Year: 2007

Education experts from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development will be presenting their latest research April 9-13, 2007, in Chicago at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference. Read More

Vanderbilt engineers have won an award from Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time, online, detailed and accurate picture of air quality in large metropolitan areas like Nashville. The mobile air quality monitoring system will make it possible to monitor air quality more accurately than the current system of fixed stations performing low-resolution sampling by including car-mounted sensors that measure, process and report emission levels. Read More

Routine infant immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has caused a 39 percent fall in all-cause pneumonia hospital admission rates for American children under 2, according to an article published in this week's edition of The Lancet. Read More

The results of the latest and most comprehensive study of public opinion in the Americas concludes that Latin America is drifting toward the political left and experiencing a rise in populism. Read More

Some search for God in the contemplative routine of a monastery. Bonnie Miller-McLemore found the divine in piles of laundry needing folding, the sounds of her sons carousing in a playground and "the stench of a dirty diaper, wiping the bottom of a child." Read More

James McPherson, a noted American Civil War historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, will deliver a public lecture at Vanderbilt University on May 2. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a panel discussion, "Keeping Our Promise: HIV/AIDS Ministry and the Black Church" on April 10, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. in room G-23 at the Divinity School. Read More

The first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church will speak at Vanderbilt University this month. Read More

Civil rights leader and non-violent activist the Rev. James Lawson will speak at Vanderbilt University this month as part of the University Seminar in Religion and Culture. Read More

Vanderbilt University's lifelong learning opportunities for older adults will expand and flourish thanks to a $100,000 grant from The Bernard Osher Foundation. Read More

School in the summer might not sound good to most kids, but what if that school is one of the nation's top universities, the classes explorations of cutting-edge science, art, law, music and more, and the students some of the brightest around? Summer school suddenly sounds a lot better. Read More

On Feb. 28, 2007, Vanderbilt University and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 386, which represents approximately 600 employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories, reached an agreement on a new three-year contract. The contract was ratified by the union membership March 2, 2007. Read More

What do you get when you put a group of creative and inspired Vanderbilt business students in with equally determined students from Vanderbilt's divinity school? How about divine inspiration on the future of business and how business can end poverty. Read More

Raising hefty sums of cash early in the 2008 presidential campaign puts candidates in the driver's seat for competing successfully in the primaries, according to Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science John Geer. Read More

Three Vanderbilt University students have been awarded 2007 Goldwater Scholarships, earning up to $7,500 a year to pursue the study of mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development rose to No. 3 in U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional schools released on Friday. Vanderbilt's schools of business, law and engineering all improved their positions. Read More

Watch video of DNA expert Sean Carroll delivering the final lecture in the 2006-2007 Chancellor's Lecture Series, "Evolutionary Developmental Biology." Read More

The Trojan War, sparked by the abduction of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is over. The Greeks, led by Odysseus, are victorious. Odysseus has not yet spent his 10 years traveling the world in the tales made famous in Homer's Odyssey. Read More

Adjunct professor of health care innovation and entrepreneurship Michael Burcham is using his expertise as a teacher and a current CEO to lead a team of fellow professors, students and volunteers for this year's Accelerator-Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute. Read More

A new Vanderbilt University study has identified a chemical signal that plays a critical role in forming the heart, which could lead to new strategies to combat congenital heart defects. Read More