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Nashville has experienced a three-fold increase in foreign-born residents since 1990 - from 12,662 to 39,596. However, 80 percent of agencies providing social services to these populations are located outside of immigrant communities, and the majority of agencies experience language barriers with the people they serve, according to a new report. Read More

Juan Williams, best-selling author and senior correspondent for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," will deliver the keynote address for Vanderbilt University's 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series Jan. 19-27. Read More

The basics of ethics will be the subject of the first community breakfast of 2004 sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School. C.Melissa Snarr, assistant professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt Divinity School, will speak from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29, at the University Club of Nashville. Read More

The director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute for Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt University will present a survey of the prophetic responses to racism during a four-part community education series that begins Jan. 19. Read More

Brandon Silveria knows firsthand the perils of drinking and driving. At age 17, after drinking a couple of beers at a high school party and then getting behind the wheel of his car, Silveria was involved in a near-fatal crash that left him comatose for three months. What followed were a grueling three-year rehabilitation and permanent speech and walking disabilities. Read More

Garrett C. Klein, senior associate director of undergraduate admissions at Vanderbilt University, died Sunday of injuries suffered in a traffic accident in Georgia. He was 32. Son Bennett Derby Klein, 4, also died in the accident. Read More

Samuel B. Richmond, who left a distinguished teaching and research career at Columbia University to move to Vanderbilt University, where he transformed the Owen Graduate School of Management from a small regional graduate school of business into one of the nation's best, died Monday. He was 84 Read More

Two Vanderbilt Kennedy Center investigators have been awarded mentor-based fellowships by the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) to advance the study of autism. Read More

A typical school day for a middle school student might involve a biology class with a study of growing plants, and later a math class spent solving equations that can be used in statistics. Read More

Vanderbilt research shows centralized "reverse supply chain" may not be effective for electronics, fashion Read More

For 50 years, Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory has been a window to the stars and planets for Nashvillians. Vanderbilt University officials, relatives of the founder and officials of the companies who contributed to making the observatory a reality will gather Friday, Dec. 12, to commemorate the facility's opening in December 1953. Read More

Former Vice President Al Gore has seized the opportunity to be a major player in the 2004 presidential campaign by endorsing Democratic candidate Howard Dean at this time, according to Vanderbilt University political scientist John Geer. Read More

Vanderbilt University researchers believe a slow electrochemical wave, known as a damped wave, may be one of the reasons that low-voltage defibrillation shocks fail to halt fibrillation in cardiac patients. Read More

Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, a prominent classical music institution of the southeastern United States, will launch a course in the blues during the spring semester. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development will host a workshop for children who have a sibling with special needs on Saturday, Dec. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Read More

How much do babies understand about the world around them? More than we ever expected, Harvard researcher and national expert on infant development Elizabeth Spelke discovered. Spelke will discuss infant development and what it reveals about the origins of human knowledge in her lecture Thursday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

Hazardous toys can still be found on store shelves across the country despite passage of the 1994 Child Safety Protection Act, according to a nationwide survey released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) and Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. Read More

Doug Fuchs, professor of special education, says a Bush administration proposal to overahaul Individuals with Disabilities Act could result in major cuts to funding for learning-disabled children. Listen to the radio interview with Ann Marie Deer Owens. Read More

America is experiencing a troubling deja vu - a second coming of the Gilded Age. Marked by an incredible disparity between the wealthy and poor, by waves of layoffs (especially in manufacturing) and business scandal after business scandal, this era is also burdened by a political culture that often seems heedless - or downright hostile - toward the well-being of the general American public. Read More

Blanche Wiesen Cook, biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt, will speak at Vanderbilt University at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4. Read More