Research shows frogs can adapt to traffic noise
Frogs don't like living near noisy highways any better than people do, but research from Vanderbilt suggests that frogs, like hardened city-dwellers, can learn to adapt to the constant din of rumbling trucks, rolling tires and honking horns. And, just like those urbanites who can't get a good night's sleep without the sporadic sounds of sirens, some frogs have grown accustomed to the rattle and hum of the highway. View...
A personal approach to cochlear implant programming
Because the pitches that come through cochlear implants are not as finely resolved as the ones received through a normal-hearing ear, children are using an impoverished signal and a less-than-full pitch range as their sole auditory source to develop speech and language. View...
Browning leaves behind legacy of buildings and better lives for the people who use them
It's a crisp February morning and Ken Browning, just a few days short of his retirement, let his gaze travel down the Medical Center plaza. From where he stood, just outside Medical Center North, a three-block long canyon of buildings stretches south and forms the heart of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It is a very different view from the one he had on his first day at VUMC in 1984. View...
Register for March 7 and 8 "Celebrate the Difference WE Make Every Day!" event
Attendees are registered for a chance to win Predators tickets, and everybody gets a T-shirt. View...
Interstate 440 reconstruction project to snarl traffic beginning March 1
Work on the Interstate-440 reconstruction project will bring about lane closures and travel disruption through its scheduled completion in August 2020, with the major disruption beginning this weekend. View...
VUMC offers employees discounted community-supported agriculture memberships
CSA stands for community-supported agriculture and works like a subscription program for vegetables and fruits, and participants receive a share of the harvest from local farms. View...
Allstate grant bolsters Children's Hospital teen driver safety efforts
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt kicked off its yearlong campaign to empower teens to "Be in the Zone -- Turn off Your Phone" during the first of three hospital-focused seminars. View...
"Hope": On their way: Young adults forge new paths after cancer diagnoses
Christmas break during her second year of college should have been a happy and relaxing time for Brittany Burns of Brentwood, Tennessee. She was looking forward to a month off with her close-knit family and hometown friends before returning to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. View...
VUMC in the news
A roundup of a few recent stories from the press about Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...