Year: 2008

Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Read More

Vanderbilt\'s Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Read More

Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Read More

Vanderbilt\'s Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Read More

Civil rights leaders and activists Angela Davis and the Rev. James Lawson will speak on April 4, the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and a special panel including Houston Baker, Richard King, Bob Moses and Ruth Turner Perot will examine Robert Penn Warren\'s 1965 book Who Speaks for the Negro? Read More

Vanderbilt Law Professor Carol Swain has been invited to a U.S. Civil Rights Commission briefing Friday, April 4, to discuss the impact of illegal immigration on wages of low-income black workers. Read More

Fans of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder\'s Little House on the Prairie books as well as Americana music lovers can enjoy a rare, special concert this month. Read More

Professor of Management and Sociology Bruce Barry discusses the limits of free speech in a society where people live out much of their lives under the control of large private institutions not bound by the Bill of Rights. Read More

Professor of Management and Sociology Bruce Barry discusses the limits of free speech in a society where people live out much of their lives under the control of large private institutions not bound by the Bill of Rights. Read More

Vanderbilt University is one of 15 universities selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to participate in a unique program to support undergraduate research. Read More

The Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) is hosting an open house today at 5 p.m. for its new state-of-the-art patient care and research facility. Read More

For many athletes, their repaired ACL knee tears are causing new problems in the prime of their life, including debilitating arthritis and poor outcome when they re-tearing the knee ligament. Now in groundbreaking research, in the largest orthopaedics study ever, doctors are looking for the best way to fix re-torn… Read More

Data can help school administrators boost student achievement, support teacher performance and improve parent-school relations, according to a new book by Vanderbilt University education faculty. Read More

A variety of Vanderbilt University experts are available for interviews on autism. The United Nations designated April 2 World Autism Day in November 2007. Read More

A semester-long study of how religion, music and the academy interact in Music City culminates April 17 with a daylong conference. Read More

"Judicial Reputation: A Conference on Neglected Justices"opens at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at the Vanderbilt Law School with a keynote address by G. Edward White, the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Read More

An op-ed by Vanderbilt University legal and political scholar Carol Swain arguing that the fight between Sen. Barrack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination and its focus on race and gender is harming the party. Read More

An event bringing together an Irish rocker/social activist, R & B band from the seventies and eighties . . . and Nick Zeppos? Check out this week's VUCast. Read More

Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College of education and human development is the second-ranked education school in the nation, according to the latest rankings of graduate and professional schools by U.S. News & World Report. Read More

Student concert committee Nashville in Our Living Room hosted its first concert March 26 in the atrium, affectionately known on campus as "the living room," in the university's new Commons Center. The event featured Nashville-based singer/songwriters Sara Beck and Audrey Spillman. Read More