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Center for Quantitative Sciences requests feedback about Summer Institute course offerings

The Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences hosts its 4th annual Summer Institute Aug. 7–18, 2017, and requests feedback regarding this year’s course offerings.

By VUMC News and Communications

Diet? Exercise? Sleep? Vanderbilt study identifies best immediate changes for long-term health benefits

The project began with a question — among a list of 10 lifestyle behaviors, any of which a person can change immediately, which ones have the most impact on health?

Peter Rousseau wins inaugural ‘Journal of Political Economy’ prize

Peter L. Rousseau, Vanderbilt University professor of economics and professor of history, has been named co-recipient of the inaugural Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize by the “Journal of Political Economy.”

By VUMC News and Communications

Chancellor invites campus community to series of January events promoting mental health and well-being

Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a series of January events designed to further conversations around healthy help-seeking behavior and creating a culture in which the stigma of seeking support can be eradicated.

By VUMC News and Communications

January 11, 2017

Acting NCI director Lowy to present HPV research lecture

Douglas R. Lowy, acting director of the National Cancer Institute, will deliver the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center George Daniel Brooks Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 11 a.m. in Light Hall, Room 208. The title of the presentation is “Preventing HPV-associated Cancers: Short-term and Long-term Approaches.”

By VUMC News and Communications

January 11, 2017

Adults and children needed for ‘listening in noise’ study

Vanderbilt researchers are seeking participants for a study of how children and adults listen in the presence of background noise. Specifically, the researchers want to learn why children have a harder time listening in noisy environments than adults.