Year: 2010

Vanderbilt University writer-in-residence Peter Guralnick will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame during a May 5 ceremony in Memphis. Read More

Recent Vanderbilt football signee Rajaan Bennett, a leader on and off the field from McEachern High School north of Atlanta, died tragically Feb. 17. He was 18. Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 18 talk by Walter Earl Fluker, executive director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, speaking about leadership challenges. Read More

Benson Hall and the Library's Archival Storage Facility have received certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program of the U.S. Green Building Council. Read More

The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection – the force that drives evolution – is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought. Read More

Ken Feinberg, special master for executive pay for the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, will deliver the keynote speech for a daylong executive pay conference Feb. 26 at the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Watch video about new applications developed by Vanderbilt engineering students for iPhone and Android mobile devices. Read More

Finding out where to eat, what's happening and how to get around are common questions on every college campus. Now at Vanderbilt University, the answers to these questions can be quickly and easily found using new applications developed by Vanderbilt engineering students for iPhone and Android mobile devices. Read More

A memorial service for Rendigs Thomas Fels, professor of economics, emeritus, is set for 2 p.m. Feb. 26 at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Read More

A mural depicting an epic battle between junk and healthy food will transform a large wall of Rand Dining Hall at Vanderbilt University as part of a week-long mural workshop. Read More

Scientists at Vanderbilt and Yale universities have successfully transplanted most of the "nose" of the mosquito that spreads malaria into frog eggs and fruit flies and are employing these surrogates to combat the spread of the deadly and debilitating disease that afflicts 500 million people. Read More

Hundreds of Vanderbilt students will dance the night away Friday, Feb. 19, at the Student Recreation Center during the university's annual all-night Vanderbilt University Dance Marathon. Read More

New York Times best-selling author L.A. Banks will be at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 18. Banks will address the Black Student Alliance on a panel about black sexuality during the group's weekly lunchtime gathering. Read More

What's he looking at; your federal stimulus money at work; and the winner is….It's VUCast time for Feb. 12. Read More

Watch video of the Jan. 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture, given by journalist Douglas A. Blackmon. Read More

Paintings by 11 artists "exploring the use of color, the development of space" make up The Painters Eye exhibit, which opens with a reception Feb. 18 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

While most are trying to keep warm during one of the coldest winters the Southeast has seen in years, The Music Group at Vanderbilt University is gearing up for its Rites of Spring Music Festival Friday, April 23, and Saturday, April 24. This year's line up includes Drake, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Phoenix and Passion Pit. Read More

The Vanderbilt and Nashville communities are invited to the "Hope for Haiti: Holistic Perspectives on the Crisis" forum at Vanderbilt on Feb. 16 at Langford Auditorium. The 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. free event offers diverse, informed perspectives on the recent earthquake disaster in Haiti. Live video of this event will be streamed on VUCast, www.vanderbilt.edu/news. Read More

Three Vanderbilt University police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, pending the outcome of an internal investigation of how an incident at the National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternity house last weekend was handled. Read More

On a cold, rainy Saturday at the Clairmont Apartments in East Nashville, a group of Spanish-speaking children from the area gathered inside one particularly colorful and lively unit, paying close attention to their teachers, Vanderbilt undergraduates Jillian Currie and Thomas Davis. In the day's lesson, the children were learning English words and phrases related to sound and instruments. However, Currie and Davis' goals aim much higher than teaching English to these children. Read More