Communications And Marketing

What would it take to change the lives of poor children – not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? Answering that question led Geoffrey Canada to create the Harlem Children‘s Zone, a 97-block laboratory where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. It is based on his belief that if you really want to change the lives of inner-city kids, you have to change everything all at once – their schools, families and neighborhoods. Read More

In the middle of the Vanderbilt University campus are the Mayfield Lodges. Unlike traditional residence halls, Mayfields are a series of lodges that include 10 single bedrooms, a common area, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a full-sized refrigerator. However, Mayfields are not only special in their design, but also in their purpose; the Mayfield lodges serve as "living and learning lodges" and the residents at each lodge participate in a service learning project. Read More

The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office and Vanderbilt Athletics have teamed up to launch a recycling program for all the remaining Vanderbilt men's and women's basketball games for the 2010 season. Read More

Vanderbilt University continues its Saturday University series this spring, with five lectures by faculty focusing on works of art in the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Collection. Read More

Two Vanderbilt professors have issued the fourth edition of their iconic textbook, Advanced Accounting (John Wiley and Sons). The authors, Debra Jeter and Paul Chaney, say each new edition adapts to changes in accounting standards and laws. Read More

Derek John Waller, a retired Vanderbilt University political scientist who taught and wrote extensively about the politics of Communist China, died on Dec. 31, 2009. The Sewanee, Tenn., resident, who was 72, had suffered from pancreatic cancer. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Douglas A. Blackmon will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture on Jan. 19 at the Vanderbilt Law School. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 3:30 pm in Flynn Auditorium. Read More

Vanderbilt Centennial Professor of Philosophy John Lachs has proposed that legislators be tested on their specific knowledge of bills under consideration in Congress. Lachs is dismayed that several national lawmakers have admitted recently to not reading the material on which they are voting. Read More

An article by Vanderbilt's Robert Whaley explaining the Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index was among the leading global financial articles of 2009 in Institutional Investor Journals. Read More

Americans value preventing deaths from terrorist attacks almost twice as much as they value preventing deaths from natural disasters, according to a study by Vanderbilt economist W. Kip Viscusi. Read More

Bill Ivey, director of The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, will speak about leadership Jan. 28 at a breakfast. Read More

Watch a life-changing journey, food that fills the soul and a holiday party that keeps on giving. Happy New Year …it's "feel good" VUCast time. (11:43) Read More

Three years ago, when the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to dwarf planet status, the unpopular decision was based on personal opinions and professional politics, not on rigorous scientific criteria that can clearly differentiate planets from lesser bodies, points out Vanderbilt astronomer David Weintraub. In the next decade, however, the amount of knowledge that we have about Pluto and another dwarf planet, Ceres, will change dramatically and this new information may affect our views of these objects and their status in the solar system as asteroids, dwarf planets or planets. Read More

One of the best things the world can do to promote peace and stability in the coming century is to expand commercial nuclear power based on the extraction of uranium from the ocean. That is the proposition which Frank Parker, an internationally recognized expert in remediation of radioactively contaminated soil and water and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, advanced at an exclusive meeting held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican last month. Read More

Professor of Special Education Carolyn Hughes has won a $30,000 grant from the Organization for Autism Research to fund a pilot project that will help high school students with autism become more included and involved in their schools and with their peers. Read More

The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) along with Vanderbilt Athletics will offer recycling at all Vanderbilt men's and women's home basketball games, beginning Saturday, Jan. 2, with the game against Southern Mississippi. Read More

Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been awarded the National Science Foundation's largest ever Faculty Early Career Development grant in the field of astronomy. She will use the prestigious award to continue her studies of black holes while supporting the university's innovative program designed to make the university the top producer of underrepresented minorities with Ph.D.s in physics and astronomy. Read More

A workshop on transformational leadership will be held Jan. 16 at Vanderbilt University. The public is invited to the 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. event in the reading room of Vanderbilt Divinity School, 411 21st Ave. S. Read More

They’re on the frontline of the workday world – filling our coffee cups, trimming our hair, holding Sunday open houses – but workers in some service jobs in Tennessee are at a higher risk of not having access to health care coverage through their employers, according to a study conducted… Read More

Watch video of a Dec. 9 talk by Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo, associate professor of English. Read More