Year: 2009

An article by Vanderbilt's Robert Whaley explaining the Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index was among the leading global financial articles of 2009 in Institutional Investor Journals. Read More

Americans value preventing deaths from terrorist attacks almost twice as much as they value preventing deaths from natural disasters, according to a study by Vanderbilt economist W. Kip Viscusi. Read More

Bill Ivey, director of The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, will speak about leadership Jan. 28 at a breakfast. Read More

Watch a life-changing journey, food that fills the soul and a holiday party that keeps on giving. Happy New Year …it's "feel good" VUCast time. (11:43) Read More

Three years ago, when the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to dwarf planet status, the unpopular decision was based on personal opinions and professional politics, not on rigorous scientific criteria that can clearly differentiate planets from lesser bodies, points out Vanderbilt astronomer David Weintraub. In the next decade, however, the amount of knowledge that we have about Pluto and another dwarf planet, Ceres, will change dramatically and this new information may affect our views of these objects and their status in the solar system as asteroids, dwarf planets or planets. Read More

One of the best things the world can do to promote peace and stability in the coming century is to expand commercial nuclear power based on the extraction of uranium from the ocean. That is the proposition which Frank Parker, an internationally recognized expert in remediation of radioactively contaminated soil and water and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, advanced at an exclusive meeting held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican last month. Read More

Professor of Special Education Carolyn Hughes has won a $30,000 grant from the Organization for Autism Research to fund a pilot project that will help high school students with autism become more included and involved in their schools and with their peers. Read More

The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) along with Vanderbilt Athletics will offer recycling at all Vanderbilt men's and women's home basketball games, beginning Saturday, Jan. 2, with the game against Southern Mississippi. Read More

Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been awarded the National Science Foundation's largest ever Faculty Early Career Development grant in the field of astronomy. She will use the prestigious award to continue her studies of black holes while supporting the university's innovative program designed to make the university the top producer of underrepresented minorities with Ph.D.s in physics and astronomy. Read More

A workshop on transformational leadership will be held Jan. 16 at Vanderbilt University. The public is invited to the 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. event in the reading room of Vanderbilt Divinity School, 411 21st Ave. S. Read More

They’re on the frontline of the workday world – filling our coffee cups, trimming our hair, holding Sunday open houses – but workers in some service jobs in Tennessee are at a higher risk of not having access to health care coverage through their employers, according to a study conducted… Read More

Watch video of a Dec. 9 talk by Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo, associate professor of English. Read More

Christina West, director of federal relations for Vanderbilt University, has been named assistant vice chancellor for federal relations. West will continue to run the university's Washington office and will direct all federal government relations activities for Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt and Peabody faculty are available to offer perspective on education issues and other current topics for the year 2010. Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty are available to offer perspective on business issues and other current topics for the year 2010. Read More

As you consider year-in-review stories and look ahead to the trends of 2010, Vanderbilt University faculty are available to offer perspective on these and other topics. mailto:bruce.barry@vanderbilt.edu Read More

Video: Rock Band competition sponsored by the Curb Center. Read More

Vanderbilt University has named Michael Brown associate director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Life. Read More

Vanderbilt University is already gearing up for spring with the launch of its new Web site on all things Commencement at www.vanderbilt.edu/commencement. Read More

Randall Kenan, an acclaimed author of novels, short stories, memoir and commentary, will read from his work at Vanderbilt University on Jan. 28. Read More