Communications And Marketing

Amelia Winger-Bearskin, an Austin, Texas-based artist who creates performance art and digital video, will speak about her recent work at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The U.S. Senate early this morning confirmed the nomination of Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt professor of political science and law, to the National Council on the Humanities. The appointment is for a six-year term. Read More

Vanderbilt University has released a version of its homepage specially designed for the iPhone. Visitors can view the site by going to www.vanderbilt.edu on an iPhone or to www.vanderbilt.edu/iphone on a traditional Web browser. Read More

Camilla P. Benbow, vice chair of President Bush\'s National Mathematics Advisory Panel, is available to discuss the panel\'s final report, which was presented to the president and U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings March 13. Read More

The enduring memory problems that people with schizophrenia experience may be related to differences in how their brains process information, new research has found. Read More

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has been selected as a Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare CancersSM by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, in collaboration with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Read More

She arrived near death. She left with a 'happier heart'. Meet an Iraqi child whose journey for life led her to Vanderbilt and ended by touching all she left behind. Watch that story in our latest VUCast for the week of March 16. Read More

Nobel laureate George F. Smoot from the University of California, Berkeley will give a free public lecture about what the latest studies of the variations in fossil radiation called the cosmic background radiation (CBR) are revealing about the nature of the embryonic universe shortly after its origin in the Big Bang. Read More

Cancer patients from the Southeastern United States who are treated with the drug cetuximab, known commercially as Erbitux, are far more likely to suffer severe allergic reactions than patients in other regions of the country. Read More

Musician and social activist Bob Geldof will receive Vanderbilt University\'s third Nichols-Chancellor\'s Medal and the cash prize of more than $100,000 on May 8, when he will address graduating seniors and their families. Read More

Prominent Muslim scholar Amina Wadud will lecture at Vanderbilt University on "Islam, Gender and Change" for the annual Antoinette Brown Lecture. Read More

Vanderbilt\'s Dyer Observatory is open to the public at least once a month starting in March for either a free Open House Telescope Night or an Exploration Night. Reservations are required for Exploration Nights and there is a $5/person, $10/family fee. Read More

Creative approaches to preaching and worship in African American Christianity will be detailed in classes led by two Vanderbilt Divinity School professors as part of Vanderbilt\'s Relevant Religion Series. Read More

The annual John William Byrn Lecture presents Marcus Rediker, professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. Read More

The annual John William Byrn Lecture presents Marcus Rediker, professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. Read More

Watch video of "Las Maras: Street Gangs and Security in Central America and the United States." Read More

Vanderbilt faculty, staff, alumni and students welcomed Nicholas S. Zeppos as its eighth chancellor at a celebration at the Student Life Center March 10. Join our VUCast crew for a front row seat at the festivities. Read More

Vanderbilt\'s eighth chancellor promised "my hardest work" and reflected about the journey of his family from Greece to America as he addressed the entire Vanderbilt community for the first time as chancellor, instead of interim chancellor. Read More

Affordable housing - in Nashville and across the nation - is the topic of a daylong conference Thursday, March 13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College Wyatt Center. Read More

Vanderbilt education researcher Christopher Loss has won the American Education Research Association, Division J (Post-Secondary Education) Dissertation of the Year Award. Read More