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Galileo looked through a telescope for the first time 400 years ago. The global "100 Hours of Astronomy Cornerstone Project" hopes to have as many people as possible look through a telescope as Galileo did from April 2 to 5. Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory will participate in the project by offering people a chance to view the stars on Saturday, April 4. Read More

Brighton Beach Memoirs, which debuts April 3 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University, is a semi-autobiographical, bittersweet comedy recalling the years of Tony-award winning playwright Neil Simon's family's struggle in New York during the Great Depression. Read More

Vanderbilt University experienced a decrease in crime in 2008 according to the latest figures compiled by the Vanderbilt Police Department for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's annual Crime on Campus report to be released in March. Read More

Members of Chicago's famed comedy theatre, The Second City, will do two shows at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday, March 20, at Vanderbilt University's Sarratt Cinema in the Sarratt Student Center. Read More

The Information Systems Security Association has honored Mark Johnson, chief information security officer for Vanderbilt University, with its Security Professional of the Year award for 2008. Read More

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Israeli legislator Natan Sharansky will deliver public lectures at Vanderbilt University March 17-18 as part of the university's annual Impact Symposium. Read More

Working in a global economy means a lot more than where a business builds or sends its products. Today, a business owner may operate a shipping business in Florida, have the business incorporated in Delaware, maintain the company's assets in an offshore bank account in the Cayman Islands and specify that any legal disputes be litigated in the United Kingdom. And this is all perfectly legal. Read More

The racially motivated riots in France during the fall of 2005 proved that despite its homogenous image, racial tensions are alive and well in Europe. The newly emerging field of Black European Studies is beginning to examine these racial tensions by studying the history and the current experience of blacks in the culture of Europe. Read More

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will speak about leadership at a March 26 breakfast sponsored by the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

Edward L. Rubin announced that he is stepping down from his position as dean of Vanderbilt University Law School effective June 30. Rubin said he will continue to teach and write as a member of the faculty. Read More

Christian beliefs have been used to support the myths that promote violence against women and to counter those myths, says theologian Rev. Traci C. West. During the annual Antoinette Brown Lecture at Vanderbilt University on March 26, West will address how Christian theology and activism can be used to make the world safer for women. Read More

The development of the institution of marriage at the beginning of recorded history will be examined by a professor from Vanderbilt Divinity School during a three-part class. Read More

New research by Vanderbilt professor of law and economics Joni Hersch found that housework not only reduces the salaries of women, but also affects some men's wages. She also found that women's salaries are negatively impacted by housework regardless of profession. Read More

Connie Vinita Dowell, a Vanderbilt University graduate with three decades of experience working in academic libraries, will begin her new position as the university's first dean of libraries on March 2. Dowell previously served as dean of the library and information access at San Diego State University. Read More

Ellen H. Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, has received a 2009 Humboldt Research Award. Read More

New research from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College offers guidance for teachers to help them improve writing instruction in the primary grades and develop stronger student writers. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once. Read More

A new way to negotiate the differences between the Hindu, Christian and Buddhist traditions will be proposed during a public lecture by a Vanderbilt Divinity School professor on March 10. Read More

Vanderbilt University plans to calculate the university's carbon footprint this spring through a greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The inventory will determine the amount of the six greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere that comprise the "carbon footprint" from Vanderbilt in an average year, based on 2005-2007 data. Read More

As the Obama administration begins its quest to right the economy through government spending, a counter story of recovery comes from admirers of the Reagan administration. President Reagan's admirers point out that he was also faced with a horrible economy upon his inauguration which, they assert, Reagan cured with deep tax cuts. Read More