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Raising hefty sums of cash early in the 2008 presidential campaign puts candidates in the driver's seat for competing successfully in the primaries, according to Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science John Geer. Read More

Three Vanderbilt University students have been awarded 2007 Goldwater Scholarships, earning up to $7,500 a year to pursue the study of mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development rose to No. 3 in U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional schools released on Friday. Vanderbilt's schools of business, law and engineering all improved their positions. Read More

The Trojan War, sparked by the abduction of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is over. The Greeks, led by Odysseus, are victorious. Odysseus has not yet spent his 10 years traveling the world in the tales made famous in Homer's Odyssey. Read More

Adjunct professor of health care innovation and entrepreneurship Michael Burcham is using his expertise as a teacher and a current CEO to lead a team of fellow professors, students and volunteers for this year's Accelerator-Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute. Read More

A new Vanderbilt University study has identified a chemical signal that plays a critical role in forming the heart, which could lead to new strategies to combat congenital heart defects. Read More

Will people learn to be more tolerant in the 21st century than we are now? That's the question the current chief justice of Canada's Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, will discuss when she speaks at Vanderbilt Law School April 5 at 3:30 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read More

"I Got a Woman" was a No. 1 R&B hit for Ray Charles in 1955, but the scope of both the song's origins and influence are still largely unappreciated. Read More

Vanderbilt University has named Clinical Professor of Management David Owens to assistant to the provost for strategic process innovation. Read More

If Alberto Gonzales survives a growing loss of support on Capitol Hill, the standoff between the executive branch and Congress over whether to require sworn testimony from Bush aides is not likely to reach the courts, according to Vanderbilt University judicial expert Stefanie Lindquist. Read More

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, an expert in women's studies with a particular interest in the lives of African American women, will give Vanderbilt University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's annual lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

The author of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, which has been called the Dilbert of academia, will speak at Vanderbilt University about "The Power of Procrastination." Read More

Historian Wilson Miscamble will explore Harry Truman's sudden transition to the presidency when Franklin Roosevelt died and its true impact on the outbreak of the Cold War in a Vanderbilt University public lecture on March 26. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will participate in a large-scale national clinical trial to learn if the nutritional supplement creatine can slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. Read More

Watch live streaming video of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. delivering the third of the three 2007 Impact lectures at 7:30 p.m. March 21. Read More

Watch video of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich delivering the second of the three 2007 Impact lectures March 20 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt University is recruiting local families to take part in a study that is examining ways to help families cope with depression. The study, named the Raising Healthy Children Project, is part of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study designed to decrease depression among children. Read More

Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D., wants to bring back the one-room schoolhouse. Read More

"It's time to regulate the airline industry; customers need a passengers' bill of rights." A recent massive snowstorm grounded and delayed hundreds of flights across the country. While many airlines found successful ways to handle the delays, some Jet Blue customers were trapped on planes for more than nine hours, with overflowing toilets. Other passengers were forced to camp out for days at airports, with no clear solution from Jet Blue. Airline expert Michael LaprÈ believes this latest evidence of "massive miscalculations from the airlines," shows that it is time for regulation. Read More

Fifty years ago, two men took a bold step for themselves and for the future of Vanderbilt University Law School. Shortly after the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, and after strong encouragement from the law faculty, Vanderbilt Law School broke the color barrier and became the first privately funded law school in the South to admit African American students. Read More