Year: 2009

Concerned with the dramatic decline in the traditional media's coverage of newsworthy scientific and academic activities, Vanderbilt has joined with 34 other top research universities to create Futurity.org, an online news channel designed to showcase the achievements of their scientists and engineers, medical researchers and scholars. Read More

Watch video of a Sept. 21 panel discussion on issues of identity and diversity through the lens of late pop star Michael Jackson's life and career. Read More

This year's Health Care Business Alliance, titled "Leading Change: the Future of Health Care," will be held at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel on Friday, Oct. 2. Read More

Vanderbilt University is helping keep safe the thousands of people who live, work, learn or receive health care on the campus by being the first and only university in Tennessee to become certified as "StormReady" by the National Weather Service. Read More

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which debuts Oct. 2 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University, is a chilling dark comedy of new love and old hatreds. Read More

The impact of recognition and rewards on student attendance and performance in afterschool programs is the aim of a new study being launched by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University and uBoost, a company that manages student reward programs. Read More

A VUMC researcher and his medical doctor wife have developed a program providing rural high school students paid jobs in a major university science lab. The federal stimulus funds have produced remarkable results for some Arkansas teens. Barb Cramer has the story. Read More

Ricardo Lagos, a former Chilean president whose administration achieved strong economic growth while adopting democratic and social reforms, will address current issues facing Latin America during an Oct. 1 lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Terrorism at the ballot box, breakthrough Alzheimer's research at the Med Center & Commodore goes old school. (5:40) Read More

Questions about the notion of civility have been a hot topic given the recent outbursts of rapper Kanye West, tennis player Serena Williams and Congressman Joe Wilson. On Thursday, Sept. 24, Vanderbilt University will explore the topic further with the lecture "Civility in Decline? The View from the American College Campus." Read More

Civil rights movement leader the Rev. James Lawson will highlight the fall 2009 semester programming of Vanderbilt Divinity School when he delivers the annual Cole Lectures Oct. 15-16. Read More

Vanderbilt University's class of 2013 ranks as the school's most academically prepared and most diverse class in school history, with the most competitive selection process. More than 19,353 students applied, up from 16,944 last year. Of the 1,599 students enrolled in the class, 86 percent came from the top 10 percent of their graduating class. A total of 167 were valedictorians or salutatorians, 187 National Merit Scholars and 12 National Achievement Scholars. Read More

Academically talented 7th through 10th graders will have a chance to expand their horizons, intellectually and socially, in an overnight Vanderbilt program this fall specifically designed for gifted students. Applications are currently being accepted for the program, Weekend Academy at Vanderbilt University or WAVU, which will take place Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 10-11. Read More

Questions of identity surrounded Michael Jackson in life and death. A Sept. 21 panel discussion at Vanderbilt University will focus on larger issues of identity and diversity through the lens of the late pop star's life and career. Read More

[Media Note: Vanderbilt has a 24/7 video and audio studio with a dedicated fiber optic line and a radio ISDN line. Use of the TV studio with Vanderbilt experts is free, except for reserving fiber time. High-resolution photos are available by request.] Read More

Vanderbilt University political scientist Bruce Oppenheimer will discuss the continued expansion of presidential power and its impact on Congress during the school's annual Constitution Day program on Sept. 23. Read More

Neal Tate, a professor and chair of Vanderbilt University's Department of Political Science who provided strong leadership during a successful rebuilding of the department, died on Sept. 13, 2009. Tate, 65, had been recovering from major surgery. Read More

Dhavan V. Shah, an expert on the social psychology of media influence on political judgment, will examine the impact of new media in his presentation "Network Nation: How Campaign Ads and the Internet Shape Participation" on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 4:10 p.m. at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The novel H1N1 flu virus is a presence on the Vanderbilt campus, as it is on many U.S. university campuses, but it appears to be no more serious than the regular seasonal flu, Vanderbilt's chief student health official says. Read More

Go inside the Vanderbilt H1N1 vaccine trials and learn how to protect yourself. Contact: Emily Pearce emily.pearce@vanderbilt.edu Amy Wolf amy.wolf@vanderbilt.edu (615) 322-2706 Vanderbilt’s video production unit won five regional Emmy awards in 2007 and two in 2008 in advanced media for videos produced for VUCast,… Read More