Communications And Marketing

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

Vanderbilt University Libraries are remembering one of America's most beloved writers with the exhibit "Mark Twain: An American Original," now on display in Special Collections. Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 3 talk by Dr. Shari Barkin. Read More

NOTE: Due to blizzard conditions in the D.C. area, Al-Suwaij is unable to travel to Nashville. The event has been canceled. Read More

Protest art in many mediums including painting, drawing, electronic and installations will be displayed at Vanderbilt Divinity School Feb. 23 to March 26 in the Art Room on the ground floor of Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

The 50th anniversary of the Nashville sit-ins, which were an early civil rights movement success and a critical time in the life of Vanderbilt University, will be observed with a symposium featuring some of its participants. Read More

Those wishing to teach in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools will have the opportunity to earn a Vanderbilt University master's degree designed expressly for them beginning this summer, Vanderbilt and MNPS announced today. Read More

Richard A. "Pete" Peterson, one of the first professors to research country music from a sociological perspective, died Feb. 4. He was 77. Peterson, a professor of sociology, emeritus, at Vanderbilt University, was founding chairman of the American Sociological Association's culture section. Read More

Understanding Haiti; calling all snow; and it's Iron Chef Vandy style. You don't want to miss this jam-packed VUCast for Feb. 5. (9:10) Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 4 talk by William Ginn, chief conservation officer for The Nature Conservancy. Read More

Camilla Benbow, dean of the Vanderbilt University Peabody College of education and human development, and Jesse Register, director of Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, will announce a new partnership and master's program to recruit, train and retain the nation's most promising teachers to teach in MNPS schools on Monday, Feb. 8. Read More

Watch video of a talk by Michael Kimmel, a leading researcher and writer on men and masculinity in the world today. Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 3 talk by Vesna Pavlovic, assistant professor of art, part of the Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series. Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 3 talk by Vesna Pavlovic, assistant professor of art, part of the Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series. Read More

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the Department of Biological Sciences and the Law School at Vanderbilt University are jointly sponsoring a panel discussion about the famous naturalist's life and research. Read More

Musician and recent Reebok Human Rights recipient Anderson Sa, who has used music to help lead Brazilian youth away from drug cartels, will spend a week at Vanderbilt University beginning Feb. 22 in a joint effort by Great Performances at Vanderbilt and the Center for Latin American Studies. Read More

Beth Bachmann of Vanderbilt University is the 2010 winner of The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, given to honor a poet‘s first book. Bachmann‘s Temper, published last year by the University of Pittsburgh Press, was called "an unforgettable first book" by poet Lynn Emanuel. Read More