Communications And Marketing

Two Vanderbilt University political scientists will mark federal Constitution Day with a discussion about how the role of the American president has changed since the beginning of the United States. Read More

Four people intimately involved in the historic trial of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will talk about their experiences at Vanderbilt Law School on Sept. 29 at 3:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Vanderbilt University Learning Sciences Institute researchers Stephen N. Elliott, Peter A. Beddow and Ryan J. Kettler have developed a decision-making instrument called the Test Accessibility and Modification Inventory (TAMI) to address the issue of accessibility for students with special needs. Read More

James J. Yee, Army captain and former chaplain at the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was falsely accused of espionage and arrested and imprisoned for nearly three months before charges were dropped, will bring his story to Vanderbilt Monday, Sept. 22. Read More

Curious about the impact the digital revolution is having on the battlefield? Maybe you would like to meet Betty, the computer character that middle school students are asked to teach about various science subjects, a process that teaches them how to learn? Or perhaps you would be interested in discovering how the latest software can improve the way that hospitals manage infectious diseases? Read More

Latin American author and journalist Alma Guillermoprieto will address "How to Be a Mexican" in a Sept. 23 lecture sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American Studies. Read More

E. Ann Kaplan, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies and director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, will present a lecture on Monday, Sept. 15, at 4:10 p.m. in the auditorium of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt University expert available to talk about images of women in media Read More

"The president-as-superhero myth promised all the democracy with none of the work," writes Dana Nelson in her new book, Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People. Read More

The man credited with making ‘Must See TV' one of the most popular and recognizable promotional themes in television history is coming to the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Three of Nashville's most respected songwriters will appear onstage at Dyer Observatory in the fifth concert of the 2008 Bluebird on the Mountain series. Read More

Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, spoke about "The State of the Humanities" at Vanderbilt University, on Friday, Sept. 5. Read More

Learn secrets of the Saddam Hussein trial and see how more than a thousand students made Vandy history. Read More

Learn secrets of the Saddam Hussein trial and see how more than a thousand students made Vandy history. Read More

Vanderbilt law professor Mike Newton played a pivotal role in the creation of the Iraqi Special Tribunal that tried Saddam Hussein. In a new book titled “Enemy of the State,” Newton and his co-author Michael Scharf give a historic recounting of the Saddam trial with a behind-the-scenes look inside the drama and tragedy surrounding it. Read More

Watch video of the Sept. 3 Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box with Associate Professor of Philosophy Jeffrey Tlumak. Read More

Scientists have detected previously unnoticed chemical signals that individual cells in the immune system use to communicate with each other over short distances. Read More

Vanderbilt University placed No. 42 on an academic ranking of the top 500 world universities by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which compiles one of the leading international indexes of major universities. Read More

Alex Espinoza, whose first novel was described as an interesting mix of whimsy and uneasiness by the Los Angeles Times, will perform a reading at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The mixed-media Mexican folk art exhibit Retablos: Miracles on the Border will be on display at Vanderbilt's Sarratt Art Gallery Sept. 4-30, with an opening reception and lecture by Latin American anthropologist Jorge Durand on Sept. 11. Read More