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Dutch athletes visit campus to learn from baseball team

Members of the Dutch National Baseball Team visited with Commodore coaches and players. Pictured (l-r): Netherlands coach Steve Janssen, Floris Timmer, Vanderbilt Associate Head… Read More

One of two Romney approaches offers his best chance: Vanderbilt analysis

Mitt Romney can still win the presidential election if he can convince Americans he has the best plan to reinvigorate the economy, according to analysis by Vanderbilt professor John Geer of two new ads released by Romney’s campaign. Read More

Get discounts on Predators tickets

Members of the Vanderbilt community can receive discounted tickets to upcoming Nashville Predators home games, including: Oct. 13 vs. St. Louis Blues Oct. 16… Read More

VU study shows no gender gap in sports concussions

A new study conducted to review symptoms and neurocognitive findings in male and female high school soccer players revealed no gender-related differences. Read More

LifeFlight rolls out mobile emergency command center

by Jerry Jones Middle Tennessee emergency crews have a new tool available for them to help manage large scale events and… Read More

Daphne Koller: “The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone”

Watch video of Daphne Koller, professor of computer science at Stanford and co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera, delivering the School of Engineering’s annual John… Read More

Auto experts recognize cars like most people recognize faces

The most detailed brain mapping study to date has found that the area of the brain that recognizes faces is also used to identify objects of expertise. Read More

‘Obesity: Did Our Numbers Really Go Down?’ lecture Oct. 5

The Community Research Partners Meeting, “Obesity Through the Lens of Public Health: Did Our Numbers Really Go Down?” will take place Friday, Oct. Read More

Flulapalooza returns Oct. 17-18

“Flulapalooza 2″ will be TWO days offering DOUBLE the options, with the same, super-fast setup as last year. Oct. 17, 2012, 6 a.m–1… Read More

DigitalVU month kicks off Oct. 9

The fourth annual DigitalVU month kicks off Oct. 9. The month of workshops, open houses, lectures, discussions and more is designed to share information… Read More

(Lunch) Box talk: Lessons learned from Occupy Wall Street

“Occupy Wall Street, Democratic Process and Lessons for November” will be the focus of the Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box: Conversations with a Philosophical Flavor with David Wood event on Oct. 5. Read More

Library staff create scary creature for Cheekwood’s Fall Fest

Pictured (l-r): Nancy Dwyer, Lara Beth Lehman, Carlin Sappenfield, the scarecrow, Carla Beals and Greg Collins. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Dwyer) If you visit… Read More

Our favorite Tweets of the week, Sept. 22-28

We love hearing from our fans, friends and followers, and we have some very vocal ones on Twitter. Below are just a few of our… Read More

‘Post’ reporter to speak on energy and environmental policy

“Energy and Environmental Policy at a Crossroads: The 2012 Election,” a talk by Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin, will take place Oct. 8… Read More

Commodore Award winners named

Commodore Award winners Rebecca Pride (left) and Tonya Mills (right) where honored by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) The annual Commodore… Read More

ISIS software project receives $17.2M contract from DARPA

The Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems has been awarded a $17.2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accelerate the Android Mobile Middleware Objects (AMMO2) project. The contract was announced Sept. 19. Read More