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On May 4, the Community Research Partners meeting will convene, focusing on the importance of health literacy and health communication in patient health, with a particular focus on the role of health literacy in diabetes and obesity. The presentation will include the discussion of a current… Read More

The Whole Kid Festival, which celebrates Children’s Mental Health Week in the Middle Tennessee community, will take place on Saturday, May 5, at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. All are welcome to attend and enjoy entertainment and fun activities and gain… Read More

Wondering (or worrying) about how your retirement investments are doing in this economy? As part of an ongoing service to Vanderbilt Retirement Plan participants, Human Resources offers a variety of free events sponsored by its vendors. Please join us for the next one on May 8 from 5-6… Read More

(John Russell/Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt employees who want to be part of the action for the 2012 Commodore football season have the opportunity to purchase their season tickets using payroll deduction. In addition to receiving a discounted price on their season tickets, Vanderbilt employees can elect to spread the… Read More

Dear Colleagues, Traci Nordberg (Vanderbilt University) As Middle Tennessee’s largest private employer, our faculty and staff work and live throughout the region. To bring an added level of convenience to health care services for members of the Vanderbilt Health Plan, additional choices will be offered through our affiliated providers,… Read More

(Vanderbilt University) The price of regular parking permits for University Central faculty, staff and students will increase an additional $5 per month for the 2012-13 academic year, to a total of $32 per month. This monthly increase is necessary to cover the continued rising costs of maintaining parking lots… Read More

A group of Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff will share their research and passion for science and technology with middle and high school students at the nation’s largest science fair April 27-29 in Washington, D.C. Read More

At the Eighth Annual National Sustainable Design Expo, a team of Vanderbilt engineering seniors won the Marketplace Innovation Award, Student Choice Award and a $90,000 Phase II grant from the EPA for a biohybrid solar panel that substitutes expensive silicon wafers with a protein derived from spinach. Read More

iStock Vanderbilt staff and faculty who travel on university business should note a new benefit in the travel reimbursement policy. “Earlybird Check-In,” such as the service provided by Southwest Airlines for an additional fee, will now be reimbursable in full. Important travel information and policy updates… Read More

Roteta Senior engineering student Pauline Roteta has been selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Brazil. Read More

Curtis Northcutt, a member of the Class of 2013, has been named a 2012 Goldwater Scholar. Each year, Vanderbilt is given the opportunity to nominate up to four outstanding sophomore and junior students in the math, science and engineering fields. Competition for the award is fierce: 282 scholars were… Read More

Two humanities professors in Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science have been named 2012 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read More

Internet magazine The Daily Meal re-ranked the U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 top 20 colleges and universities based on their food options. Vanderbilt, which is ranked 17th by US News this year, came in sixth, according to The Daily Meal, for best dining options among its… Read More

Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory Director Rocky Alvey celebrated two things he cares about deeply at the United Nations on April 12: music and astronomy. Rocky Alvey (John Russell/Vanderbilt) Singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman and Alvey’s collaborative album project The Mighty Sky was featured at the U.N.’s celebration of… Read More

A combined team from Vanderbilt Engineering’s Aerospace Club and Peabody’s Department of Teaching and Learning won a prestigious outreach award from NASA for inspiring school students in the study of rocketry and other science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related topics. Read More

(John Russell/Vanderbilt) Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos hosted a lunchtime cookout for undergraduate students at the Kissam Quadrangle April 23. The event celebrated the 56-year-old residential complex, which will be torn down this summer to make way for College Halls at Kissam. The event featured food, live music… Read More

Stuart Weinberg (Vanderbilt) Stuart Weinberg, assistant professor of biomedical informatics and assistant professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt, has been named a Centers for Disease Control Childhood Immunization Champion for the state of Tennessee. The selections were announced April 21 to coincide with the launch of National Infant… Read More

(image courtesy of Camp Kesem) Applications are being accepted for Camp Kesem, a free sleep-away camp for children with a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for cancer or is in remission from cancer. The camp will be held July 22-27 at Camp… Read More

The 2012 Geriatric Update Conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at the Gladys Stringfield Owen Education Center at Baptist Hospital. This conference is designed to meet the educational needs of primary care and allied health professionals working with geriatric patients and to… Read More

Vanderbilt University will move forward with a construction project that re-imagines sports and fitness at the university following the Board of Trust’s approval Friday, April 20, of the Vanderbilt recreation center and multipurpose facility. Read More