Communications And Marketing

The Chef James Bistro, a 2,000-square-foot student dining facility located within Rand Hall at Vanderbilt University, has received certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Commercial Interiors (CI) program of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Read More

While longer-term options are being developed, individual households can reduce overall carbon emissions by implementing a series of small changes, such as lowering the temperature on water heaters and regularly performing maintenance on cars and air-conditioners, according to an article published today. Read More

Four years after its creation and only a year and a half after granting degrees to its first class, the MFA Creative Writing program at Vanderbilt University was named a Top 20 program in the country by Poets & Writers magazine. Read More

Boo! Searching out one of Vandy's “deepest” secrets, and why some movie stunts are insultingly stupid. (7:21) Read More

Boo! Searching out one of Vandy's "deepest" secrets, and why some movie stunts are insultingly stupid. (7:21) Read More

Five alumni who have distinguished themselves through a variety of careers and have made significant contributions as staff members of the university's student media were inducted into the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame on Oct. 16, 2009. The event was held in conjunction with Homecoming/Reunion Weekend. Read More

The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which debuts Nov. 6 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University, explores the destructive relationship between a cantankerous, domineering mother and her lonely, troubled daughter as they endlessly repeat a bitter daily battle of wits and wills. When a local bachelor offers the daughter a chance for romantic happiness, a series of shocking and irrevocable events ensues. Read More

Watch video of David Charles Mills speaking about his book Unholy: The Slaves Bible. Read More

Watch video of an Oct. 21 talk by Dr. Rhea Seddon, Former NASA Astronaut and Tennessee's First Lady of Space, part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. Read More

Watch video of an Oct. 7 talk by Dr. Joey Barnett, professor of pharmacology, medicine, and microbiology and immunology, and director of graduate studies in pharmacology. Part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt University announced Oct. 21 that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Wright and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Rick Haselton, titled "Coffee Ring Stain Diagnostics for Malaria." Read More

Figuring out how biological clocks evolved and extracting clues to environmental factors that cause cancer from electronic medical records: These are the goals of two projects that have been funded by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program. Read More

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, long known for its "hands-off" regulatory policy, appears to be changing course toward greater intervention in markets. New research by professors at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management finds that when it comes to index investors, more intervention is a mistake. Read More

Watch video of an Oct. 18 talk by photographers Norman Gershman and Stuart Huck, part of the 2009 Holocaust Lecture Series. Read More

Watch video of an Oct. 16 presentation on developing applications for Google Android and iPhone. Read More

Rosanna Warren, a renowned poet and critic and daughter of writers Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, will visit Vanderbilt University this month as the guest of the Warren Center, named for her father. Read More

Kim McMillan, former majority leader in the Tennessee House of Representatives, is the second in a series of Tennessee gubernatorial candidates to address students in Vanderbilt University's "Introduction to American Government and Politics" class. Read More

Listen to an Oct. 15 talk by John Seigenthaler, sponsored by The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership at Vanderbilt. Read More

VUCast: Tour the new Fine Arts Gallery and why are these people juggling? (4:20) Read More

How do you know what is normal gifted behavior versus a clinical syndrome? Psychologists, counselors, social workers, educators, administrators and parents are invited to register for a one-day workshop Friday, Oct. 30, at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College to get answers to this difficult question. Read More