Everyone knew everyone in Patty Wright’s hometown of Scottsville, Kentucky, population 4,336.

Neil Osheroff, Ph.D., has been named director of the Academy for Excellence in Education. He succeeds Lillian Nanney, Ph.D., who served as director since the Academy’s inception in 2007.

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded two grants to faculty in the Department of Ophthalmology.

A new method developed at Vanderbilt may help “inventory” all tumor-promoting genes.

Frank Harrell Jr., Ph.D., professor of Biostatistics and founding chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Biostatistics in 2003, will step down as chair after the completion of a national search for his successor.

Drugs that are being used clinically to treat obesity and diabetes may also have a role in treating drug abuse.

Parenting behaviors may be an important target for improving outcomes in adolescents with diabetes.