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Vanderbilt, welcome to the big time. Mackenzi Adams came off the bench and threw for 153 yards and two touchdowns, and No. 19 Vanderbilt beat 13th-ranked Auburn 14-13 Saturday night to improve to 5-0 for the first time since 1943. The Commodores also improved to 3-0… Read More

Listen to a podcast from Constitution Day. Read More

Political scholars, journalists and pundits will offer their informed perspective on where the 2008 presidential election is headed during an Oct. 7 forum for students that is sponsored by Vanderbilt University and the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt. Read More

John McCain Needs Game-Changer: Campaign and polling expert John Geer says Barack Obama should strive to look presidential and avoid major mistakes in the remaining two presidential debates, while John McCain needs a game-changing event to shake up the race. However, with economic troubles looming, that could be difficult for the GOP nominee. (Vanderbilt has a campus broadcast facility with a dedicated fiber optic line for live TV interviews and a radio ISDN line) For a full list of election experts and news coverage, visit ElectionVU 2008. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a number of events leading up to and on the day of the Oct. 7 presidential debate in Nashville. Read More

Watch VUCast Extra and learn more about Vanderbilt's new Expanded Aid program. Read More

Watch VUCast Extra and learn more about Vanderbilt\'s new Expanded Aid program. Read More

An exhibit of video art curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and another of photographic imagery by artist Blue Mitchell will open Oct. 15 at the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Peter Applebome, writer and editor at the New York Times, will present a lecture on Monday, Oct. 13, at 4:10 p.m. in Room 126 of Wilson at Vanderbilt University. Read More

To bring this historic election straight into classrooms, the Vanderbilt Virtual School has created an interactive videoconferencing program that gives 5th through 12th grade teachers a curriculum and a slate of expert instructors, including CNN commentator Lou Dobbs, to share with their students. Read More

Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person. Read More

Watch video of Craig H. Kennedy, PhD, BCBA and chair of the Special Education Department; Professor, Special Education and Pediatrics Director at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Behavior Analysis Clinic Peabody College speaking Oct. 2. Read More

Watch video of Craig H. Kennedy, PhD, BCBA and chair of the Special Education Department; Professor, Special Education and Pediatrics Director at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Behavior Analysis Clinic Peabody College speaking Oct. 2. Read More

Watch video of New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield and Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler discussing "Race, Religion and Politics: Evangelicals, Conservatives and Liberals Look for Common Ground" at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Watch video of New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield and Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler discussing "Race, Religion and Politics: Evangelicals, Conservatives and Liberals Look for Common Ground" at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Watch video of the Oct. 1 Thinking Out of the Lunchbox talk by Jay Clayton. Read More

Watch video of the Oct. 1 Thinking Out of the Lunchbox talk by Jay Clayton. Read More

Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and one of the country's leading scholars of religion, will speak at Vanderbilt University, on Thursday, Oct. 16, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. Her lecture is titled "Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Di Vinci: What We Know … and How We Know It." Read More

A message from David Williams, vice chancellor for university affairs and athletics to the Vanderbilt community about the big Oct. 4 game with Auburn and ESPN\'s presence on campus that day. Read More

Watch video of the Oct. 1 Grand Rounds, "Response to Intervention and Learning Disabilities." Read More