Releases

Pink fingers, toes and lips. Those were the things 2-year-old Amenah Al-Bayati\'s mother noticed when she saw her daughter for the first time after open heart surgery to repair a serious birth defect. Read More

Michael Schoenfeld, Vanderbilt University\'s chief communications, government and community relations officer and spokesman for more than a decade, will leave at the end of the academic year to become the vice president for public affairs and government relations at Duke University in North Carolina, effective July 1. Read More

This month, Vanderbilt University Medical Center will begin routine and rapid HIV testing of all adults seen in the Emergency Department unless they "opt out" of the procedure. Read More

The predictive power of U.S. financial market returns in January for market performance the rest of the year has long been lore on Wall Street. Given the tumultuous start to 2008, investors may want to consider recent research by a professor from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management that finally puts some real evidence behind the legendary "January Barometer." The forecast: a tough year ahead. Read More

Bill Lambert, a second-year student at Vanderbilt\'s Owen Graduate School of Management, is the first recipient of the Max Adler scholarship. Lambert is the son of Bill and Harva Leigh Lambert of Ladue, Mo. Read More

Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center researchers are reporting that melatonin, an over-the-counter and relatively inexpensive dietary supplement taken for insomnia and jet lag, shows promise in treating children with autism who have difficulty falling asleep. Read More

In addition to the loss of his mother, Kerri, 11-month-old Kyson Stowell\'s family also lost everything they owned in the devastating tornado that struck CastilianSprings, Tenn. Read More

Shrews are tiny mammals that have been widely characterized as simple and primitive. This traditional view is challenged by a new study of the hunting methods of an aquatic member of the species, the water shrew. Read More

Mobile cameras, high-resolution digital imaging and funding from the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University are among the key components of a cross-cultural pilot program to prevent vision loss in at-risk Latin Americans. Read More

Rigoberta Menchu, a Mayan Indian from Guatemala internationally recognized for her work for social justice and cultural reconciliation for indigenous people, will speak at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. at Benton Chapel on Vanderbilt University\'s campus. Read More

Poet and novelist Judson Mitcham, the only two-time winner of the Townsend Prize for Fiction, will read from his work at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Buddy Miller, Jimmy Hall and Ashley Cleveland with Kenny Greenburg are among the performers who will perform gospel blues songs at a concert that is part of a semester-long study of "God in Music City"at Vanderbilt University. Read More

A central fact of the 2008 nomination process is that many citizens are undecided or have weakly held preferences. Read More

Crossbow Inc., a leading provider of wireless sensor network platforms, has given a research program at Vanderbilt\'s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) a gift of $50,000 to help advance the state of the art in wireless sensor networks (WSN). Read More

Obsessively detailed drawings and animations of zombies, sÈances and ghosts will darken the halls of the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center this winter, in the form of a dual show by Mark Hosford and Bill Fick. Read More

A multi-disciplinary panel will take up the controversial topic of state-required vaccinations for sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Tennessee\'s first-ever Food Security Summit will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Feb. 16, at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville. Mayor Karl Dean will address the expected crowd of over 250 farmers, chefs, retailers, health and service providers, gardeners and interested citizens at 10 a.m. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $4.5 million grant from Seaside Therapeutics to find potential treatments for fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of mental retardation and the most common genetic cause of autism. Read More

The Last Five Years is the compelling story of Jamie, a nice Jewish boy, and Kathleen, a good Irish Catholic girl, who fall in love, get married and fall apart over the course of five years. It debuts Feb. 15 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. Read More

To mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by the United States, Vanderbilt University is offering a film series examining the war. The entire series is free and open to the public. Read More