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Dr. Richard A. Meserve, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, gave the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture at Vanderbilt March 13 on the "nuclear renaissance in the U.S." . Read More

The use of brain scans to detect Alzheimer\'s disease was the topic of a lecture by Dr. John Csernansky, director of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Washington University, St. Louis, at Vanderbilt University March 9. The lecture was part of the Brainstorm 2006 lecture and event series. Read More

The use of brain scans to detect Alzheimer's disease was the topic of a lecture by Dr. John Csernansky, director of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Washington University, St. Louis, at Vanderbilt University March 9. The lecture was part of the Brainstorm 2006 lecture and event series. Read More

Vivien Green Fryd, a Vanderbilt professor of art history who is conducting a seminar in conjunction with Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman\'s Multimedia Project of Discovery, lectured on the work of these two acclaimed artists who are Vanderbilt\'s first Chancellor\'s Artists-in-Residence. The lecture took place March 2 at Sarratt Cinema. Read More

"Science Education in the 21st Century" was the topic of discussion between Virginia Shepherd, Vanderbilt professor of pathology and medicine, and approximately 300 members of the Nashville community at the Nashville Public Library March 1. The lecture was part of the popular "Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box" lecture series co-hosted by the library and Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt legal, First Amendment and religious experts discussed the issues surrounding the recent global uproar over the publication of satirical cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad during a forum sponsored by the Vanderbilt Interfaith Council Feb. 20. Read More

Vanderbilt legal, First Amendment and religious experts discussed the issues surrounding the recent global uproar over the publication of satirical cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad during a forum sponsored by the Vanderbilt Interfaith Council Feb. 20. Read More

Marc Galanther, author of Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture, discussed his research into the increase and changing tone of jokes about attorneys throughout history, and what these jokes say about our culture, in a lecture Feb. 21 at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Guest speaker Rick Chappell shatters some common misperceptions about gravity in space and shares his personal experiences from his training days as a back-up payload specialist for the NASA space shuttle. Dr. Chappell is a research professor of physics at Vanderbilt University and is also director of the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

Four Vanderbilt professors discussed their new research in black Atlantic history in an event sponsored by the Department of History Feb. 14 as part of Black History Month. Read More

With final exams over until the spring, Vanderbilt University students will pull an all-nighter of a different sort on Friday, Feb. 17, when they hit the dance floor from 7 p.m. until 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18. Read More

The erosion of the legal recognition of torture as something that is forbidden in the United States and the implications for our broader legal system and society of that erosion were the subject of a lecture by Jeremy J. Waldorn, University Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia University at Vanderbilt University Law School Feb. 3. Read More

The erosion of the legal recognition of torture as something that is forbidden in the United States and the implications for our broader legal system and society of that erosion were the subject of a lecture by Jeremy J. Waldorn, University Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia University at Vanderbilt University Law School Feb. 3. Read More

"Dying old as a social problem" was the subject of a lunchtime discussion with Vanderbilt philosophers John Lachs and David Wood and 300 members of the Nashville community Feb. 1 at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

"Dying old as a social problem" was the subject of a lunchtime discussion with Vanderbilt philosophers John Lachs and David Wood and 300 members of the Nashville community Feb. 1 at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

Craig E. Colten, the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University and a leading expert on the geographical and social/racial issues that complicate the recovery of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina, shared his unique perspective on the aftermath of the tragedy during a lecture at Vanderbilt Law School Jan. 26. Read More

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Thomas Cruse discussed future directions for Air Force science and technology in a lecture at Stevenson Center Jan. 20. Cruse is the chief technologist for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Read More

Stefanie Lindquist, associate professor of political science and law, spoke Jan. 23 on how recent and Supreme Court changes may affect legal access to abortion in the United States. She made the argument that Roe v. Wade may have impeded and continues to impede progress toward reproductive freedom for women rather than advanced it. Read More

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More than four decades after a national furor over the expulsion of James Lawson from Vanderbilt University, he will return as a Distinguished University Professor for the 2006-07 academic year. Read More