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Jack Forstman, who built significant community and national support for the Vanderbilt Divinity School while serving as a beloved mentor and leader to many generations of students and faculty, passed away June 17. Read More

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hundreds gathered at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory June 5 to witness the historic transit of Venus across the sun. (Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) About 500 people gathered at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory June 5 to see the 2012 transit of Venus across the sun, an event that astronomers say won’t happen… Read More

Noticed an increase of construction workers and equipment in your area? Seen signs that read “Construction Zone” as you make your way across campus? With many students and faculty away, summer is an ideal time to make headway on major construction projects that will improve and transform Vanderbilt’s campus. Some… Read More

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is again named among the nation’s leaders in pediatric health care in U.S. News & World Report magazine’s annual Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Hospital (courtesy of Eskind Biomedical Library Archives) VUMC Through Time is a new historical image website from the Eskind Biomedical Library. It contains more than 1,000 images depicting Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s people and places, from the late 19th century to… Read More

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 burgers,… Read More

"Material Glance (Llambrec Material)" by Antoni Tàpies. Lithograph, 1975. (image courtesy of Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery) Material Glance: A Portfolio of Lithographs by Antoni Tàpies and Poems by Shūzō Takiguchi is now on view at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery. Published in 1975, Material Glance (Llambrec Material) brings together two important… Read More

Watch video of Mims Hall at Kissam Quadrangle as it is torn down. Construction began in mid-May on College Halls at the current site of Kissam Quadrangle. The two-year, $115 million project will tear down the six existing dorms that comprise Kissam Quad in favor of two large, state-of-the-art residential… Read More