Cole Lecture Part 1: Race, Religion and the American Project
Watch video of Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Graduate Chair of Religion, University of Pennsylvania, for the second Cole Lecture when… Read More
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Cole Lecture Part 2: The Religious Right and the Quest to Reframe American History
Watch video of Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Graduate Chair of Religion, University of Pennsylvania, as she discusses the implications of… Read More
Six named to Vanderbilt Law School Board of Advisors
Vanderbilt Law School has welcomed six new members to its Board of Advisors. The Board of Advisors plays a crucial role in carrying out the law school’s mission of providing an unparalleled legal education to its students and an intellectually vibrant community in which faculty can pursue teaching and scholarly excellence. Read More
Vanderbilt plays role in contests to build Marine combat vehicle
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently launched FANG Challenges, a set of three next-generation military vehicle design competitions with up to $4 million in prizes to build a new amphibious combat vehicle specifically for the Marine Corps. Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) is playing a significant role in the contests. Read More
Vanderbilt law professor to work on restatement of U.S. foreign relations law
Vanderbilt University law professor Ingrid Wuerth will contribute her expertise on immunities to an influential guide to foreign relations law. Read More
Celebrate International Education Week Nov. 5-14
(iStockphoto) International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to celebrate… Read More
Take a campus walk with senior leaders Nov. 6
(Vanderbilt University) Join Vanderbilt senior leaders for walks starting at five campus locations and ending at Health Plus atop Kensington… Read More
The Tennessean: Hobbyist puts concerts in homes
If measured by Malcolm Gladwell’s rule of a 10,000-hour prerequisite, Peabody graduate student Larry Kloess has surpassed expert status into the territory of sheer fanaticism — but in the best way possible, by Music City standards. He has cultivated a passion for exposing Nashville to undiscovered talent through his blog and house concert series, Cause A Scene Music. Read More
Depiction of pregnancy in film topic of lecture
Kelly Oliver, the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, will discuss her book Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood… Read More
Green tea found to reduce rate of some GI cancers
Green tea may lower risk of some digestive cancers. Read More
Protein’s length, flexibility key to infection
The structural architecture of the reovirus attachment protein is required for efficient reovirus infection of host cells. Read More
VUCast: Wearable Robot
This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast: Amazing Vanderbilt research you have to see to believe! How this “wearable robot” helps paraplegics walk!… Read More
Free community event to discuss memory loss in older adults
If you’re 60 or older and have noticed a significant change in your memory—or if this describes a loved one—please join us for this informative… Read More
Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability update Nov. 6
Jim Shulman, executive director of the Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability, will present “State of Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability Update” from noon to… Read More
Build an iPhone app, design a Rube Goldberg contraption on Engineering Day Nov. 8
VandyMobile, a student-led apps team, will help students take a napkin-sketch idea to the Apple App Store–or somewhere in between–during Engineering Day Nov. 8. The… Read More
Focus on the future topic of post-election (Lunch) Box talk
Michael Bess and Mike Vandenbergh, two Vanderbilt University professors, and Samar Ali, a Vanderbilt alumna who works in the Haslam administration, will address “Visions of the Future” Nov. 7 at the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church St. Read More
Writer David Maraniss to teach at Vanderbilt during spring 2013 semester
Famed writer David Maraniss will co-teach a course, Presidential Biographies, next semester, and also a Commons seminar for first-year students, Reading and Writing about Sports and American Life. Read More
Advanced exoskeleton promises more independence for people with paraplegia
A team of Vanderbilt engineers has developed a powered exoskeleton that enables people with severe spinal cord injuries to stand, walk, sit and climb stairs. Its light weight, compact size and modular design promise to provide users with an unprecedented degree of independence. Read More
Vanderbilt burn doctors treat more patients during cold-weather months, urge caution with home heating
iStock With temperatures falling into the 30s this week, people across the… Read More
Dorothy E. Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race
Watch video of Dorothy E. Roberts – recently named Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania – presenting “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” based on her… Read More
