of the entertainment industry, and a member of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Board of Overseers, died from congestive… Read More

    Jun 14, 2012

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    Sengupta receives NSF CAREER award

    Peabody's Pratim Sengupta has won a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Read More

    Jun 14, 2012

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    Heat index, lightning alerts and more from Vanderbilt’s ‘CoachSmart’ app

    A new Vanderbilt Sports Medicine smartphone application for coaches puts an athletic trainer, a personal assistant and a meteorologist all in the palm of their hand.  … Read More

    Jun 14, 2012

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    Celebrate summer at the Employee Celebration Picnic

    To celebrate the end of the academic year and to thank university and medical center faculty and staff for their commitment, hard work and dedication, all Vanderbilt employees are invited to an Employee Celebration Picnic on Friday, June 22. The event will offer grilled chicken sandwiches, veggie… Read More

    Jun 13, 2012

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    365@VU: Kissam demolition continues

    Pardon our dust: Kissam quadrangle's six building are in the process of being torn down to make way for a state-of-the-art living-dining experience for students. Photo by Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt for the 365@VU project Demolition of the Kissam Quadrangle continues this week as Vanderbilt makes way for the construction… Read More

    Jun 13, 2012

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    Alumnus to sign new Fred Russell biography

    Fred Russell and family (archive photo) Meet Vanderbilt alumnus Andrew Derr at a book reading and signing of Life of Dreams: The Good Times of Sportswriter Fred Russell. The event will take place at the Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt on West End Ave. June 15, 6-8 p.m. Read More

    Jun 13, 2012

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    Panel: Libraries and the impact of Internet technology

    Vanderbilt's Jean and Alexander Heard Library (Central Library), as seen from 21st Avenue South. (Photo by Jon Erickson) Internet technology (IT)  in 21st century higher education and its impact on libraries and IT departments will be the focus of a June 19 panel discussion in the Central Library’s… Read More

    Jun 13, 2012

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    New leadership for Vanderbilt Divinity model program

    The Rev. Jaco Hamman, a professor of pastoral care and counseling who studies the confluence of theology and psychology in people’s lives, is the new director of Vanderbilt University Divinity School’s Program in Theology and Practice. Read More

    Jun 13, 2012

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    200th Wellcast: Wright Pinson on active lifestyles

    Pinson (Vanderbilt) This week’s Faculty/Staff Health and Wellness Wellcast, titled “The Wright Stuff,” is the series’ landmark 200th podcast. Listen as Mary Yarbrough, executive director of Faculty/Staff Health and Wellness, talks with C. Wright Pinson, deputy vice chancellor for Health Affairs and… Read More

    Jun 13, 2012

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    Rare NEA research grant to fund Vanderbilt study on art-making and quality of life

    The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt will use $10,000 from the NEA to study correlations between art-making and quality of life. Read More

    Jun 12, 2012

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    Be a ‘First Friend’ to an international student

    International students at Vanderbilt are in need of friendship and support when they arrive. Help make their transition smooth by participating in First Friends through ISSS. (photo provided by ISSS) Each fall Vanderbilt welcomes students from around the world to our campus and community. This year, 360 international students… Read More

    Jun 12, 2012

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    Sign up for paycheck direct deposit at C2HR

    To reduce paper usage and data entry time, enrollment for direct deposit of paychecks is now on the C2HR website. To sign up for direct deposit: Have your bank name, bank transit number, bank account number, and account type on-hand. Have your… Read More

    Jun 12, 2012