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The vital process that transforms the identical cells in a fertilized egg into a multi-cellular embryo with a complicated shape and dozens of different cell types involves a surprising amount of movement: As development proceeds, cells move hither and yon in a complex choreography for reasons that largely remain mysterious. Read More

Being one of Vanderbilt University's first female African American students was a mixed but ultimately rewarding experience for Dorothy Phillips. Read More

Students with extraordinary scores on the SAT at age 12 go on to achieve exceptional life success into their 30s, researchers have found. Read More

An installation by Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Louis Cameron marks the first exhibition by an outside artist at Vanderbilt University's new E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center. Read More

A team of researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has been awarded $1.5 million from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Read More

Respect for a variety of religious traditions is growing in America, but that welcome development holds potential pitfalls for democracy, believes a Princeton University sociologist set to speak at Vanderbilt University. Read More

As tensions rise over the growing possibility of an avian flu pandemic, this week Infectious Diseases researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are launching a new trial of an avian flu vaccine. Read More

Former U.S. senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards and conservative journalist Peter Brimelow, known for his controversial writings on immigration policy, will deliver public lectures at Vanderbilt University March 20-21 as part of the university's annual Impact Symposium. Read More

Three prominent writers who also critique others in their field will participate in Vanderbilt University's annual Spring Symposium on March 23 and 24. Read More

With a "bold goal" to reinvest $300 million annually by 2016, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Harry Jacobson, M.D., told an auditorium packed with faculty, staff and students that he envisions Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be a far different place when it meets its ambitious 10-year goals. Read More

Sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rodney Stark, who debunks the notion that Christianity has held back scientific progress in his new book, delivered the second in a series of four lectures about why religions succeed or fail during a lecture series at Vanderbilt University Feb. 28. Read More

The goal of enhancing Jewish life at Vanderbilt University has been strengthened by the successful conclusion of a campaign to raise a $2.4 million endowment for the Vanderbilt Hillel. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have identified new molecular indicators ó or "biomarkers" ó of aging in the skin that could be used to evaluate anti-aging therapies. Their findings are reported in this month's Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Read More

The lives and accomplishments of black women will be celebrated in March and April with a documentary film series at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University. Read More

College students, campus administrators and non-profit professionals from across the country will converge at Vanderbilt University March 3-5 for discussions, networking and workshops on how to improve the quality of life on their campuses and in their communities through community service, activism and socially responsible work. Read More

Vanderbilt University encourages active journalists to apply to attend its 2007 media fellowship, "Meth Rescue: Meth's Effects on Children, Families and the Foster Care System," April 24-27, 2007, in Nashville, Tenn. Read More

It's time to rethink common assumptions about the nature of God which support the subjugation of women and non-whites, believes a leading feminist theologian set to lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

While spring break is traditionally a time set aside for rest and relaxation, more than 370 Vanderbilt University students will trade academic work for community during the university's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) Program March 6-10. The students will travel to 32 volunteer sites across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador and Guatemala as they engage in community service and learn about the problems faced by members of communities with whom they otherwise may have had little or no direct contact. Read More

It is election time again. Governor Bredesen and those seeking to replace him have begun to campaign. Seats in both houses of the General Assembly also are up for grabs. No issue is as important as education for Tennessee's long-run well being. Yet, it is difficult to elbow other urgencies aside and place our schools and colleges front and center. This should change. Read More

Educators and researchers have reacted with both enthusiasm and skepticism to President Bush's State of the Union call to improve America's competitiveness in math and science. Vanderbilt education and science experts are available to discuss what it will take to stop the United States' slide towards scientific and mathematic irrelevancy on the global stage. Read More