Communications And Marketing

Fifty years ago, two men took a bold step for themselves and for the future of Vanderbilt University Law School. Shortly after the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, and after strong encouragement from the law faculty, Vanderbilt Law School broke the color barrier and became the first privately funded law school in the South to admit African American students. Read More

More than 4 billion people around the world are considered poor, earning an average of $2 a day. A highly motivated group of Vanderbilt students want to change that statistic and is inviting fellow students to come together to share ideas. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been recognized for the eighth consecutive year as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, in a study by Solucient Institute. Read More

Patricia Pierce, who has been in a leadership role with Vanderbilt University's Opportunity Development Center almost from its inception, will retire April 30. Read More

The Vanderbilt women's basketball team, winner of the SEC Championship, joins our men's team in NCAA tournament play this weekend. We take a CloserVU of Senior Dee Davis (video). Read More

Efforts by the Vanderbilt Child and Family Policy Center and other groups to sustain community partnerships that help Tennessee teens aging out of foster care are making a dramatic difference, according to the co-chair of the Tennessee Youth Advisory Council. Read More

A distinguished German scholar who has played an important role in contemporary debates about interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies will speak at Vanderbilt University on March 27. Read More

Vanderbilt University will celebrate the establishment of the James M. Lawson Jr. Chair at Vanderbilt with a symposium on Lawson's legacy and an inaugural lecture by the first holder of the Lawson Chair. Read More

Journalist Lou Dobbs, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. will deliver public lectures at Vanderbilt University March 19-21 as part of the university's annual Impact Symposium. Read More

Women's basketball team holds NCAA Selection Show Party. Read More

Anja Becker, a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt, will deliver the Founders Day Lecture at 4 p.m. March 15 in the Bennett-Miller Room at Vanderbilt Law School. Becker's lecture is titled "As a Man Thinketh in His Heart So He Is: The Educational Values of Vanderbilt Chancellor James H. Kirkland (1893-1937) as Expressed in His Letters and Speeches." A scholar with the German Academic Exchange Service, Becker has researched the history of Vanderbilt, Kirkland and the influence of German educators on education in the South. Members of the Vanderbilt community and the public are invited to attend. Read More

Last week's 107.5 River of Hope Radiothon was the most successful radio-based fund-raiser in the history of Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. Read More

Ray Suarez, a senior correspondent for The NewsHour on PBS and author of a book about the relationship between religion and politics in America, will speak at Vanderbilt University on "The Politics of Faith in America." Read More

Qubad Talabany, son of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and representative to the United States for the Kurdistan Regional Government, will be available to answer media questions, Wednesday, March 14, at 3:15 p.m. prior to his lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

In the continuing battles between creationists and evolutionists, DNA expert Sean Carroll is strengthening the case that evolution is a natural law, as unassailable as the theory of gravity. Carroll will speak Thursday, March 29, at Ingram Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

An assistant professor of physics at Vanderbilt University has won a $45,000 research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. Read More

Vanderbilt University will award its second Nichols-Chancellor's Medal and $100,000 prize on May 10 to Muhammad Yunus, a Vanderbilt alumnus and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Read More

Infectious diseases researchers at Vanderbilt Medical Center are seeking healthy adults to help test a vaccine for malaria. Read More

Violent crime, racial oppression, ethnic tensions, mass atrocities and transitioning societies are all volatile situations that could be helped with effective conflict resolution techniques, including apology and forgiveness. But the complex emotional transition necessary for effective conflict resolution becomes even more complicated in the context of group conflicts. A conference being held at Vanderbilt Law School on March 30-31 will provide a unique opportunity to explore trends in conflict resolution. Read More

Knoxville author Julia Watts will read from her work at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, March 29, as part of Vanderbilt‘s Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers series. Read More