Releases

Acclaimed poet Mary Leader will read from her work this month at Vanderbilt University.Leader, author of the award-winning collections Red Signature and The Penultimate Suitor, will read at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28, in Room 101 of Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. The reading is free and open to the public. Read More

Jon H. Kaas, Vanderbilt University Centennial Professor of Psychology, has received the 2006 Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of neurobiology. Read More

Parents of young children with autism need cutting-edge information and high-quality support. Vanderbilt Kennedy TRIAD (Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders) has established a new program for parents of young children who have, or are suspected of having, an autism spectrum disorder. Read More

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and the Center for Nonprofit Management will hold an information session Thursday, Nov. 9, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. regarding how to apply for an annual tuition sponsorship of an area nonprofit executive to attend the Vanderbilt Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Read More

Watch video by Vanderbilt\'s student video bloggers Brittany Adkins and Kris Bahlke about The Commons, a new residential living experience which will bring together all first-year students in a community of 10 residence halls to be known as "houses" on Vanderbilt\'s Peabody College campus. Read More

The Vanderbilt News Service has won the Society for New Communications Research 2006 Award of Merit in the academic / research category for its news Web site, VUCast (www.vanderbilt.edu/news). Read More

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will expand its degree offerings to include a master‘s degree in accountancy beginning in fall 2007.The 10-month program is intended for non-accounting undergraduates who aspire to launch their careers with one of the top five global accounting firms — Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read More

The public is invited to join over 200 children as they celebrate diverse cultures at the Susan Gray School‘s Second Annual Holidays Around the World event Nov. 11 from 5 to 9 p.m. Proceeds from the event will go toward the construction of a new, fully accessible preschool playground at the school. Read More

One of the biggest stories in global financial markets this summer was China‘s switch from pegging its currency to the dollar, to tying the yuan to a basket of currencies. The switch also revalued the yuan by 2.1 percent in relation to the dollar. Read More

Providing charity care to Middle Tennessee‘s most financially vulnerable individuals is an expensive proposition √≥ especially so for a large, comprehensive health care institution such as Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which, in addition to seeing the most patients, also sees the sickest. Read More

In a memorable conclusion to their series of U.S. senatorial debates, Democrat Congressman Harold Ford Jr. and Republican Bob Corker battled Oct. 28 at Vanderbilt‘s Ingram Hall in a question-and-answer-format town hall forum. Read More

William B. Akers and Fred J. Cassetty Jr. received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering during the Engineering Celebration Dinner held at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Thursday, Oct. 19. Read More

Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos will talk about her battle with anorexia Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read More

Vanderbilt experts are available to discuss negative ads, the 2008 presidential election, the war in Iraq and more in relation to Tennessee‘s pivotal Senate race. The candidates, Democrat Harold Ford Jr. and Republican Bob Corker, met at the university on Oct. 28 in a live televised town hall forum. Read More

Wit‘s End, a classic romantic comedy about lovers searching for companionship and enlightenment in a battle between the heart and mind, debuts Nov. 9 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. This modern adaptation of La dama boba was done by Edward Friedman, Vanderbilt professor of Spanish and comparative literature. Playwright Lope de Vega, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was a popular and prolific writer during the siglo de oro, Spain‘s Golden Age of Drama. Read More

No one would have blamed the Rev. James Lawson if he‘d treated his return to Vanderbilt University — nearly four decades after his controversial expulsion — as a feel-good victory lap. The 78-year-old civil rights leader and pastor could have accepted accolades while younger men and women continued the struggles he fought for so long. Read More

In a key race with national implications, Tennessee‘s U.S. Senate candidates will meet one last time before the mid-term elections at a live televised town hall forum Saturday, Oct. 28, at Vanderbilt University. Democrat Harold Ford Jr. and Republican Bob Corker will answer audience questions, pre-screened by the League of Women Voters, at the forum at Vanderbilt‘s Ingram Hall from 7 to 8 p.m. NewsChannel 5, WTVF-TV, the League of Women Voters of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University are sponsoring the forum that will be offered to CBS affiliates throughout the state. Non-CBS stations in the state can record the program off air from the CBS affiliate in your city. Read More

The Southern Economic Association has chosen Stephen G. Buckles, senior lecturer in economics at Vanderbilt University, as the recipient of the Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award for his outstanding contributions to economics education. Read More

About 75 scholars, artists, art administrators and university leaders will meet at Vanderbilt University Nov. 10-11 to explore ways to strengthen interconnections between the arts and college campuses. The aim of the meeting is to produce a national research agenda that addresses these interconnections. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College of education of human development has created a new endowed chair in honor of one its most influential faculty, Susan Gray. Ann Kaiser, professor of special education and psychology and deputy director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center‘s Research Program on Families, has been named as the holder of the new chair. Read More