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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

The Vanderbilt University podcast feed has changed. If you subscribed to Vanderbilt podcasts prior to Jan. 20, you will need to update our feed in your podcast client. The new feed is: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/podcast_feed/rss. Please delete our old feed from your podcast clinet and add the new one. Read More

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

The metals found in stars are the same metals found in your jewelry, a city skyscraper and the core of Earth. This program discusses how these metals formed and their state inside stars. Guest speaker is Dr. Arnold Heiser, professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University, whose research is in variable stars. Read More

The question "Can our best values betray us?" framed a discussion with Vanderbilt philosopher Charles Scott and 300 members of the Nashville community Dec. 7 at the Nashville Public Library. The discussion was part of the Thinking Out of the Lunch Box series, co-sponsored by the library and Vanderbilt University. Read More

Professor of History Thomas Schwartz will advise the U.S. State Department about important documents from the Johnson, Nixon, Ford and and Carter presidencies through his work on a prestigious advisory committee. Listen to an interview with Schwartz. Read More

A standing-room only crowd of over 700 heard from top federal officials and national academic leaders in mental health and human development about topics such as the history of mental retardation research and treatment, the social nature of autism, the interplay between nature and nurture and the new "Decade of Discovery" in mental health research at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's 40th Anniversary Symposium Nov. 30. Read More

Vanderbilt's Susan Gray School will hold its Holidays Around the World Celebration Saturday, Dec. 3, from 5 to 9 p.m. in the Commodore Ballroom of the Student Life Center on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More