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What’s going on at Vanderbilt on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013

Memorial Oct. 21 for Ellen Fanning

Please join in celebrating the life of Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences and a professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, on Monday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m., in Benton Chapel.

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Celebrate 45 years of biomedical engineering at Oct. 21 birthday bash

One of the first such programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is celebrating its 45th anniversary as a program and its 25th anniversary as a department in the School of Engineering.

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Open Enrollment ends Oct. 31

Open Enrollment is happening now and all benefits-eligible employees should enroll.

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More than 4,000 trips already booked through Concur

More than 6,700 users have set up travel profiles. More than 4,125 trips have been booked, and travelers have received more than $2.6 million in reimbursements, 80 percent within three to five days of their report being approved.

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New faculty: Todd Monroe explores how neurobiology can better guide pain management

When Todd Monroe’s grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer late in the course of her dementia, the nursing home staff caring for her struggled to assess her pain.

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New faculty: Award-winning author Lorrie Moore will balance writing and teaching at Vanderbilt

Lorrie Moore, a distinguished American fiction writer who was a 2012 Chancellor’s Lecturer at Vanderbilt, has kept the corner of her eye on the university’s storied English department over the years.

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Watch Now
VUCast: Startling brain-related study on critically ill patients

In the latest VUCast: ICU patients are leaving hospitals with a dementia-like disease; What’s the fate of the Republican Party?; Hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Distinguished Visiting Professor Jon Meacham; and it's time to celebrate—the Rate My Professor 2013 rankings are in. All this and more in Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now.

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Take Note

» Sociologist John Skrentny to speak on race in the workplace

» Get 17 percent off Dell products Oct. 26-Nov. 1

» Meet men’s, women’s basketball teams at FREE picnic Nov. 1

» Meet and mingle with local tech entrepreneurs Oct. 24

» A Taste of Bellevue scheduled for Nov. 2

» New Ventures Valuation Workshop scheduled for Nov. 1

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HR News

» Promote your campus organization or department at Wellness Bash Oct. 30

» ‘Food Day’ and last Vanderbilt Farmers’ Market Oct. 24

» LASIK discount for VU employees

» Occupational Health Clinic brings flu shot to you

» Faculty-Staff Health and Wellness newsletter now available online

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Events

Oct. 22 — 7 p.m.
Film: "Sometimes in April"

Oct. 23 — 7 p.m.
Studio VU Lecture Series: Experimental filmmaker Leighton Pierce

Oct. 23 — 7 p.m.
Philip Gourevitch: "The Rwandan Genocide and its Aftermath"

Oct. 24 — 4 p.m.
Executive Development Institute Fall Open House

Oct. 25 — 4 p.m.
John Skrentny: "Racial Realism in the New American Workplace"

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