VUMC News and Communications Archive — Page 177 of 391
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May 17, 2017
Remembering Floyd Dennis, disability civil rights advocate
H. Floyd Dennis, professor of special education, emeritus, died April 17 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was 89. As a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center researcher, Dennis was founding director of the Kennedy Center Institute on Youth and Social Development. -
May 11, 2017
Commencement 2017 schedule
Commencement begins at 9 a.m. Friday, May 12. -
May 11, 2017
May the 4th be with you
Star Wars characters visited with patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt on May 4, a date known among Star Wars enthusiasts as “May the 4th be with you” day. -
May 11, 2017
Rush honored by Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
The Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) recently named Meg Rush, M.D., as the 2017 JDRF Living & Giving Honoree. -
May 11, 2017
New interactive tool lets VUMC community share creative ideas
Sharing ideas is powerful. IdeaShare, a tool to share ideas among groups of people, and even vote about which ideas you like best, is coming to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) beginning May 16. -
May 11, 2017
Top cancer researchers reveal latest findings at VICC science retreat
Ordinary cells can be transformed into cancer cells through epigenetics — changes to DNA that turn genes on or off. Those gene changes can protect cells or make them vulnerable to disease processes including cancer.