Year: 2009

A documentary about the 1980s punk music scene in Los Angeles will begin the Vanderbilt University portion of the 2009-2010 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. Read More

Watch video of the Sept. 8 State of the Medical Center address. Read More

Contributors to The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" will gather on Sept. 16 for a panel discussion on the topic "Is America Postracial?" Read More

William Turner, former Obama health care advisor, Betts Chair and Professor of Education and Human Development, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, is among several Vanderbilt professors available to comment on health care reform. Read More

Katherine Carroll, an assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, will describe her experiences in Iraq during a Sept. 17 lecture in the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Read More

Tiki Barber, retired NFL Pro Bowl running back, philanthropist and NBC correspondent, will speak at Vanderbilt University's Langford Auditorium Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. Read More

Watch Dr. Billy Hudson discuss the discovery. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center led by Billy Hudson, Elliot V. Newman Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Biochemistry and Director, Vanderbilt Center for Matrix Biology, have discovered a new chemical bond in biological tissue, a fundamental discovery that helps explain evolutionary adaptation in the animal kingdom and may shed light on human disease. Read More

Watch video of Elizabeth Zechmeister, assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, speaking about terrorist warnings affecting political attitudes. Read More

Watch video of Elizabeth Zechmeister, assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, speaking about terrorist warnings affecting political attitudes. Read More

On Oct. 2, VU Gmail will become the exclusive email service for Vanderbilt University undergraduates. To claim their Gmail account prior to Oct. 2, students should visit http://its.vanderbilt.edu/gmail and follow the instructions. All remaining undergraduate mailboxes will be automatically directed to Gmail by Information Technology Services Oct. 2. Read More

Vanderbilt University's film series, International Lens, kicks off its season on Sept. 2 with Amnesty International's presentation of The Visitor, a drama that explores the implications of U.S. immigration policy. Read More

When citizens in the United States and Mexico are confronted by terrorist threats, they cope in ways that can put significant stresses on the nations' democracies, according to research by political scientists at Vanderbilt and Claremont. Read More

Vanderbilt is among a small number of schools that have set up state-of-the-art labs for political science research. The Research on Individuals, Politics and Society Lab is housed on the ground floor of Calhoun Hall. Read More

A unique collaboration between Fisk and Vanderbilt universities that is poised to become the nation's top source of Ph.D.s in physics and astronomy awarded to underrepresented minorities has received a major boost from three federal grants totaling $3.7 million. Read More

Vanderbilt University has hired Matthew Redd as its director of commencement. In this role, Redd will oversee the university's three days of events each year that culminate in Commencement exercises held the second Friday in May. Read More

The class of 2013 makes Vanderbilt home! See and hear all the excitement of Move-In and Founders Walk. (5:20) Read More

A Vanderbilt University political scientist's study of President Obama's appointments during his first six months in office finds some agencies are receiving significantly more qualified presidential appointees than others. Read More

Vanderbilt University will be viewing eco-friendly, sustainable fashions in September at a fashion show and a couture display. Read More

Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee have joined with the 10 other Southeastern Conference institutions to launch the SEC Academic Network, a Web site designed to promote academic endeavors of SEC universities in partnership with ESPN and the member universities. Read More