Month: March 2008

Although she\'s just 15, Katlyn Vacanti-Mitchell has already battled leukemia and started her own foundation to help families with sick children at Monroe Carell Jr. Children\'s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Randall W. Smith, a Vanderbilt graduate and major fundraiser for the school\'s Shape the Future comprehensive fundraising campaign, has been named an executive associate vice chancellor for Development and Alumni Relations. Read More

What are the most important issues facing Africa today? What are the historical and current causes? Join Kanayo Odoe, native-born African from Nigeria, as he discusses the relationship between scarcity, inequality, and conflict in Africa today. Read More

What are the most important issues facing Africa today? What are the historical and current causes? Join Kanayo Odoe, native-born African from Nigeria, as he discusses the relationship between scarcity, inequality, and conflict in Africa today. Read More

Students go global with good works, it's not too late to catch the flu bug and a Commodore who's at the top of his game, check out this week's VUCast. Read More

A Cinemax documentary on assisted living centers will be screened at Vanderbilt University. The event is free and the public is invited. Read More

Watch video Vanderbilt graduate Elyn Saks speaking at the Chancellor\'s Lecture Series. Read More

Watch video Vanderbilt graduate Elyn Saks speaking at the Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

An op-ed by Vanderbilt law and political science scholar Carol Swan critiquing a recent op-ed criticizing a local immigration raid. Read More

K-12 experts from Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College of education and human development will present their latest research March 24-28 in New York City at the American Educational Research Association\'s annual conference. Read More

Higher education experts from Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College of education and human development will be presenting their latest research March 24-28 in New York City at the American Educational Research Association\'s annual conference. Read More

Many people believe in God even though that belief is unverifiable by the methods used to test scientific ideas or concepts. Why? Read More

A distinguished group of scholars, journalists and activists will grapple with some of the thorniest issues of immigration during a symposium organized by Carol Swain, a Vanderbilt University professor of political science and law. Read More

Angela Davis, the Rev. James Lawson, Houston Baker, Richard King, Bob Moses and Ruth Turner Perot are among the scholars and civil rights activists participating in Vanderbilt University\'s "We Speak for Ourselves: A Poet, a Prophet and Voices for the 21st Century" conference on April 4, presented by Vanderbilt\'s Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. Read More

Buddhist scholar David Loy discussed how the Buddhist religious tradition offers a fresh spiritual perspective on consumerism and ecology during a lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Buddhist scholar David Loy discussed how the Buddhist religious tradition offers a fresh spiritual perspective on consumerism and ecology during a lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Responsibility and Global Justice class presents David Reidy, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, speaking on "Human Rights: Agendas and Institutions." Read More

The Responsibility and Global Justice class presents David Reidy, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, speaking on "Human Rights: Agendas and Institutions." Read More

Vanderbilt Heart Lebanon will host an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, March 26, at 4 p.m. The clinic, which opened in February, is located at 1420 W. Baddour Pkwy., across the street from University Medical Center. Read More

In a lecture that will kick off a conference on Religion and Genomics at Vanderbilt University, a leading historian of genetics will explain how faith-based communities have come to terms, ethically, with genetic screening - even when the screening is mandated and even when the communities are opposed to abortion. Read More