Communications And Marketing

A select group of Vanderbilt University students, faculty and staff will experience firsthand a pivotal part of the 2008 presidential campaign when they participate in a rolling seminar to the Iowa caucuses. Read More

A drug discovery team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center led by Jeffrey Conn., Ph.D., has been awarded a $4.4 million "LEAPS" grant by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to jump-start development of a new class of Parkinson's disease drugs. Read More

A drug discovery team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center led by Jeffrey Conn has been awarded a $4.4 million "LEAPS" grant by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to jump-start development of a new class of Parkinson's diseasedrugs. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt researchers has demonstrated for the first time that a new type of gene therapy, called RNA interference, can heal a genetic disorder in a live animal. Read More

Vanderbilt University's plan to improve the quality of education it offers is a bold initiative that may affect the way other colleges and universities do business, said reviewers from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools who have granted Vanderbilt reaccreditation. Read More

U.S. Courts have decreed that the federal government must come up with a system for managing nuclear wastes that will ensure the safety of the public and environment for one million years, a period that is 200 times the length of recorded history. Read More

Vanderbilt Medical Group Westhaven is pleased to announce the opening of a new Primary Care Practice. The new practice, opening Jan. 2, 2008, is located off Highway 96, at1025 Westhaven Blvd, Franklin, Tenn., in the Westhaven Community. Read More

One of the most successful recording industry executives on Music Row will join the faculty of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management this spring. Tim DuBois, former senior partner at Universal South and president of Arista Records/Nashville, will teach in the MBA program. Read More

Experts from Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College of education and human development are available to discuss 2007‘s top education stories and what to expect in 2008. Read More

Vanderbilt Football Head Coach Bobby Johnson has withdrawn his name from consideration for the head coaching vacancy at Duke, Vanderbilt officials announced today. Read More

From its birth in the late 1800‘s, to closing down during World War II when many students enlisted in the military, to being the first private law school in the South to admit African American students, to its rise as one of the top law schools in the nation, Vanderbilt Law School tells a unique and powerful story. Read More

Programs promoting home ownership, business development and bilingual skills within the Middle Tennessee Hispanic community will be recognized Dec. 10 during Conexion Americas‘ "Celebration of Achievements" at Vanderbilt University. The Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt will sponsor and host the event. Read More

Read this op-ed by Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Political Science Carol Swain on the complexities involved in the case of a teacher being jailed in the Sudan because the name her students chose for a teddy bear offended many Sudanese Muslims. Read More

Rick Chappell, director of Dyer Observatory, talks with Bill Sheehan on the anniversary of what would have been E.E. Barnard‘s 150th birthday. Dr. Sheehan is the author of "The Immortal Fire Within," the definitive biography on Barnard who is one of the world‘s most famous astronomers. Dr. Sheehan examines Barnard‘s life--his humble beginnings, his historic discoveries, his time at Vanderbilt and his famous photographs of the Milky Way. Read More

Watch video of the Dec. 5 Thinking Out of the Lunch Box lecture with Assistant Professor of Astronomy Keivan Stassun at the downtown Nashville Public Library. Read More

Devoting American dollars to democracy building in foreign countries continues to bring measurable increases in democratic governance around the globe, according to a study by Vanderbilt University and University of Pittsburgh professors. Read More

Judge Zuhair Al-Maliki, an Iraqi jurist who served as a judge with the Iraqi Criminal Court, will speak at noon Friday, Dec. 7, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

A professor from Vanderbilt‘s Blair School of Music was nominated for a Grammy on Thursday. Greg Barz, associate professor of ethnomusicology at Blair, is nominated in the Best Traditional World Music Album category for his album Singing for Life: Songs of Hope, Healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Read More

It‘s a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it. Read More

"A university that is aloof from its campus and the community cannot thrive and survive," Interim Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos said about the importance of "town-gown" relationships and the work of the university‘s new Center for Nashville Studies. While Zeppos talked about future Vanderbilt efforts that will impact Nashville on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at The Commons, the evening‘s other speaker - the Rev. James Lawson, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt - reflected on his past as a civil rights leader and the role and responsibility universities have had and must continue to have in creating positive change in their local communities and beyond. Read More