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The Vanderbilt News Service recently announced several changes to its leadership team. Melanie Moran has been named associate director with responsibility for the office's operation in the absence of Director and Assistant Vice Chancellor for News and Communications Elizabeth P. Latt. Read More

"Global Warming – What do we know and what we should do?" is the title of a free public lecture that will be given Thursday afternoon, Sept. 4, on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

The undergraduate experience at Vanderbilt University is undergoing its most significant transformation with its new campus within a campus for first-year students, The Commons, opening Saturday, Aug. 16. Read More

First-year students will move in to The Commons, Vanderbilt University's new living-learning community on Saturday, Aug. 16, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Read More

Students play all types of games -- from Texas Holdem poker to Monopoly -- in The Mathematics of Games, a first-year writing seminar offered this fall in the College of Arts and Science. Senior Lecturer Lori Rafter will also teach the course in spring 2009 to adults enrolled in Vanderbilt's Master of Liberal Arts and Science Program. Read More

A 35 mm print of Peter Jackson's cult classic Heavenly Creatures will kick off the International Lens film series in Sarratt Cinema at Vanderbilt University on Sept. 3. The series, which is free and open to the public, will screen 27 films from 21 nations from September through December. Each film screening will include an introduction by a Vanderbilt faculty member or program director, who will also lead a post-screening discussion. Most films will be shown in 35 mm prints. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College Dean Camilla Benbow will speak at the National Science and Technology Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., on Aug. 19. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development faculty members Karen Harris and Steve Graham have been selected as co-editors of the first edition of the American Psychological Association's Educational Psychology Handbook. Read More

Beginning Aug. 15, Vanderbilt University will extend its Free Ride program to graduate and professional school students, allowing them to commute to and from campus for free. Read More

Larry Cordle, Carl Jackson and Jerry Salley will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, as part of the 2008 Bluebird on the Mountain series at Dyer Observatory. Read More

David E. Lewis, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, has been awarded the Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award for The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance. Read More

The undergraduate experience at Vanderbilt University is undergoing its most significant transformation with its new campus within a campus for first-year students, The Commons, opening Saturday, Aug. 16. Read More

Vanderbilt University will promote Commodore spirit by encouraging all Vanderbilt fans to wear black and gold on College Colors Day, Friday, Aug. 29. Read More

Artists John Brown and Michael Krueger, who use junk mail and old high school notebooks in their work, respectively, will share an exhibition at Vanderbilt University from Aug. 27 to Oct. 3. Read More

Is the presidency good for our country? And, it's countdown to The Commons experience for first-year students. That's in our 'summer is over' VUCast for the week of Aug. 10. Read More

When young people are released from juvenile detention, jail or prison, one of the biggest concerns for society is how to prevent that offender from repeating those bad actions. A new study led by Mark Cohen, an economist and professor at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, found that the re-entry program for youth offenders called YouthBuild reduced criminal activity, raised graduation rates and created a substantial cost-benefit for taxpayers. Read More

Vanderbilt's emergency physicians are urging the public to take precautions in the extreme heat. Corey Slovis, M.D., chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and medical director for Metro-Nashville Fire Department EMS and Nashville International Airport, said prolonged heat day after day can lead to dehydration. "Having several days of high temperatures can lead to dehydration," Slovis said. Read More

Cheap electricity and gasoline fueled Tennessee's prosperity over the last several decades. But Tennessee now ranks first in the nation in per-person residential electricity consumption, much of which is generated from coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, and Tennessee drivers rank among the highest in the number of vehicle miles traveled per person. Read More

Vanderbilt University experts are available to comment on the issues and policies addressed by the reauthorized Higher Education Act, expected to be finalized by Congress in the next several days. Read More

Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak about "The State of the Humanities" at Vanderbilt University, on Friday, Sept. 5, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. Read More