Year: 2008

Country music supergroup Rascal Flatts has been honored for their unflagging support of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children\'s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The multiplatinum-selling band was presented with the Humanitarian Award by the Academy of Country Music and Home Depot during Sunday Night\'s 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. Read More

Officials of Vanderbilt Athletics will conduct a press conference Tuesday, May 20, at 9 a.m. CT to detail the recently adopted Athletic Facility Project that promises to have wide-ranging benefits for Commodore student-athletes and fans. Watch a free live webcast of the press conference in Commodore Nation All Access on VUcommodores.com Read More

This op-ed by Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Sociology Beverly Moran compares and contrast Sen. Barrack Obama\'s and Sen. Hillary Clinton\'s use of old vs. new politics during the 2008 primary campaign. Read More

Mark McCaw, program administrator of Siloam Family Health Center in Nashville, is the 2008 recipient of the Executive MBA/Center for Nonprofit Management Sponsorship. The award is financed by Vanderbilt\'s Owen Graduate School of Management and the winner is chosen through a partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management. Read More

A Vanderbilt University alumna who helped redesign key alumni initiatives, including ones that reach out to current students, and a graduating senior who has served in numerous leadership roles are the newest members of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. Read More

For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can hear tapes of Robert Penn Warren's 1964 interviews with prominent Civil Rights activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and the Rev. James Lawson. The interviews were conducted for Warren's book "Who Speaks for the Negro?" and this project was made possible with the cooperative efforts of the Vanderbilt, Yale and University of Kentucky libraries. Read More

The class of 2008 celebrates as more than 3,000 undergraduates, graduate and professional students receive their degrees. Hear from students and their families as they reminisce about Vanderbilt, Commencement and the future. Read More

Listen to podcasts from the Food Security Summit, which addressed many of our region's most pressing issues -- including hunger, poverty, obesity, land use, development and the depletion of natural resources -- through their connection to food. Read More

Early in his new book Arts, Inc., Bill Ivey recounts the tale of a warehouse demolition in Camden, N.J., in the 1960s. The building was destroyed with dynamite, the resulting rubble and shattered contents bulldozed into the Delaware River. Read More

In what has become a summertime tradition in Nashville, the popular Bluebird on the Mountain concert series begins its fourth season at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. This year\'s series opens with a show featuring performances by Tony Haselden, Georgia Middleman and Billy Kirsch. The 2008 series ñ which includes six concerts ñ runs from May 17 to Oct. 11 and will showcase nearly two dozen of Nashville\'s finest singer-songwriters. Read More

An international rock star, a little rain and Chinese lions, oh my . . . check out VUCast's coverage of Senior Day. Read More

Larry R. Churchill, the Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics, discusses the reasons why Medicare is prone to crises and which reason we need to pay attention to, at the May 7 "Thinking Out of the Lunchbox." Read More

A free electronics recycling event will be held at LP Field from May 14 to May 17. A large number of items are expected to be recycled on Wednesday, May 14, providing photo and video opportunities. Items could include computer systems, monitors, printers, copiers, fax machines, TVs, cell… Read More

Accomplishments will flow naturally from the talents, training and motivation of Vanderbilt graduates, said Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Vanderbilt Commencement ceremony on Friday. Happiness is a trickier proposition, he said, and offered some guidance on how to achieve it. (Video and audio of address included). Read More

The Music City Quarter Midget Racing Association will hold a charity race on Saturday, May 31, to benefit Vanderbilt LifeFlight\'s transport program. Read More

Watch video of the May 9 main Commencement ceremony on Alumni Lawn. Read More

Graduating students will receive diplomas at Vanderbilt University\'s Commencement on Friday, May 9, starting at 9 a.m. on Alumni Lawn, near West End Avenue and 23rd Avenue North. Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos will give the Commencement address to graduates. Read More

New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early migration route followed the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago. Read More

Genetic variation in the DNA of mitochondria ñ the "power plants" of cells ñ contributes to a person's risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Vanderbilt investigators report May 7 in the journal PLoS ONE. Read More

Graduating seniors should become "the new American revolutionaries" aiming for the stars even if they find themselves sometimes lying in the gutter, said musician and social activist Bob Geldof, who gave the Senior Day address Thursday to Vanderbilt graduates. Read More