Releases

Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranked Vanderbilt University 17th on its list of 100 best values in private institutions, which ranked private liberal arts colleges and universities that combine outstanding economic value with exceptional education. Read More

Journalist and author T.R. Reid, who has become known for his in-depth look at health care systems around the world, brings his knowledge to Vanderbilt University for an 11 a.m. free public lecture on Friday, Nov. 13. Read More

A team of students from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management came in first place at the 2009 National MBA Human Capital Case Competition. The third annual competition, hosted by Vanderbilt Oct. 16-17, included teams from 10 of the top graduate schools nationwide. Read More

A death penalty debate between two leading scholars on capital punishment is set for noon Nov. 9 in Vanderbilt Law School's Flynn Auditorium. The debate takes place the day before the scheduled Nov. 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington D.C. that left 10 dead. Read More

The Fine Arts Gallery at Vanderbilt University has relocated to a new building on the east portion of campus, a move designed to lead to more interaction with the Vanderbilt and Nashville communities. Read More

The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces will hear argument in a case at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Vanderbilt's Flynn Auditorium. Read More

Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species. Read More

Vanderbilt business school students can access the same rigorous leadership training as corporate executives thanks to a new partnership between the Owen Graduate School of Management and Korn/Ferry International. Read More

Research on community issues such as housing and urban development, education and health care will be discussed Friday, Oct. 30, at the Vanderbilt Center for Community Studies Fall Conference. Read More

A developer of the Rock Band video game will speak at Vanderbilt University as part of the Curb Creative Leadership Series, followed by a Rock Band competition for Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff. Read More

A new marketing textbook by Vanderbilt professor Dawn Iacobucci launched this semester is among the first graduate level texts to utilize digital tools to enhance learning, according to the publisher, 4LTR Press. Read More

The Chef James Bistro, a 2,000-square-foot student dining facility located within Rand Hall at Vanderbilt University, has received certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Commercial Interiors (CI) program of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Read More

While longer-term options are being developed, individual households can reduce overall carbon emissions by implementing a series of small changes, such as lowering the temperature on water heaters and regularly performing maintenance on cars and air-conditioners, according to an article published today. Read More

Four years after its creation and only a year and a half after granting degrees to its first class, the MFA Creative Writing program at Vanderbilt University was named a Top 20 program in the country by Poets & Writers magazine. Read More

The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which debuts Nov. 6 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University, explores the destructive relationship between a cantankerous, domineering mother and her lonely, troubled daughter as they endlessly repeat a bitter daily battle of wits and wills. When a local bachelor offers the daughter a chance for romantic happiness, a series of shocking and irrevocable events ensues. Read More

Vanderbilt University announced Oct. 21 that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Wright and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Rick Haselton, titled "Coffee Ring Stain Diagnostics for Malaria." Read More

Figuring out how biological clocks evolved and extracting clues to environmental factors that cause cancer from electronic medical records: These are the goals of two projects that have been funded by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program. Read More

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, long known for its "hands-off" regulatory policy, appears to be changing course toward greater intervention in markets. New research by professors at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management finds that when it comes to index investors, more intervention is a mistake. Read More

Rosanna Warren, a renowned poet and critic and daughter of writers Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, will visit Vanderbilt University this month as the guest of the Warren Center, named for her father. Read More

Kim McMillan, former majority leader in the Tennessee House of Representatives, is the second in a series of Tennessee gubernatorial candidates to address students in Vanderbilt University's "Introduction to American Government and Politics" class. Read More