VUMC News and Communications

March 18, 2009

Treat health insurance like auto insurance and hold people accountable

The keys to fixing the U.S. health care system are to hold people accountable for their actions; treat health insurance like auto insurance and tax individual’s health care benefits said Larry Van Horn, a leading expert and researcher on health care management and economics.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 27, 2009

Molecular biologist receives Humboldt Research Award

Ellen H. Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, has received a 2009 Humboldt Research Award.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 13, 2009

Video: State of the Medical Center Address

Watch video of Dr. Harry Jacobson, vice chancellor for Health Affairs, delivering the annual State of the Medical Center Address.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 12, 2009

MEDIA ADVISORY: Vanderbilt University students dance all night for a good cause Feb. 13-14

Hundreds of Vanderbilt students will hit the dance floor Feb. 13-14 during Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run event to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Children’s Miracle Network. Dance Marathon will be held from 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, until 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Student Recreation Center on Vanderbilt’s campus. The event is open to the public and all proceeds from Dance Marathon will go to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 11, 2009

Video: Baby Einsteins Everywhere – Young Children and Video

Watch video of a talk by Georgene Troseth, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, Peabody College.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 29, 2009

Vanderbilt biochemist receives 2009 Sigma Xi award

Brandt F. Eichman, assistant professor of biological sciences and biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, has received Sigma Xi’s Young Investigator Award.

By VUMC News and Communications
December 10, 2008

Video: How the brain thinks about crime and punishment

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December 9, 2008

First 3D images obtained of core component of molecular machinery used for cell reproduction

For the first time, structural biologists have managed to obtain the detailed three-dimensional structure of one of the proteins that form the core of the complex molecular machine, called the replisome, that plant and animal cells assemble to copy their DNA as the first step in cell reproduction.
By VUMC News and Communications
December 5, 2008

Video: The Big Bang Broth: Cooking Primordial Soup

Watch video of a Dec. 3 Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box presentation.
By VUMC News and Communications
November 3, 2008

Video: Bill Frist at the Health Care Business Alliance

Watch video of Bill Frist speaking at the inaugural Health Care Business Alliance hosted by the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 15, 2008

Video: Forum on pediatric obesity

Watch video of an Oct. 15 forum on pediatric obesity, "Developing Unique Partnerships to Halt the Epidemic."
By VUMC News and Communications
October 14, 2008

Senator Bill Frist to teach MBA & medical students at Vanderbilt

Former United States Senate Majority Leader and transplant surgeon Bill Frist, M.D., is returning to Vanderbilt to lead a first-of-its-kind academic experience at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.
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