Four Vanderbilt graduate, professional schools score in top 20 in U.S. News rankings
Mar. 14, 2017—Vanderbilt University remains firmly positioned among the nation’s top graduate and professional schools in the latest U.S. News & World Report “Best Graduate School” rankings. U.S. News published new rankings March 14 for business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing schools. Also this year the magazine ranked a number of graduate programs in the social sciences...
Schools of Medicine, Nursing continue to rank among nation’s elite
Mar. 14, 2017—Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) have once again been named among the “Best Graduate Schools” in the country by U.S. News and World Report magazine. VUSM is No. 14 among the nation’s elite programs in the magazine’s 2018 rankings, which were released today. In the Schools of Medicine Specialties...
Award lauds medical education programs
Mar. 9, 2017—The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation have awarded Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) with the second annual DeWitt C. ‘Bud’ Baldwin Award, which recognizes institutions that “foster a respectful, supportive environment for medical education.” The award emphasizes the joint responsibility of health system and graduate medical education...
Neul named new director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Mar. 7, 2017—Jeffrey Neul, M.D., Ph.D., division head of Child Neurology and vice chair for Developmental Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, has been named the new director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. He will join Vanderbilt on Aug. 1. Jeffrey Neul, M.D., Ph.D. Neul succeeds Elisabeth Dykens, Ph.D., professor of Pediatrics, Psychology and Human...
University Course students meet with legislators during visit to General Assembly
Mar. 6, 2017—Members of the “The Nation’s Health” University Course pose before the Tennessee State Capitol during their recent day on the hill. (Vanderbilt University) by Christian Anderson When Tara McKay and Gilbert Gonzales designed their University Course, The Nation’s Health: From Policy to Practice, they knew a trip to the Tennessee state legislature would be a key...
Applications accepted for S10 instrumentation grants from NIH
Mar. 1, 2017—The NIH S10 program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instrumentation or an integrated system. Types of instruments supported by S10 funding include, but are not limited to, X-ray diffraction systems, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers,...
Kudos: Read about faculty and staff awards, appointments and achievements
Mar. 1, 2017—(iStockphoto) Susan Andrews, instructor in nursing, has been named to the Institute of Pediatric Nursing, a standing committee created by the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board. The institute aims to provide a unified voice for pediatric nursing through increasing awareness, strengthening education, developing resources and representing pediatric nursing in national health discussions. Gregory Barz, professor of...
Call for applications: 2017 Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund
Feb. 28, 2017—The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is now soliciting applications for research awards from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. The Cohen Fund supports high-risk, groundbreaking research with the potential to open new fields of scientific inquiry and biomedical impact. The awards honor Stanley Cohen, Vanderbilt emeritus professor of biochemistry and 1986 Nobel laureate, whose discovery...
Enroll in Vanderbilt Osher spring 2017 classes
Feb. 24, 2017—Vanderbilt Osher lifelong learners enjoy academically rigorous classes without homework (Vanderbilt University / Steve Green) The August total solar eclipse, Appalachian Dulcimer Archive, and brain and spinal cord disorders are among the diverse topics offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt this spring. Other Vanderbilt Osher classes will examine Vanderbilt Libraries in the...
Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart’s biomechanical properties
Feb. 22, 2017—The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. Now scientists at Vanderbilt University have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart’s amazing biomechanical properties. “We created the I-Wire Heart-on-a-Chip so that we can understand why cardiac cells behave the way they do by asking the cells questions, instead...