Releases

Vanderbilt University will host a number of events leading up to and on the day of the Oct. 7 presidential debate in Nashville. Read More

An exhibit of video art curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and another of photographic imagery by artist Blue Mitchell will open Oct. 15 at the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Peter Applebome, writer and editor at the New York Times, will present a lecture on Monday, Oct. 13, at 4:10 p.m. in Room 126 of Wilson at Vanderbilt University. Read More

To bring this historic election straight into classrooms, the Vanderbilt Virtual School has created an interactive videoconferencing program that gives 5th through 12th grade teachers a curriculum and a slate of expert instructors, including CNN commentator Lou Dobbs, to share with their students. Read More

Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person. Read More

Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and one of the country's leading scholars of religion, will speak at Vanderbilt University, on Thursday, Oct. 16, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. Her lecture is titled "Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Di Vinci: What We Know … and How We Know It." Read More

A message from David Williams, vice chancellor for university affairs and athletics to the Vanderbilt community about the big Oct. 4 game with Auburn and ESPN\'s presence on campus that day. Read More

The youth vote will play an important role in this year's presidential election and Vanderbilt University students will be tuning in to Thursday's vice presidential debate at a group viewing on campus. Read More

Vanderbilt University's seven-year initiative to reduce students' education-related debt will take a bold step forward in fall 2009 when the university replaces all need-based student loans with Vanderbilt grant and scholarship assistance while continuing to fully meet the demonstrated need of its undergraduates. Read More

An interdisciplinary group of scientists has obtained the first detailed information about the structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses. Read More

Soledad O'Brien, anchor and special correspondent for CNN: Special Investigations Unit, will deliver a talk, "Diversity: On TV, Behind the Scenes and in Our Lives," 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Langford Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Count ESPN\'s College GameDay crew - yes, Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard - among the audience for Vanderbilt\'s nationally televised meeting with Southeastern Conference Western Division power Auburn this Saturday on campus. ESPN officials confirmed Sunday morning that its popular "College GameDay Built by the Home Depot" show will broadcast from the Vanderbilt campus on Saturday, October 4. It will mark College GameDay\'s first appearance in Nashville. Read More

The role of homosexuals in the Christian Church will be examined at a three-day workshop at a Nashville church. The "Our Family Matters" workshop Oct. 22-25 will include a screening of the documentary God and Gays: Bridging the Gap, which inspired the conference. Read More

Frank Warren, founder and curator of the PostSecret Project, brings his story to Vanderbilt University Friday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. at Langford Auditorium. Read More

Candidates on the November ballot in Middle Tennessee – in contests ranging from president to state lawmaker – have been invited to meet the Vanderbilt community, including the university's neighbors, at a Sept. 25 picnic on Olin Lawn. Read More

The New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield and Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler bring a discussion, "Race, Religion and Politics: Evangelicals, Conservatives and Liberals Look for Common Ground," to Vanderbilt University Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 6 p.m. Read More

DiscoverLibrary, Vanderbilt University's online research tool, is now more easily accessible through the Vanderbilt University Web site. Online users can locate an expanding variety of resources by clicking on the DiscoverLibrary search box, which has been added to the Vanderbilt Students and Research Web pages. Read More

Community leaders, educators and a hip-hop artist will gather at Vanderbilt University to discuss hip-hop, the presidential election and the youth vote Thursday, Sept. 25, at 6 p.m. in the multi-purpose room at The Commons Center. Read More

James J. Yee, Army captain and former chaplain at the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was falsely accused of espionage and arrested and imprisoned for nearly three months before charges were dropped, will bring his story to Vanderbilt Monday, Sept. 22. Read More

The best state financial aid policies focus on students who would not otherwise go to college and make aid simple to apply for and keep, a new research review by Vanderbilt University higher education researcher William Doyle finds. The review has implications for federal financial aid policies. Read More