Releases

Journalist Lou Dobbs, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. will deliver public lectures at Vanderbilt University March 19-21 as part of the university‘s annual Impact Symposium. Read More

The degree to which morality and religion should influence political decisions about abortion, taxation, the environment and other issues will be explored in a four-part lecture series at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Seven Vanderbilt teams are ranked in the top 25 for their sports nationally. Baseball leads the group with Vanderbilt‘s first ever No. 1 ranking for a men‘s sport. Women‘s basketball is ranked 12th and men‘s basketball is ranked 17th, both by the Associated Press. Women‘s tennis, golf, bowling, and lacrosse are also ranked in the top 25 nationally. Read More

When the dust settles on a new renovation project involving Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center‘s Henry-Joyce Cancer Clinic, waiting room space and exam rooms will nearly double to help meet the needs of an ever increasing number of cancer patients in Middle Tennessee and beyond. Read More

Thirteen incoming freshmen have been chosen from a record more than 600 applicants as the newest members of the Ingram Scholarship program. Read More

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has received a three-year accreditation with commendation, the highest level of approval, from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS). Read More

Acclaimed writers Kwame Dawes, Teresa de la Caridad Doval, Lorna Goodison, Francisco Goldman and critic J. Edward Chamberlin will all visit Vanderbilt University in March to take part in a creative writing symposium. Read More

This fact sheet provides information about Vanderbilt employment policies and ongoing labor negotiations between the university and the Laborers International Union of America, which represents approximately 600 Vanderbilt employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research investigators and colleagues from around the world are releasing findings from the largest study to date seeking to identify genes that might increase the risk of autism. Read More

More than 500 Vanderbilt University students will dance the night away to benefit the health and well-being of area children during Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run event to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Children‘s Miracle Network. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research investigators and colleagues from around the world are releasing findings from the largest study to date seeking to identify genes that might increase risk of autism. Read More

In a series of challenging but fun competitions, the engineering students at Vanderbilt University will display their ingenuity and inventiveness to celebrate National Engineers Week February 19-24. Read More

A new organization with a goal of making healthy food reliably available to all Middle Tennesseans will publicly launch Friday, Feb. 23 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Country Music Hall of Fame in downtown Nashville. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Anti-poverty expert to get honorary degree on February 23 Read More

Vanderbilt University was welcomed Thursday into the Million Dollar Circle of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, in recognition of generosity during the 2006 United Way campaign. Read More

Professor Yi Cui has gotten recognition - and funding - for his novel idea that could give YouTube a run for its money. Read More

David Williams II of Vanderbilt University has been elected a fellow by the Tennessee Bar Foundation. Read More

Nashville Vice Mayor Howard Gentry Jr. will share stories with middle and high school students across the nation about growing up in a segregated Nashville when he is a presenter for the Vanderbilt Virtual School on Feb. 15. "Breaking the Color Barrier" will be a step back in time to a very different life for African-Americans in the 1950s and even ‘60s, according to Patsy Partin, director of the Virtual School. Read More

A new album of uplifting music from Uganda compiled by a Vanderbilt University ethnomusicologist is being released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of the effort to combat HIV/AIDS. Read More

Vanderbilt University Peabody College of education and human development experts are available to discuss various aspects of No Child Left Behind as Congress considers its reauthorization in 2007. Read More