Year: 2010

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

What are these people doing in Admissions, and what does a New York museum have to do with that baseball glove chair? It’s VUCast time for April 12. Read More

While students through the years have sought out libraries as places for quiet learning, an increasing number of today’s young people use libraries for collaborative study sessions and instruction classes. Read More

There are two major schools of thought when it comes to educating children and youth with severe learning needs and both are off target, researchers from Vanderbilt and Clemson universities report. The researchers argue a return to the original principles of special education that is informed by modern data and techniques is needed to reform both general and special education. Read More

Watch video of the 2010 Spring Faculty Assembly. Read More

Watch video of Ananya Jahanara Kabir, University of Leeds, speaking on history, art, film and modernity in post-colonial South Asia. Read More