Year: 2006

Performers will write fresh material for every performance and the audience will help select what is presented during the run of dramablog: An Exploration of the Political and the Personal, the last show of the season by the Vanderbilt Department of Theatre. Read More

Juan Melendez spent 17 years, eight months and one day on Florida's death row for a crime he did not commit. He will share his story Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m. in Vanderbilt University's Sarratt Cinema. Read More

Former U.S. senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards spoke March 21 at Langford Auditorium as part of Vanderbilt\'s annual Impact Symposium. Though the theme of the symposium was "Disappearing Borders," Edwards spent the bulk of his lecture discussing poverty, which he called "the greatest moral issue of our time." Read More

Tony Bland, a 15-year veteran of Vanderbilt's LifeFlight, has been named "EMT of the Year" by the Tennessee Ambulance Service Association. Read More

Financial journalist and author Peter Brimelow addressed an audience of nearly 200 in Langford Auditorium March 20 as he spoke on "disappearing borders" - the theme of this year's IMPACT Symposium. Read More

U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., church leaders, Vanderbilt scholars and others will discuss the role of the black church in public policy activism during a three-day conference sponsored by the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

Researchers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center are studying whether exercise can help curb memory and cognitive problems experienced by many cancer survivors following chemotherapy. Read More

"Sexuality, Spirituality and Religion: What's the Connection?" is the topic of the Rev. Debra W. Haffner's talk presented as Vanderbilt University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's annual lecture on Tuesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. Read More

Many are familiar with the basic facts that surround the founding of Vanderbilt University in 1873, but the unusual confluence of characters and events that led to this unlikely gift is the stuff of fiction. Historian Michael McGerr recounted Cornelius Vanderbilt\'s journey from single-minded businessman to university patron in the inaugural Founder\'s Day Lecture on March 16. Read More

Dr. Richard A. Meserve, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, gave the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture at Vanderbilt March 13 on the "nuclear renaissance in the U.S." . Read More

Dr. Richard A. Meserve, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, gave the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture at Vanderbilt March 13 on the "nuclear renaissance in the U.S." . Read More

The role that physical location and urban design play in the social, economic, sexual, artistic and religious development of cities was the topic of a lecture by urban planning expert Edward Soja at the Wyatt Center Rotunda on the Vanderbilt Peabody campus, Monday, March 13. Read More

Neil Lerner, associate professor of music at Davidson College, discussed music, horror film and disability in the 1946 film "The Beast with Five Fingers," Feb. 23 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The use of brain scans to detect Alzheimer\'s disease was the topic of a lecture by Dr. John Csernansky, director of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Washington University, St. Louis, at Vanderbilt University March 9. The lecture was part of the Brainstorm 2006 lecture and event series. Read More

The use of brain scans to detect Alzheimer's disease was the topic of a lecture by Dr. John Csernansky, director of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Washington University, St. Louis, at Vanderbilt University March 9. The lecture was part of the Brainstorm 2006 lecture and event series. Read More

Vanderbilt Information Technology Services is now offering expanded streaming media services to share interesting lectures, sporting events, ceremonies and more with viewers around the world. Read More

Once a week, the Writing about Religion class meets. Ray Waddle, a Vanderbilt University adjunct professor and former religion editor at The Tennessean, leads the give-and-take. In many ways, it's a typical class at Vanderbilt Divinity School — except that the meeting isn't actually at Vanderbilt's scenic midtown campus. And some of the students are older and more world weary than usual. Read More

Public tickets for Vanderbilt University's annual Impact Symposium go on sale today and are available through Ticketmaster. Former U.S. senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards and conservative journalist Peter Brimelow, known for his controversial writings on immigration policy, are the event's featured speakers. Read More

A disturbing nationwide trend has been documented by a researcher at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Pity the brown dwarf. It's too large to be a planet, but too small to be a star. Although these "failed stars" are neither fish nor fowl, they play an important role in the cosmic scheme of things. Many astronomers think that they may actually be the most common product of the stellar formation process. So information about brown dwarfs can provide valuable new insights into the dynamic processes that produce stars out of collapsing whirlpools of interstellar dust and gas. Read More