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Vanderbilt and Peabody faculty are available to offer perspective on education issues and other current topics for the year 2010. Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty are available to offer perspective on business issues and other current topics for the year 2010. Read More

As you consider year-in-review stories and look ahead to the trends of 2010, Vanderbilt University faculty are available to offer perspective on these and other topics. mailto:bruce.barry@vanderbilt.edu Read More

Vanderbilt University has named Michael Brown associate director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Life. Read More

Vanderbilt University is already gearing up for spring with the launch of its new Web site on all things Commencement at www.vanderbilt.edu/commencement. Read More

Randall Kenan, an acclaimed author of novels, short stories, memoir and commentary, will read from his work at Vanderbilt University on Jan. 28. Read More

A large national study of economic behavior led by a Vanderbilt researcher has found that effective recycling laws encourage reluctant recyclers to become committed recyclers. Read More

As the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit continues, two Vanderbilt researchers suggest that regardless of whether or not the meeting is successful in bringing public governance measures to bear, significant carbon reductions can be achieved by creating private incentives to reduce carbon emissions. Read More

A team of MBA students from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management took second place in a prestigious MBA case competition, the University of Texas at Austin National Real Estate Challenge. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Police Department has earned accreditation through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., whose programs are open to law enforcement agencies around the world. Read More

Luke Froeb, a Vanderbilt University business professor and former Chief Economist at the FTC said he sees very little horizontal overlap in the NBC/Comcast merger. But that wouldn't necessarily stop the Federal Communications Commission from asking for relief to assuage competitive and diversity concerns, said Froeb. Read More

Walburga von Raffler-Engel, a widely published linguistics expert who taught at Vanderbilt University for two decades, died on Nov. 28 in San Antonio. She was 89. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center has filled key positions with the naming of Anna Guest-Jelley as associate director and Kayti Protos as program coordinator. Read More

A leading international law expert cautions that the troop surge in Afghanistan must be accompanied by a concurrent improvement in the nation's system of justice, now plagued by lawlessness and graft. Read More

Jim Bradford has been re-appointed dean of Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management for a five-year term, effective July 1. The announcement was made by Richard McCarty, vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost. Read More

Anita Jenious has been named the director of the Opportunity Development Center at Vanderbilt University after serving as the interim director for two years. Read More

Two Vanderbilt University student organizations have teamed up to host "Miracle on 24th Ave.," a holiday-themed fashion show benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Read More

A Vanderbilt professor who specializes in death penalty cases is available as a source for the coming trial of professed 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others implicated in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack. Read More

Vanderbilt was named to an "honor roll" of universities with full female professors in economics. The list was compiled by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) of the American Economic Association. Read More

Recently declassified archival materials offer new insight into the reasons behind the changing dynamics of transatlantic relations since the 1970s, according to Thomas Alan Schwartz, co-editor of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter. Read More