Releases

Al Sharpton, Ann Coulter and Howard Dean will participate in question-and-answer sessions with the press before their sold-out lectures March 21-22. Read More

Akbar Ahmed, described by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as the world‘s leading authority on contemporary Islam, will speak at Vanderbilt University on Monday, March 28. Read More

Vanderbilt University will become the center of an ongoing conversation about the friction and connections between science and religion with the help of a grant from the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science in Philadelphia. Read More

When you grab a piece of food and put it in your mouth, when you smile in response to the smile of a passerby or squint and grimace in anger, the complex pattern of movements that you make may be hard-wired into your brain, according to Vanderbilt researchers writing this week in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition." Read More

The first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi, will speak at Vanderbilt University‘s Senior Class Day on Thursday, May 12, at 10 a.m. on Alumni Lawn. Read More

Laws and public policy will often miss their mark until they incorporate an understanding of why, biologically, humans behave as they do, scholars from Vanderbilt and Yale universities argue in the March issue of Columbia Law Review. Read More

Policy regarding weapons of mass destruction and balancing national security with arms control will be among the subjects U.S. Ambassador Robert T. Grey Jr. addresses at Vanderbilt University Law School on Monday, March 21. Read More

Vanderbilt University will celebrate the 132nd anniversary of its founding on Thursday, March 17, with a 10 a.m. ceremony at the statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who gave an initial $1 million to endow the university in 1873. Read More

A Vanderbilt engineering professor has been selected as one of a handful of high-level experts who advise the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on safe management of nuclear waste. Read More

After infecting a susceptible cell, the human immunodeficiency virus hijacks that cell‘s normal machinery to produce carbon copies of itself. New HIV particles roll off the cellular assembly lines, burst like bubbles out of the cell, and float off to invade other cellular factories. Read More

Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center have identified the first major gene that increases a person‘s risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Read More

David F. Dyer, president and chief executive officer of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation, has been selected to receive the 2005 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are looking beyond waistlines and into the role visceral fat plays in type 2 diabetes. Read More

Bernard Rollin, a philosopher who developed the first university course on veterinary ethics, will speak at Vanderbilt University March 23 about "Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenomenon." Read More

A bipartisan program called Congress to Campus will bring former national lawmakers James Broyhill and Butler Derrick to Vanderbilt March 17-18 to meet with students and faculty. Read More

Vanderbilt University will welcome the Rev. Al Sharpton, Ann Coulter and Howard Dean to its 41st annual Impact Symposium March 21-23. Read More

Works by women writers offer a significant resource to those searching for the connection between intellectual work and practical spiritual practice, says Harvard theologian Stephanie Paulsell, who will speak at Vanderbilt University March 17. Read More

James W. Bradford, a distinguished corporate executive turned educator, has been named dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and Ralph Owen Professor for the Practice of Management, announced Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nicholas Zeppos today. Bradford had served as acting dean of the Owen School since last June. Read More

A federal education official, state education commissioners and academic researchers will come together at Vanderbilt University March 8 and 9 to discuss how to apply current educational research to K-12 classrooms to improve teaching and meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind. Read More

Vanderbilt University‘s Alternative Spring Break program, one of the largest in the nation, will send 460 students to 39 volunteer sites across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Guatemala when the university observes Spring Break March 7-11. Read More