The Monroe Carell Jr.

Country stars Dierks Bentley, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and others will perform in two concerts this month benefiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital.

Due to an increase in demand and funding at the clinic, the Student Health Center will give out free Plan B on Oct. 13 in addition to flu vaccinations available to all students throughout the month of October.

The $5.5 million construction on Vanderbilt University's Medical Center's (VUMC) Center for Experiential Learning and Assessment's (CELA) new 12,000-square-foot lab has just been completed and is composed of two programs - the Program in Human Simulation and the Simulation Technologies Program.

Construction on the expansion of the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital will begin in 2009 Information and Media Relations Officer Laurie Holloway said in a recent medical center news release.

Two teams from Vanderbilt have joined in an international experiment that could prove the existence of black holes and dark matter.

Top environmental engineering scholar and professor of civil and environmental engineering, George Hornberger, will lead the new Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment.

The Vanderbilt Medical Center will join in the hockey action this year after scoring the role of Nashville Predators' new health care and emergency medical services provider.

A gift of $20 million dollars has been pledged by the family of the late Monroe Carell Jr. to the Campaign for Children and Mothers.

On Sept. 1, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) enacted a smoking ban that prohibits smoking on any Medical Center campus, including the new clinic facility at 100 Oaks. The ban follows a series of increased restrictions on campus smoking, including the implementation of designated smoking areas on campus.