Year: 2008

A multi-disciplinary panel will take up the controversial topic of state-required vaccinations for sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Tennessee\'s first-ever Food Security Summit will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Feb. 16, at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville. Mayor Karl Dean will address the expected crowd of over 250 farmers, chefs, retailers, health and service providers, gardeners and interested citizens at 10 a.m. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $4.5 million grant from Seaside Therapeutics to find potential treatments for fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of mental retardation and the most common genetic cause of autism. Read More

Want to know why we love football? And, meet a student who can't forget the faces of AIDS. Watch our latest VUCast, for the week of Feb. 3. Read More

A new device, using advanced electrode technology, gives paralyzed patients a helping hand. Read More

The Last Five Years is the compelling story of Jamie, a nice Jewish boy, and Kathleen, a good Irish Catholic girl, who fall in love, get married and fall apart over the course of five years. It debuts Feb. 15 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. Read More

To mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by the United States, Vanderbilt University is offering a film series examining the war. The entire series is free and open to the public. Read More

Watch streaming video of a panel discussion with the judges who presided over the Anfal genocide proceedings, including including the president of the Iraqi High Tribunal and the presiding judge of Trial Chamber II. Among those convicted in the case was the infamous 'Chemical Ali.' The discussion took place Jan. 31, 2007, at the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Motivating and challenging gifted students in the classroom will be the focus of a free public lecture Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the downtown Nashville Public Library, located at 615 Church St. Free parking is available at the library. Read More

Vanderbilt\'s park-like setting that garnered it the designation of a national arboretum also means a lot of trees: more than 7,500. And all those trees produce a massive amount of leaves that, until recently, were just stockpiled at Natchez Triangle. Read More

Virtual worlds and social networking sites are becoming increasingly more enticing to people who are all too willing to abandon their privacy for escape into alternate worlds on the Internet. Read More

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has expanded and extended its support for the Vanderbilt University-based Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) with additional funding of up to $9 million. Read More

Vanderbilt University engineering students will be putting their imaginations to work in some fun and surprising ways as they compete in a series of challenges celebrating National Engineers Week (E-Week) February 18-23. Read More

Vanderbilt University students will hold a presidential caucus Friday, Feb. 1, in advance of what has been dubbed "Super Duper Tuesday." Read More

When a person suffers a heart attack, every minute counts. The longer the wait before receiving treatment, the more heart muscle is lost, and the greater the chance of permanent damage or death. Read More

All theology - like all politics - is local. In that spirit, Vanderbilt Divinity School is planning new emphasis on engaging the creative community in its home city of Nashville. Financed by a $340,000 five-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the divinity school will soon ring with music and be the site of film screenings. Read More

According to the organization Human Rights Watch, as many as 300,000 children under age 18 serve in government forces or armed rebel groups. Some are as young as 8 years old. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. Read More

Listen to podcasts from a Jan. 24 panel discussion on "Greening Vanderbilt: Find Out What Vanderbilt Is Doing." Read More

President Bush\'s final State of the Union address is likely to be more bipartisan in tone than his previous speeches before Congress, says Vanderbilt University political rhetoric expert Vanessa Beasley. Read More

The visit to Vanderbilt this week by the Iraqi judges who presided over the Anfal genocide proceedings is of particular interest to the Kurdish community here. Many survivors of Anfal live in the Nashville area. Read More