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A Vanderbilt University alumna who helped redesign key alumni initiatives, including ones that reach out to current students, and a graduating senior who has served in numerous leadership roles are the newest members of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. Read More

Listen to podcasts from the Food Security Summit, which addressed many of our region's most pressing issues -- including hunger, poverty, obesity, land use, development and the depletion of natural resources -- through their connection to food. Read More

Early in his new book Arts, Inc., Bill Ivey recounts the tale of a warehouse demolition in Camden, N.J., in the 1960s. The building was destroyed with dynamite, the resulting rubble and shattered contents bulldozed into the Delaware River. Read More

In what has become a summertime tradition in Nashville, the popular Bluebird on the Mountain concert series begins its fourth season at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. This year\'s series opens with a show featuring performances by Tony Haselden, Georgia Middleman and Billy Kirsch. The 2008 series ñ which includes six concerts ñ runs from May 17 to Oct. 11 and will showcase nearly two dozen of Nashville\'s finest singer-songwriters. Read More

A free electronics recycling event will be held at LP Field from May 14 to May 17. A large number of items are expected to be recycled on Wednesday, May 14, providing photo and video opportunities. Items could include computer systems, monitors, printers, copiers, fax machines, TVs, cell… Read More

Accomplishments will flow naturally from the talents, training and motivation of Vanderbilt graduates, said Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Vanderbilt Commencement ceremony on Friday. Happiness is a trickier proposition, he said, and offered some guidance on how to achieve it. (Video and audio of address included). Read More

The Music City Quarter Midget Racing Association will hold a charity race on Saturday, May 31, to benefit Vanderbilt LifeFlight\'s transport program. Read More

Graduating students will receive diplomas at Vanderbilt University\'s Commencement on Friday, May 9, starting at 9 a.m. on Alumni Lawn, near West End Avenue and 23rd Avenue North. Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos will give the Commencement address to graduates. Read More

New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early migration route followed the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago. Read More

Genetic variation in the DNA of mitochondria ñ the "power plants" of cells ñ contributes to a person's risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Vanderbilt investigators report May 7 in the journal PLoS ONE. Read More

Graduating seniors should become "the new American revolutionaries" aiming for the stars even if they find themselves sometimes lying in the gutter, said musician and social activist Bob Geldof, who gave the Senior Day address Thursday to Vanderbilt graduates. Read More

A roundup of news and feature items related to Vanderbilt Commencement, May 7-9, 2008. Read More

Terry B. Grier will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College of education and human development during Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 9. Grier is the new superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, in San Diego. Read More

Vanderbilt\'s Senior Class Day lecture on Thursday, May 8, has been moved to Memorial Gym because of the threat of severe weather. Musician and social activist Bob Geldof will now speak at 10 a.m. in the gym. Read More

There is a threat of severe weather on Thursday, May 8. Senior Class Day events will be moved indoors. Video of the event will be streamed live from this Web site at 10 a.m. Read More

In his May 9 commencement address at Vanderbilt\'s Owen Graduate School of Management, Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, will tell graduating MBAs that the heart and soul of a business resides inside its people and transcends success in the marketplace. Read More

Vanderbilt University\'s police department is joining with hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the country to intensify efforts to enforce seat belt laws during the 2008 Click It or Ticket campaign May 12 - June 1. Read More

Richard McCarty, a distinguished psychologist who has led the largest school at Vanderbilt University for the past seven years, will be presented to the Vanderbilt Board of Trust next week for confirmation as the university\'s chief academic officer. Read More

Discovery Education and Vanderbilt University are partnering to launch a new research-based evaluation tool that measures the effectiveness of school principals. The Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED), which is being exclusively distributed by Discovery Education, was created at Vanderbilt University through a grant from the Wallace Foundation. Read More

Two professors in Vanderbilt\'s College of Arts and Science have been named 2008 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Michael D. Bess, the Chancellor\'s Professor of History, and Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German, are among 190 recipients in the United States and Canada to receive a Guggenheim. Read More