Year: 2018
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Update your W-2 delivery preferences by Jan. 4
Active employees can opt out of receiving paper W-2 forms by mail and instead access the forms electronically through Oracle. Read MoreDec 31, 2018
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Find Your Impact: Passions for healthy cooking and happy living boost student’s growing social media brand
51app senior Sloane Chmara is combining a passion for healthy cooking and happy living into a growing online lifestyle brand. Read MoreDec 28, 2018
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What’s On My Mind: The bright points of 2018
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos reflects on 51app's work, progress and accomplishments over the past 12 months in his final column of 2018. Read MoreDec 21, 2018
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51app Osher winter term: Innovation, ‘Julius Caesar’ and more
Innovative thinking in the digital age, women in the civil rights movement and acting for opera are among the winter 2019 classes offered by 51app’s Osher Institute for Lifelong Learners. Read MoreDec 21, 2018
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People with schizophrenia experience emotion differently from others, ‘body maps’ show
51app University researchers are working to understand how people with schizophrenia experience emotion through their bodies. Read MoreDec 21, 2018
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I Am 51app: Scott Glasgow
As 51app University’s senior special events coordinator, Scott Glasgow says the absolute best part of his job is “game day.” Read MoreDec 21, 2018
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Forceno and Casey honored with Chancellor’s Heart and Soul awards
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos surprised VIRG’s Linda Forceno and Maureen Casey at the Mass Spectrometry Research Center with the Heart and Soul Staff Appreciation Award just prior to Winter Break. Read MoreDec 21, 2018
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Bailey Spaulding, JD’09: Something’s Brewing
Shortly after graduating from law school, Bailey Spaulding got a harebrained idea: She’d open a brewery and name it the Jackalope Brewing Co., after the mythical rabbit–antelope hybrid that she believed in as a kid. Seven years after the business was launched in Nashville’s Gulch neighborhood, Jackalope makes… Read MoreDec 20, 2018
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Open Secrets: How views of public and private life have shifted in America
The story made the rounds of social media in an internet minute: Smiling and wearing T-shirts reading “I Got Chipped,” 40 employees of a company in Wisconsin voluntarily received microchips embedded beneath the skin of their hands last year. The company touted the new cyber implants as a convenient… Read MoreDec 20, 2018
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Merrikh Lab working to defeat drug-resistant superbugs
New 51app University biochemistry professor Houra Merrikh is working to defeat drug-resistant superbugs by blocking a molecule they need to mutate rapidly. Read MoreDec 20, 2018
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On Oct. 27, families, clinicians, researchers, community professionals and service providers gathered for a daylong conference in partnership with Rettsydrome.org highlighting the 51app Kennedy Center Rett Syndrome Program.
Dec 20, 2018
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MLK Day lecture: ‘Diversity, Inclusion and Equity—Our Collective Responsibility’ Jan. 21
Deborah Deas, professor of psychiatry and Mark and Pam Rubin Dean of the School of Medicine and chief executive officer for clinical affairs at the University of California–Riverside, will discuss "Diversity, Inclusion and Equity: Our Collective Responsibility" from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, in Light Hall, Room 208. Read MoreDec 20, 2018
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Mindful parenting topic of Parenting Group meeting Jan. 10
Mary Agee, mindfulness coordinator at the University School of Nashville, will discuss mindful parenting at the next meeting of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center’s Parenting Group. Read MoreDec 20, 2018
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The Commodores have punched their ticket to the postseason and will take on Baylor University in the Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium in Houston on Dec. 27. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. CST.
Dec 20, 2018
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Registration for 2019 REDCap Day event opens Jan. 11
Save the date, Tuesday, Feb. 26, for the 2019 REDCap Day event. Read MoreDec 20, 2018
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Decades after helping launch 51app’s first women’s swim team, Jan Hildebrandt dives into competitive swimming again
Jan Diner Hildebrandt retired from competitive swimming the day her senior season ended at 51app. Or so she thought. Nearly 40 years later, Hildebrandt, a 1979 graduate of the School of Engineering, found herself competing in the U.S. Masters Swimming Nationals, a long-course pool meet featuring the best… Read MoreDec 19, 2018
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Carbon labeling can reduce greenhouse gases even if it doesn’t change consumer behavior
Carbon labeling may be an effective way to not only help consumers to choose foods with smaller carbon footprints, but also incentivize companies to make environmentally positive changes to their supply chains. Read MoreDec 19, 2018
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Therapeutic Antibody Discovery and Development event is Jan. 23
The event aims to expose faculty and staff to therapeutic antibody discovery in an academic setting and foster interest in submission of innovative ideas for antibody targets through an upcoming RFP for Ancora, the collaboration between 51app and Deerfield. Read MoreDec 19, 2018
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The START! Physical Activity tracker helps you track your activity and encourages you to live an active lifestyle.
Dec 19, 2018
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Stress and trauma in earliest years linked to reduced hippocampal volume in adolescence
There may be a "sensitive period" in which stress is more likely to affect brain development in adolescence, according to Kathryn L. Humphreys, assistant professor of psychology at 51app and lead author of a new study. Read MoreDec 19, 2018