Month: April 2010

Spreading the Vanderbilt spirit through good deeds; suspected terrorists and military commissions; and, oh my, that really had to hurt. It’s VUCast time for April 23. Read More

Efforts by Nashville’s civil rights activists were key to the historic national struggle for civil rights. On Friday, April 30, members of Nashville’s movement will gather at Vanderbilt University to discuss their experiences. Read More

Vanderbilt students were given a hands-on crash course in filmmaking under the tutelage of Chilean author/filmmaker Alberto Fuguet during his month-long visit to campus. Fuguet was invited to participate in The Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Resource Professor program, in which notable Latin American scholars and writers spend an intensive month interacting with Vanderbilt’s undergraduates and graduate students. Read More

Vanderbilt is celebrating Earth Day on Thursday, April 22, on Rand Terrace from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Read More

The annual Blair Appalachian Celebration, directed by Matt Combs, performing in Ingram Hall on April 10, 2010. The concert featured the newly formed Matt Combs quartet, the Blair Second Stringers student fiddle group, and guest artist master fiddler James Bryan. Media Contact: Cindy Steine cindy.steine@vanderbilt.edu… Read More

Education policy in Brazil and the United States will be the topic of an all-day event at Vanderbilt University April 26 that will kick off a new collaboration between Vanderbilt and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Read More

Homeowners in community land trusts across the nation continue to have substantially lower delinquency and foreclosure rates than owners of market-rate homes, according to survey results released this month by Vanderbilt University researcher Emily Thaden in partnership with the National Community Land Trust Network. Read More

Angela Hsiau-mei Lin, a Vanderbilt German professor and musician, has died after a long illness. She was 40. Read More

Three members of the Vanderbilt University Police Department have been disciplined as a result of their actions after responding to a disturbance call Feb. 7 at the National Pan-Hellenic Council house. Read More

Watch video of Ira Berlin, an American historian and author of The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations, speaking at Vanderbilt April 16. Read More

An April 20 reading at Vanderbilt University by poet Ciaran Carson has been canceled because of travel difficulties. Carson was unable to travel to Nashville because of flight cancelations caused by volcanic ash from an eruption in Iceland. Read More

The "real world" for medical students; a presidential appointment; discovering a new element; and they juggled what? It’s VUCast time for April 16. Read More

Learn how Shakespeare’s fanciful comedy comes to life onstage in the form of dance by Nashville Ballet, part of the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series. Read More

A majority of Hondurans opposed the ouster and exile of President Manuel Zelaya last summer, even though they strongly objected to his attempt to change the nation’s constitution, a recent comprehensive survey of the nation’s population found. Read More

Poet Ciaran Carson will read from his work at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The global financial system and the world economy are now recovering from a credit crisis which began in the spring of 2007 and continues to this day. The sources of the crisis are many. Now governments are debating how to change the financial system to prevent this from happening again. Read More

Mayor Karl Dean and businessman Cal Turner Jr. will speak at a May 6 breakfast to introduce an online directory of classes and services for the city’s growing foreign-born population. Read More

Although reading and writing have become essential skills for almost every job, the majority of students do not read or write well enough to meet grade-level demands. A new report co-authored by Vanderbilt researchers Steve Graham and Michael Hebert finds that while the two skills are closely connected, writing is an often-overlooked tool for improving reading skills and content learning. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development was ranked as the best graduate school of education in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the second consecutive year. Read More

Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development, testified before Congress April 15 on the role that schools of education, like Peabody, play in ensuring that all students have great teachers and great school leaders. Read More