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Month: March 2012

  • Honky-Tonk Heroes and Healing Hands

    Honky-Tonk Heroes and Healing Hands

    Bass guitarist and keyboardist Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts poses with young fans Emma Watson (left) and Gracelyn Mansfield before a sold-out 2007 Rascal Flatts concert at Nashville鈥檚 downtown arena. With all proceeds from the show benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children鈥檚 Hospital at Vanderbilt, it was the largest single fundraising… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Hothouse for Scientists

    Hothouse for Scientists

    Experience, so they say, is the best teacher. But when it comes to cutting-edge laboratory-based research, hands-on work often is the exclusive purview of graduate students and faculty. So how does an undergraduate student interested in research go about obtaining the experience and exposure that can help launch a career?… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • The President鈥檚 Corner

    The President鈥檚 Corner

    While the Vanderbilt Alumni Association doesn鈥檛 hold caucuses, primaries or candidate debates, we do engage annually in the very important task of selecting new volunteer leadership and recognizing outstanding alumni. That said, I would like to call your attention to three nomination processes that are currently under way and to… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Podcasts for Career Advice

    Podcasts for Career Advice

    The Vanderbilt Alumni Association now offers podcasts for alumni in career transition. Featuring several different career experts, these videos offer tips and other advice on best practices to help with your job search. Access them at vanderbilt.edu/alumni/career. Remember that the Alumni Association is a great source… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Keep Your Vanderbilt Connections Strong

    Keep Your Vanderbilt Connections Strong

    The Vanderbilt Alumni Association seeks to expand its shared interest groups, which bring together alumni with a common interest or connection, such as undergraduate student organizations, sports, clubs, social/ethnic groups and more. These groups can come together for educational and social events, networking, and connecting with on-campus groups鈥攅ssentially functioning as… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Shots Heard Round the World

    Shots Heard Round the World

    鈥淔lulapalooza,鈥 a drill of Vanderbilt University Medical Center鈥檚 mass vaccination plan, broke the Guinness world record for most vaccinations given in an eight-hour period. Free flu vaccines were given to 12,850 Vanderbilt faculty, staff, students and volunteers during the October event鈥攎ore than doubling the previous record. Forty-four nurses at a… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Contributors for the Spring 2012 Issue

    Contributors for the Spring 2012 Issue

    Helen Hudson Helen Hudson, MEd鈥94, has enjoyed a varied career: high school English teacher, songwriter, recording artist, actress, therapist, speaker and author. Her memoir, Kissing Tomatoes, which details the 13 years she and her husband cared for her grandmother with Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, was profiled recently in Counseling Today, and… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Vanderbilt Magazine Staff – Spring 2012

    Vanderbilt Magazine Staff – Spring 2012

    COVER: Monroe Carell Jr. Children鈥檚 Hospital patient Ansley McLaurin gets a backstage tour of the Grand Ole Opry House from Rascal Flatts members Jay DeMarcus, Joe Don Rooney and Gary LeVox. Rascal Flatts, who recently became the newest members of the Opry, personi铿乪s the growing trend of Nashville entertainers who… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Training Program Assesses Returning Soldiers鈥 Mental Health Needs

    Training Program Assesses Returning Soldiers鈥 Mental Health Needs

    With the official end of the U.S. war in Iraq and the return home of thousands of service members, Vanderbilt researchers are working with the Department of Defense to ensure mental health concerns associated with deployments are not overlooked. Faculty and staff of Vanderbilt School of Medicine are conducting workshops… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Study Confirms Safety of Vaccines

    Study Confirms Safety of Vaccines

    A report released by the Institute of Medicine last September confirms the safety of eight vaccines studied by a committee of experts convened in 2009 to review epidemiological, clinical and biological evidence regarding adverse health events. The committee鈥攃haired by Vanderbilt鈥檚 Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, the Craig鈥揥eaver Chair in Pediatrics, professor… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Pocketbook Politics and Short Memories

    Pocketbook Politics and Short Memories

    One factor will go a long way toward determining whether President Obama鈥攐r any incumbent president鈥攊s re-elected, claims a Vanderbilt political scientist. Here it is: If the real disposable incomes of voters are growing鈥攅ven modestly鈥攊n the six months before Election Day, Obama is likely to win. If they aren鈥檛, he is… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • From the Readers

    From the Readers

    Easy Money, Hard Lessons This is the best article [鈥淢issteps to Mayhem,鈥 Summer 2011] I have read concerning our current financial situation and the hard choices that must be made. Human nature ignores the truth when it involves hard decisions and sacrifice, but Dr. Burry… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • From the Editor: Terms of Engagement

    From the Editor: Terms of Engagement

    Vanderbilt Magazine's first cover after the last redesign in 2002. This issue of Vanderbilt Magazine represents the last of its kind鈥攂ut by no means signals the end of Vanderbilt鈥檚 flagship publication. This year we are rethinking and redesigning the magazine, an undertaking I find both thrilling and humbling. The current… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • A New Tradition of Giving

    A New Tradition of Giving

    As the first class to have begun its Vanderbilt education experience at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, the Class of 2012 has grown accustomed to having the spotlight on it. Now, as members of that class prepare to receive their diplomas in May, they already are demonstrating leadership and innovation… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • The Power of Scholarships for Medical Students

    The Power of Scholarships for Medical Students

    Ir猫ne Mathieu received a Canby Robinson Society scholarship. As a Fulbright scholar in the Dominican Republic, Ir猫ne Mathieu developed a passion for global health. But she knew attending medical school would likely leave her with substantial debt. A native of Virginia and graduate of The College of William & Mary,… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Inspiring Future Generations

    Inspiring Future Generations

    Dr. W. Bedford Waters celebrates with his mother, Irene Georgia Bedford Waters, on her 90th birthday. Dr. W. Bedford Waters, BA鈥70, MD鈥74, established the Irene Georgia Bedford Waters Scholarship in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine to honor his mother, whose compassion and encouragement brightened the world around her. Irene… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Visual Arts: Molten Mysteries

    Visual Arts: Molten Mysteries

    Santisteban in his Franklin, Tenn., studio Jose Santisteban鈥攂eads of perspiration glistening on his brow鈥攔otates a long, thin metal tube tipped with a bubble of honey-colored molten glass inside a furnace that鈥檚 been heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. As African jazz plays in the background, Santisteban removes the pipe from the… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Books and Writers: A Focus on Family

    Books and Writers: A Focus on Family

    The year 2011 was a very good one for writer Kevin Wilson, BA鈥00. His first novel, The Family Fang, was published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, in August to glowing reviews, and he was the subject of an admiring profile in The New York Times. He did a 12-city… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Recent Books

    Recent Books

    Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America by Steven Tepper, associate professor of sociology and associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy (2011, University of Chicago Press) Tepper鈥檚 book suggests that artists who simply cite the First Amendment,… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012

  • Music: Crossing Over to Success

    Music: Crossing Over to Success

    Singer Chris Mann is a finalist on NBC's The Voice. Singer Chris Mann, BMus鈥04, knows what it鈥檚 like to have the rug pulled out from under him. Just six weeks before his first album was scheduled to come out, the record company canceled the project. 鈥淚 had already recorded the… Read More

    Mar 22, 2012