Year: 2008

An exhibit of video art curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and another of photographic imagery by artist Blue Mitchell will open Oct. 15 at the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Peter Applebome, writer and editor at the New York Times, will present a lecture on Monday, Oct. 13, at 4:10 p.m. in Room 126 of Wilson at Vanderbilt University. Read More

To bring this historic election straight into classrooms, the Vanderbilt Virtual School has created an interactive videoconferencing program that gives 5th through 12th grade teachers a curriculum and a slate of expert instructors, including CNN commentator Lou Dobbs, to share with their students. Read More

Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person. Read More

Watch video of Craig H. Kennedy, PhD, BCBA and chair of the Special Education Department; Professor, Special Education and Pediatrics Director at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Behavior Analysis Clinic Peabody College speaking Oct. 2. Read More

Watch video of Craig H. Kennedy, PhD, BCBA and chair of the Special Education Department; Professor, Special Education and Pediatrics Director at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Behavior Analysis Clinic Peabody College speaking Oct. 2. Read More

Watch video of New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield and Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler discussing "Race, Religion and Politics: Evangelicals, Conservatives and Liberals Look for Common Ground" at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Watch video of New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield and Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler discussing "Race, Religion and Politics: Evangelicals, Conservatives and Liberals Look for Common Ground" at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Watch video of the Oct. 1 Thinking Out of the Lunchbox talk by Jay Clayton. Read More

Watch video of the Oct. 1 Thinking Out of the Lunchbox talk by Jay Clayton. Read More

Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and one of the country's leading scholars of religion, will speak at Vanderbilt University, on Thursday, Oct. 16, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. Her lecture is titled "Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Di Vinci: What We Know … and How We Know It." Read More

A message from David Williams, vice chancellor for university affairs and athletics to the Vanderbilt community about the big Oct. 4 game with Auburn and ESPN\'s presence on campus that day. Read More

Watch video of the Oct. 1 Grand Rounds, "Response to Intervention and Learning Disabilities." Read More

Watch video of the Oct. 1 Grand Rounds, "Response to Intervention and Learning Disabilities." Read More

Watch video of a Sept. 30 talk by Shane Claiborne, the author of "The Irresistible Revolution and Jesus for President." Read More

Watch video of a Sept. 30 talk by Shane Claiborne, the author of "The Irresistible Revolution and Jesus for President." Read More

The youth vote will play an important role in this year's presidential election and Vanderbilt University students will be tuning in to Thursday's vice presidential debate at a group viewing on campus. Read More

Vanderbilt University's seven-year initiative to reduce students' education-related debt will take a bold step forward in fall 2009 when the university replaces all need-based student loans with Vanderbilt grant and scholarship assistance while continuing to fully meet the demonstrated need of its undergraduates. Read More

Listen to Andrea George discussing "Sustainability at Vanderbilt: What You Can Do" to find out how you can "green" the many choices you make each day. Read More

An interdisciplinary group of scientists has obtained the first detailed information about the structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses. Read More