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Wyatt Smith, graduating senior, Ingram Scholar and president of Vanderbilt Student Government, has been named this year's recipient of Vanderbilt University's Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship. Read More

President Obama is now debating whether to have the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, prosecuted in a military tribunal, despite Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to try Mohammed in civilian court. Read More

The current financial crisis hitting the United States has made the idea of legalizing and taxing marijuana much more attractive for debt-ridden states. California proponents claim they could generate more than a billion dollars by legalizing and taxing marijuana distribution and save millions more by reducing law enforcement costs on prohibition enforcement. But Vanderbilt University Law School professor Robert Mikos explains in a new paper why the seemingly clear way to make money by legalizing and taxing marijuana distribution has too many legal hurdles to actually work. Read More

Tennis provides many life lessons that senior Jeff Berry hopes the at-risk kids coming through the Mentor TennisSee program he established while a student at Vanderbilt will carry with them for years to come. Read More

Charles K. Megibben, who played a major role in developing the mathematics department of Vanderbilt University into a major research center, has died. He was 73. Read More

Five artists who believe that God has inspired them to build structures are featured in the film God's Architects, to be screened at Vanderbilt University as part of the International Lens Film series. Read More

David Jewitt, professor, astronomer and comet expert will give a free, public talk at Vanderbilt University about “Primordial Ice Reservoirs of the Solar System” and how much we know, and don't know, about them. Read More

Problems of extreme poverty – from affordable housing to health care delivery to nutrition – will be the focus of efforts by a large number of students traveling this spring to Guatemala, where Vanderbilt already leads numerous sustained studies and initiatives. Read More

The current chief of the United States Central Command and the former top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus, will speak about his actions as commander of the surge in Iraq, the role of U.S. forces overseas and the latest developments in the surge. The event will be held Monday, March 1, at 5 p.m. at the Student Life Center. Read More

Physicist Andreas Berlind and human geneticist Marylyn Ritchie at Vanderbilt University have each won two-year, $50,000 research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. Read More

A visit to Vanderbilt University by Anderson Sa and Grupo Cultural AfroReggae has been canceled, including a Feb. 25 concert that is part of Vanderbilt ‘s Great Performances series. Great Performances series subscribers may call (615) 343-2160 for refunds, exchanges and other ticket options. Single ticket holders may visit… Read More

A short story collection by a Vanderbilt University professor described as "an amazingly original Flannery O'Connor/Loretta Lynn collision" is one of five nominees for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Read More

The Vanderbilt Political Review, a non-partisan political journal run entirely by Vanderbilt undergraduate students, will host the first Nashville Intercollegiate Activism Conference on Feb. 27. The one-day conference will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Nashville civil rights sit-ins and will examine how students were able to defeat segregation as well as how students can be involved in social change today. Read More

Several hundred of the nation's top college debate teams from dozens of universities will fill Vanderbilt University campus March 6-8 to determine the winner of the American Debate Association (ADA) 2010 National Championship Debate Tournament. Read More

The current chief of the United States Central Command and the former top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus, will speak about his actions as commander of the surge in Iraq, the role of U.S. forces overseas and the latest developments in the surge. The event will be held Monday, March 1, at 5 p.m. at the Student Life Center. Read More

The student-run Vanderbilt Initiative for Vegetarian Awareness will join several other student organizations to host a screening of the documentary Food Inc. Saturday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m. at Vanderbilt's Sarratt Cinema, located at 2301 Vanderbilt Place. Read More

Six incoming first-year students have been chosen as the newest members of the Ingram Scholarship program. The six are among 575 high school seniors who applied for the prestigious program. Read More

Amy-Jill Levine, a leading Biblical scholar from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, will address "Jesus, Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations" at Vanderbilt on Thursday, March 18, at Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

Three Vanderbilt physicists are members of the scientific team that have reported creating an exotic state of matter with a temperature of four trillion degrees Celsius. It's the hottest temperature ever achieved in a laboratory and 250,000 times hotter than the heart of the sun. Read More

Vanderbilt University writer-in-residence Peter Guralnick will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame during a May 5 ceremony in Memphis. Read More