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A Vanderbilt corporate law scholar believes the President‘s social security reform plan comes at a dangerous time for low and middle-class employees. Listen to an interview with Professor of Law Margaret Blair. Read More

Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child in the 1950\'s, now spends her days speaking to the public in an attempt to educate them about autism. Read More

Nine area schools recently took place in the Dell Student Technology Leadership Competition and Showcase. The students used Vanderbilt\'s Virtual School to reach classrooms across the globe in their competition. Vanderbilt Virtual School director Jan Zanetis comments. Read More

Vanderbilt Professor of Catholic Studies Patout Burns discusses the legacy of the late Pope John Paul II and how he will be remembered in the Catholic and worldwide community. Read More

Vanderbilt Professor of Catholic Studies Patout Burns discusses the legacy of the late Pope John Paul II and how he will be remembered in the Catholic and worldwide community. Read More

Nashville attorney Walter Searcy could not walk three years ago due to paralysis caused by a tumor on his spinal cord. Now, thanks to rehabilation treatment provided by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Walter is closer than ever to being able to walk again on his own. Read More

Vanderbilt Professor of History Michael Bess believes that significant advancements will soon be made in the fields of robots and genetic engineering. Professor Bess recently received a grant for work on his new book- Artificial Persons: Shifting boundaries of the Human in the Age of Robots and Clones. Read More

A Vanderbilt anthropologist flew around the world with the Discovery Channel as part of her role in the new series Mummy Autopsy. Listen to an interview with Tiffiny Tung. Read More

Ladies and gentlemen, dear graduates and families and friends: Happy Friday the 13th! How are you supposed to wish someone "happy Friday the 13th"? "Happy discord and confusion and chaos"? "Here‘s to being a little off-kilter, all day"? But, indeed, what an auspicious occasion for holding a ceremony of passage! What a way to train ourselves to look for the current of humor in every situation, no matter how star-crossed or unbelievable it might seem. What a way for us to train ourselves to work with the world as it happens to be. What a way for us to train ourselves to use that slight imbalance, that asymmetry, that cock-eyed quality, to create something new. Read More

Andrew Erdmann, a former adviser to the Bush administration on Iran and Iraq who was also part of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, will speak at Vanderbilt on April 4. Read More

For refugees and many natives, the Americas represent a land of opportunity where dreams can come true. Read More

Listen to an interview with Robert Barsky. Read More

A new study showing similar levels of agreement among white and black college athletes that racial and ethnic discrimination is no longer a problem bucks more than 70 years of social science trends relating to racial perceptions of discrimination. Read More