Year: 2010

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt offers spring classes for the community beginning March 15. The non-credit classes are geared toward older adults who want lectures and discussions in a relaxed and informal environment. Read More

Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, two of the nation's most experienced political reporters, will engage in an evening of political discussion April 1 at the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University. The 5:30 p.m. event will be followed by a reception and book-signing. Read More

When cells move about in the body, they follow a complex pattern similar to that which amoebae and bacteria use when searching for food, a team of Vanderbilt researchers have found. Read More

Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your attention would be involuntarily snatched away from the story to the blaring sound. New research from Vanderbilt University reveals for the first time how our brains coordinate these two types of attention and why we may be temporarily blinded by surprises. Read More

A German Jewish heroine of the French resistance to the Nazis will be honored with a cabaret-style performance at Vanderbilt University on March 19. The presentation, The Red Scarf and the Black Briefcase, is based on a poem by Vanderbilt poet Rick Hilles. Read More

A Vanderbilt Divinity School professor will present his viewpoint on Rastafarian theology and reggae music March 16 during an event sponsored by the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at the divinity school. Read More

Futurity.org, an online university news channel targeted to members of the public interested in basic research, has expanded beyond its North American base to include science news from leading British universities. Read More

Dorothy Legros, a senior in the College of Arts and Science, died during Spring Break after visiting her sister near Atlanta. Read More

Vanderbilt University has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. Read More

Wyatt Smith, graduating senior, Ingram Scholar and president of Vanderbilt Student Government, has been named this year's recipient of Vanderbilt University's Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship. Read More

President Obama is now debating whether to have the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, prosecuted in a military tribunal, despite Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to try Mohammed in civilian court. Read More

The current financial crisis hitting the United States has made the idea of legalizing and taxing marijuana much more attractive for debt-ridden states. California proponents claim they could generate more than a billion dollars by legalizing and taxing marijuana distribution and save millions more by reducing law enforcement costs on prohibition enforcement. But Vanderbilt University Law School professor Robert Mikos explains in a new paper why the seemingly clear way to make money by legalizing and taxing marijuana distribution has too many legal hurdles to actually work. Read More

Tom Reynolds suggests a reframing of what we consider "normal"and outlines how that reframing might alter how we think about the act of inclusion. Read More

Watch the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre and Vanderbilt Orchestra production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Read More

Tennis provides many life lessons that senior Jeff Berry hopes the at-risk kids coming through the Mentor TennisSee program he established while a student at Vanderbilt will carry with them for years to come. Read More

Charles K. Megibben, who played a major role in developing the mathematics department of Vanderbilt University into a major research center, has died. He was 73. Read More

VUCast Extra: One of our most powerful military leaders talks about Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More

Five artists who believe that God has inspired them to build structures are featured in the film God's Architects, to be screened at Vanderbilt University as part of the International Lens Film series. Read More

Watch video of a March 3 talk by Assistant Professor of Sociology Laura Carpenter, part of the Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series. Read More

David Jewitt, professor, astronomer and comet expert will give a free, public talk at Vanderbilt University about “Primordial Ice Reservoirs of the Solar System” and how much we know, and don't know, about them. Read More