Releases

Do dyslexia, ADHD and speech and language disorders occur jointly in some children because of a shared genetic cause? Bruce Pennington, Ph.D., a world-renowned geneticist, will address this question in a lecture in the series on development and developmental disabilities on Thursday, April 8, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

Members of the Vanderbilt University and Nashville communities came together March 28 to honor the life and work of Rabbi Randall Falk at an event hosted by the University's Divinity School. Read More

Vaccines, drugs, diagnostic devices and medical surveillance are all crucial tools in the fight against bioterrorism and emerging infectious disease, but experts say they are not enough, and Congress has asked a group of national experts in the field, which includes the National Center for Emergency Preparedness (NCEP), housed at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, to target new ways to increase the level of personnel preparedness. Read More

Nurses from foreign countries that have relocated to the Nashville area and want to work as nurses in the United States will get some help thanks to a new course created by the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, in partnership with the Vanderbilt English Language Center. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Vision Research Center (VVRC) has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Eye Institute to support vision and eye research. The grant was awarded through a competitive renewal process. The previous five-year grant was for $1.9 million. Read More

Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development has again been ranked 4th in the nation among education schools by U.S. News and World Report in its annual ranking of the leading graduate and professional schools. The college's Special Education program was named No. 1 for the second year in a row. Read More

Women and teen-age girls have yet one more reason to become more physically active ñ reduction of their risk of developing the most common gynecologic malignancy, endometrial cancer, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and its Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center report. Read More

Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell has been named the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus of the Vanderbilt University Law School, and Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr., senior U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, will be given the Law School's Distinguished Service Award. Read More

Owen Graduate School of Management student John Owens was named the 2004 winner of the Graduate Business Foundation Student Leadership Award at the foundation's annual conference last weekend in Ann Arbor, Mich. Read More

Vanderbilt Medical Center will expand its LifeFlight helicopter air ambulance program by adding a base in Lebanon, Tennessee, and purchasing three new state-of-the-art helicopters at a cost of $5.4 million each. Read More

Each member of a theatrical, bohemian family invites a guest for a blissful weekend in the English countryside, a ripe setting for the urbane wit of Noel Coward in his 1925 classic "Hay Fever." Read More

Soccer World sporting goods specialty shop has chosen Vanderbilt Children's Hospital as a beneficiary of Soccer World Super Clasico (SWSC), the first major international soccer match to be held in Tennessee. Vanderbilt Children's CEO, Jim Shmerling, joined representatives of Soccer World, the two participants, the LA Galaxy and the UAG Tecos, and Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell Tuesday at the Coliseum to make the announcement. Read More

The Sweet 16 setting moves to Norman, Okla., for the Vanderbilt women's team. Vanderbilt students will gather on campus Sunday to see if the women's basketball team can keep the winning streak going against No. 6 seed Stanford. Read More

The new Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Clinic is now open for business in Franklin, Tenn. Developed by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the new clinic provides orthopaedic care in hand, spine, shoulder and sports medicine, in addition to on-site physical therapy and occupational therapy. Read More

Bill Turner never knew that drinking a popular soda could adversely affect his recovery from a double-lung transplant. What ensued was a true medical mystery, leading to the identification of a new food and drug interaction. Read More

Jeffrey Guy, M.D., assistant professor of Surgery in the division of Trauma & Surgical Critical Care, was recently named director of Vanderbilt's Regional Burn Center. Guy previously shared clinical and administrative responsibilities in the Burn Center with Ronald Barton, M.D., assistant professor of Plastic Surgery. Read More

The healing process goes better when doctors are more reflective about their feelings and take the time to better know their patients, says a speaker coming to Vanderbilt University as part of a program studying "Medicine, Health and Society." Read More

An expert on William Shakespeare will share research into the beginnings of the greatest writer in Western civilization during a lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Empowering the laity and giving them a meaningful role at all levels of the Catholic Church would help check the abuse of power at the heart of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, according to Vanderbilt University professor Paul Dokecki. Read More

The marketing faculty of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University has been ranked second in the nation for research citations by Academic Assessment Services (AAS). Read More