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Take charge of benefits during Open Enrollment Oct. 1-14
Open Enrollment, the annual opportunity for benefits-eligible employees to choose their benefits and elect the coverage that fits their needs for the coming year, begins at 8 a.m. Oct. 1 and ends at 5 p.m. Oct. 14. Read MoreSep 9, 2011
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At the Ready
VEMS puts undergrads on the front lines of medicine Members of the Vanderbilt Emergency Medical Society undergo CPR instructor training through the Vanderbilt Resuscitation Program. (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Pendell Meyers is planning a career in medicine, so the summer after his freshman year at Vanderbilt he got a job drawing… Read MoreSep 1, 2011
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In Conversation with Billy Collins
The former U.S. poet laureate discusses his upcoming Vanderbilt residency and the importance of a poem’s ‘shape’ In the opinion of poet Billy Collins, poetry needs to be everywhere. “I think ambushing people with poems on billboards, buses,… Read MoreSep 1, 2011
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Editor’s Note
(image courtesy of Helene Dunbar) Ten years ago, tragic events took place that changed America forever. There is no getting around that. There exists in our memories the time before Sept. 11, 2001, and the time after it, and those time periods are profoundly different. The enormity of the… Read MoreSep 1, 2011
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Kim Drake, What’s Your Story?
(John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Thumbing through a handful of her daughter’s recently taken senior photos, Kim Drake was a little tearful. “I’m having a mother moment,” she explained before tucking them away to offer some friendly guidance to a patient at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Patient and Family Resource… Read MoreSep 1, 2011
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It’s All Connected
The Sustainability Project sparks a campus dialogue about our relationship with the environment and commitment to its future (Neil Brake/Vanderbilt) Bangladesh, in South Asia, is a flat, low-lying land situated between the melting snowcaps of the Himalayas… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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In Conversation
Tim Corbin reflects on the best baseball team in school history Coach Tim Corbin (John Russell/Vanderbilt) For a head baseball coach, Tim Corbin quite easily slides away… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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Rethinking History
Frank Wcislo examines how we consider Russia and its leaders two decades after the Cold War Frank Wcislo, associate professor of history (John Russell/Vanderbilt) As Soviet Russia disintegrated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Frank Wcislo and other… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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Snjezana Bojic, What’s Your Story?
The Vanderbilt Child and Family Center's Zana Bojic (Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) Seventeen years ago, Snjezana Bojic left her home in war-torn Bosnia as a refugee looking to escape the brutality and deprivation of that devastating conflict. She was 22 years old, and it was the second year of a war characterized… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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Between Two Worlds
Cristiana Grigore is Roma, a member of the largest ethnic minority in Europe. Over the course of her journey from her native Romania to Peabody College at Vanderbilt, she has become an ambassador for her people, an advocate for social inclusion, and is striving to make a difference at the international level. Read MoreJun 2, 2011
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Help in a Pinch
What do you do when you have a sick child but can’t miss work? An elderly parent who needs care but you just can’t be there? Parents in a Pinch, Vanderbilt’s new backup care benefit, provides trusted help when harried employees need it most. Read MoreJun 2, 2011
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Stripped Away
There are any number of circumstances in which people can effectively lose some or most of their basic rights, says Colin Dayan, the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities. In her new research, Dayan argues that the law has been refined so that it can be used to deny the very rights it’s presumably there to protect. Read MoreJun 2, 2011
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The Last Word
Terrie Barrow has found health, hope and healing in her "urban garden." Read MoreJun 2, 2011
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Three Stories
Graduates Shannon Hoffman, Nehal Mehta and Karen White come from different backgrounds and have different interests, but each will use their significant talents and valuable lessons learned at Vanderbilt to affect change in the world. Read MoreMay 5, 2011
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In Conversation with … James Hudnut-Beumler
Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler takes heart in the fact that when times are tough, his graduates offer comfort and guidance to an ailing world. Read MoreMay 5, 2011
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Joy in the Journey
Psychology professor Isabel Gauthier, an expert in the science of face recognition, relishes the process of discovery – and mentoring graduate students along the way. Read MoreMay 5, 2011
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The Last Word
Hank Murrey, area maintenance supervisor for The Commons, applies his handyman skills at Whippoorwill Day Camp, a summertime tradition for area children for the last 40 years. Read MoreMay 5, 2011
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A Grand Experiment
The Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach puts science in the hands of students Angela Eeds, director of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt, gives instruction to Chelsea Guo and Augtonia Coleman, freshmen at Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School. Photo by Daniel Dubois They treated him like a rock… Read MoreApr 4, 2011
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Stylish Send-off
This year’s Commencement will incorporate cool technology, sleek branding and armchair viewing Tricky names should ring out more accurately at Vanderbilt’s Commencement exercises this year. Finding a comfortable place to watch the festivities also will be easier. Innovative new technology to correctly announce graduates’ names will free up Vanderbilt’s… Read MoreApr 4, 2011