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Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The Vanderbilt LGBT Policy Lab will connect interdisciplinary faculty and students to broaden Vanderbilt’s international reputation on scholarship surrounding the correlates, causes, and consequences of LGBT-related public policies. Vanderbilt is currently one of a handful of top universities worldwide with multiple… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) Vanderbilt’s researchers have provided national and international leadership in environmental sustainability and development/assessment of infrastructure materials.  The Materials Durability and Environmental Research Facilities Hub will provide core facilities in support of research on the performance and durability of natural… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative (VMI) will provide Vanderbilt the opportunity to become the first university that unifies a major precision medicine initiative with personalized microbiome studies. The VMI will blend Vanderbilt’s clinical, basic, translational and educational endeavors into a community of… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) In living organisms, several single cells interact in non-intuitive ways to support complex functions such as cognition, cardiovascular integrity and immunity. Rare single cells often maintain tissue health or, conversely, drive disease. A current challenge is to understand how large ensembles… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The initiative aims to develop a tool within the EPIC health platform to capture obesity data, catalyze trans-disciplinary conversations with area experts and improve behavioral interventions for dissemination. Two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese and… Read More

A message from Provost Susan Wente and Dean of Students Mark Bandas – July 8 Dear Vanderbilt Students, As a reminder about information we shared Thursday in an email to you, the Vanderbilt community is invited to come together Monday, July 11, at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center… Read More

February 10, 2017 Dear members of the Vanderbilt community, I’m writing to share information in response to questions we have received related to the Jan. 27 Executive Order. I want you to know that no Vanderbilt students, faculty or staff affected by the January 27 Executive Order were outside of… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The Wisdom Working Group (WWG) is rooted in the idea that older adults are lifelong innovators and experiential researchers whose insights can prove invaluable to Vanderbilt’s goal of solving “problems of importance to society” through discovery and learning.The goal here is… Read More

  Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) is an interdisciplinary, transinstitutional program designed to facilitate interaction between clinicians, engineers and scientists. ViSE has grown from a grass roots effort to a major force on the Vanderbilt campus. This reinvestment… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Vanderbilt is a leader in the application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to the neurosciences and the 7 Tesla human MRI instrument was one of the first installed in the United States. At Vanderbilt, this has been used by engineers, scientists… Read More