Year: 2008

The Chancellor speaks out, a look at the not so 'common' admitted class and Hollywood comes a calling? It's VUCast time for the week of April 20th. Read More

Vanderbilt University is partnering with Google to offer its undergraduate students Gmail, Google\'s e-mail offering. The service will be launched in early summer. Read More

Gifted education expert Joyce VanTassel-Baska will deliver a free public lecture, "Do Gifted Children Need Gifted Education?" Thursday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m. at the downtown Nashville Public Library. The library is located at 615 Church St. Read More

Watch video of the Spring Faculty Assembly, with remarks by Chancellor Nick Zeppos; Claire Smrekar, associate professor of public policy and education; Bruce Barry, chair of the Faculty Senate and professor of management and sociology; and the presentation of five teaching awards. Audio-only podcast also available. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of three clinical sites testing new products to replace burned skin as part of a massive federal grant program announced Thursday. The collaborative effort is expected to boost treatment options for soldiers injured in war zones. Read More

On the first day of what would have been her senior year at Vanderbilt, Mary Cady Ford had a baby. Ford\'s Chi Omega sorority sisters crowded into her hospital room, shrieked with delight and brought an avalanche of cute Baby Gap outfits. Baby Caroline\'s godfather, a fellow student, came by with a copy of the student newspaper. Then everyone went back to class and Ford was left to face a new reality: She was a new mother just one year shy of graduation. Read More

Vanderbilt University senior engineering students are challenged to solve real-world design issues for corporate sponsors during a two-semester design course. Students will share results with their clients and the Vanderbilt community at Senior Design Day, April 22, from 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering grad Brad Jaeger will be behind the wheel of Doran Racing\'s Kodak Ford Doran/Dallara at this weekend\'s Mexico City 250, part of the Rolex Sports Car Series season. Jaeger is co-driver with Memo Gidley, who won this race in 2005. Read More

An op-ed by Vanderbilt legal scholar Brian Fitzpatrick on the appellate judge selection process in Tennessee. Read More

There will be some drama going on April 22 at Vanderbilt University as the second annual Vanderbilt Student Film Festival ñ "Vandy Gets Reel" ñ showcases films by Vanderbilt students and faculty and features Oscar-nominated filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert. Read More

A new study examining the connection between corporate lobbying at the federal level and financial performance finds that lobbying pays off. Read More

A new method that uses nanotechnology to rapidly measure minute amounts of insulin is a major step toward developing the ability to assess the health of the body\'s insulin-producing cells in real time. Read More

An op-ed by Vanderbilt legal scholar and sociologist Beverly Moran arguing that the American tax system contains racial biases. Read More

Disparities continue to exist in the U.S. tax system that unfairly benefits whites over blacks, according to Beverly Moran, professor of law and professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. Read More

How much will people, communities and cities have to change to help save the planet? Will policymakers have to push people, for the first time, to limit what and how much they consume? These are some of the big issues leading experts in environmental law, the humanities and natural, social and behavioral sciences will discuss at the Climate Change and Consumption Conference being held at Vanderbilt University Law School April 18-19. Read More

This op-ed by Vanderbilt University legal scholar Nita Farahany explores the real-world advent of "pre-crime" as explored in the film "Minority Report." Read More

A Vanderbilt University political scientist says the largely white, affluent suburbs around Philadelphia could boost Barack Obama\'s chances of a surprise win in the April 22 Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Read More

Michelle V. Buchanan, associate laboratory director for physical sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, spoke at the Hall Engineering Lecture Series. Read More

Michelle V. Buchanan, associate laboratory director for physical sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, spoke at the Hall Engineering Lecture Series. Read More

The American Nuclear Society (ANS) has student sections on many campuses. But Vanderbilt is the first university where a student section has been authorized that does not grant a degree in nuclear engineering. Read More