VUMC News and Communications Archive

November 9, 2009

Watch: Life on the International Space Station

Watch video of a Nov. 5 talk by Sandra Mangus, Ph.D., NASA Astronaut, Flight Engineer and Science Officer aboard the International Space Station.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 5, 2009

Watch: Critical Care Tower ribbon cutting

Watch the Nov. 5 ribbon cutting ceremony for Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s new 11-story, $169 million Critical Care Tower.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 30, 2009

Watch: “Worlds Above the Sky: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope”

Watch video of an Oct. 28 talk, “Worlds Above the Sky: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope,” by Dr. Bob O’Dell, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 30, 2009

Inconspicuous leaf beetles reveal environment’s role in formation of new species

Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 21, 2009

Vanderbilt University receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Innovative Global Health Research

Vanderbilt University announced Oct. 21 that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Wright and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Rick Haselton, titled “Coffee Ring Stain Diagnostics for Malaria.”

By VUMC News and Communications
October 16, 2009

Video: “The Adventure of Exploration in America”

Watch video of an Oct. 14 talk, “Working at the Frontier: The Process and Adventure of Exploration,” by Rick Chappell, research professor of physics.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 13, 2009

Recovery Act gives boost to Vanderbilt’s scientific and medical research

Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law in February, it has given a significant boost to scientific and medical research at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 8, 2009

Video: Health Care Business Alliance keynote speech

Health care business leaders and experts tackle hot button issues in health care as Vanderbilt hosts the Health Care Business Alliance. Watch the Oct. 2 keynote speech by Randall Spratt, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson Corporation.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 8, 2009

Video: “Debating Obama’s Health Care Reform”

Health care business leaders and experts tackle hot button issues in health care as Vanderbilt hosts the Health Care Business Alliance. Watch the Oct. 2 panel discussion.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 8, 2009

Vanderbilt biologist receives early career development award to study tree of life

Antonis Rokas is a member of a small cadre of scientists who are applying the growing power of genomics to untangle and correctly arrange the branches of the tree of life.
October 5, 2009

First direct information about the prion’s molecular structure reported

A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. In addition, the study has revealed surprisingly large structural differences between natural prions and the closest synthetic analogs that scientists have created in the lab.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 1, 2009

Vanderbilt astronomers participate in new search for dark energy

The most ambitious attempt yet to trace the history of the universe has seen "first light." The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), took its first astronomical data on the night of Sept. 14-15 at the Sloan Foundation telescope in New Mexico.
By VUMC News and Communications