Daily Archives: August 6, 2018

A roundup of a few recent stories from the press about Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Continue reading →

On a humid summer day in 2006, Taylor Stokes became ill on a plane, from dehydration and inhaling fumes on the jetway. What misery. Stokes, however, describes that unpleasant experience as “providential.” It led to a lung cancer diagnosis. Continue reading →

VUMC IT has been managing several changes to enable the Medical Center to move to its new email environment, Microsoft Office 365. With steps one and two nearly complete, our focus turns to Step 3, migrating email content to the new Microsoft Office 365 environment.​

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Hi, my name is Katie. I have a brain tumor — please don’t be shocked. It sounds worse than it is. Continue reading →

Are you preparing materials for a journal submission, industry conference, blog article, or other outlet that you think would be strengthened through the use of screenshots from eStar? Keep in mind that, because eStar is considered the intellectual pro… Continue reading →

Trouble waiting to happen. Sometimes it’s already occurred. Presenting the fifth collection of photographs submitted by VUMC employees to the 2018 “VUMC Voice” Pet Photo Contest.
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Since it began 16 years ago, the Vanderbilt Summer Science Academy (VSSA) has provided research experiences for roughly 2,000 undergraduates from colleges around the country. Nearly half are members of under-represented minority groups; many are the fi… Continue reading →

The Nashville Collaborative, a unique academic-community partnership between Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Nashville Metropolitan Board of Parks and Recreation, recently celebrated 10 years of work aimed at improving children’… Continue reading →

The Vanderbilt football stadium will host Beyonce/Jay-Z’s “On the Run II” tour on Thursday, Aug. 23. The concert is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.
With the concert being scheduled on a workday, some adjustments in parking and traffic flow are being m… Continue reading →