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Charles McDew, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its chairman from 1961 to 1964, will deliver the keynote lecture for Vanderbilt University's 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series. Read More

Vanderbilt University was judged No. 15 as a "best value" university in rankings released by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will host a free workshop for Nashville-area companies to learn how to get the ideal intern for their business. The workshop will be held at the Owen School, Room 218, on Jan. 16 at 8 a.m. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Vanderbilt won a bowl game for the first time in exactly 53 years after Bryant Hahnfeldt kicked a 45-yard field goal with 3:26 left to beat Boston College 16-14 Wednesday in the Music City Bowl. Read More

For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year's resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research from Vanderbilt finds that these individuals—labeled as novelty seekers by psychologists—face an uphill battle in keeping their New Year's resolutions due to the way their brains process dopamine. Read More

Cornelia Heard, professor of music and chair of the strings department of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, has been named the holder of the newly created Valere Blair Potter Chair. The chair is endowed through a gift to the university by the grandchildren of Valere Blair Potter. Read More

Lauren J. Brisky, who has overseen the financial and administrative operations of Vanderbilt University for the past decade as the university has made spectacular gains in its research, health care and educational endeavors, announced Dec. 26 she will retire Feb. 1, 2009, after 20 years at Vanderbilt. Read More

Space 204, the gallery of the Department of Art at E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center at Vanderbilt University, will debut two new exhibitions with a reception on Thursday, Jan. 8. Read More

Research by Vanderbilt University professors on Chinese architecture and the Trojan War are among grants announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read More

Marlon Lynch, assistant vice chancellor and chief of police at Vanderbilt University, has made Security Magazine's Top 25 Most Influential People in the Security Industry list for 2008. Others on the list include government leaders, industry authors, chief security officers and research pioneers. Read More

Four Vanderbilt faculty members – Daniel Liebler, Charles Sanders, Gary Sulikowski and Michael Waterman – have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon them by their peers. Read More

The Susan Gray School, part of Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development, has achieved national accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Susan Gray School is one of the first programs in the nation to achieve accreditation under NAEYC new, more extensive and more stringent standards, which were released in the fall of 2006. Read More

For the past several weeks, hundreds of people have entered their names in a drawing at Rand Bookstore for a chance to win Music City Bowl tickets. First-year student Caroline Hadley was the lucky winner on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Read More

The fast-growing number of withdrawal restrictions being imposed by hedge funds to curtail capital drain during the financial market crisis comes with a hefty price tag for fund investors, says a new study from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. The research comes as investors seek desperately to exit hedge funds to avoid further declines and the possibility of fund failure, yet face a suspension of redemptions by fund managers. Read More

Andrew B. Benedict Jr., a prominent Nashville banker and longtime member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, died Monday morning at home. He was 94. Read More

A detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites have revealed the existence of the warm plasma cloak, a new region of the magnetosphere, which is the invisible shield of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surround and protect Earth from the onslaught of the solar wind. Read More

Christopher P. Toft, a leading fundraiser in higher education and health care in Chicago has been named associate vice chancellor for university development at Vanderbilt. Read More

A member of the Vanderbilt University men's cross country team is one of five finalists for the Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup for being a positive influence. Vanderbilt senior Rob Whiting will learn on Jan. 14 whether he bests the other candidates at a ceremony at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Read More

On Wed., Dec. 17, Metro Councilman Keith Durbin, Vanderbilt University and Belmont University invite the public to attend a free, educational program on blasting for construction projects on both campuses. Read More

In a pioneering, interdisciplinary study combining law and neuroscience, researchers at Vanderbilt University peered inside people's minds to watch how the brain thinks about crime and punishment. Read More