Releases
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Vanderbilt’s Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal to be awarded to Bob Geldof; Live Aid organizer will speak during Senior Class Day on May 8
Musician and social activist Bob Geldof will receive Vanderbilt University\'s third Nichols-Chancellor\'s Medal and the cash prize of more than $100,000 on May 8, when he will address graduating seniors and their families. Read MoreMar 12, 2008
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Islamic scholar will lecture on gender and change at Vanderbilt; Amina Wadud will deliver annual Antoinette Brown Lecture
Prominent Muslim scholar Amina Wadud will lecture at Vanderbilt University on "Islam, Gender and Change" for the annual Antoinette Brown Lecture. Read MoreMar 12, 2008
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Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory offering public events monthly from March to November
Vanderbilt\'s Dyer Observatory is open to the public at least once a month starting in March for either a free Open House Telescope Night or an Exploration Night. Reservations are required for Exploration Nights and there is a $5/person, $10/family fee. Read MoreMar 12, 2008
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Trends and traditions of African American worship to be explored in class; Relevant Religion sessions to be held March 25, April 1 and 8
Creative approaches to preaching and worship in African American Christianity will be detailed in classes led by two Vanderbilt Divinity School professors as part of Vanderbilt\'s Relevant Religion Series. Read MoreMar 11, 2008
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Vanderbilt welcomes Chancellor Zeppos
Vanderbilt\'s eighth chancellor promised "my hardest work" and reflected about the journey of his family from Greece to America as he addressed the entire Vanderbilt community for the first time as chancellor, instead of interim chancellor. Read MoreMar 10, 2008
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Affordable housing conference set for March 13 at Vanderbilt; Nashville Mayor Karl Dean among speakers
Affordable housing - in Nashville and across the nation - is the topic of a daylong conference Thursday, March 13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College Wyatt Center. Read MoreMar 10, 2008
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Vanderbilt education researcher wins top national dissertation award
Vanderbilt education researcher Christopher Loss has won the American Education Research Association, Division J (Post-Secondary Education) Dissertation of the Year Award. Read MoreMar 10, 2008
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‘Debating Immigration’ symposium March 20-21 at Vanderbilt Law School
A distinguished group of scholars, journalists and activists will grapple with some of the thorniest issues of immigration during a March 20-21 symposium at the Vanderbilt Law School. The event is free and open to the public. Read MoreMar 10, 2008
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Vanderbilt University celebrates new chancellor at March 10 open house; Live video at 11 a.m.
Vanderbilt will celebrate the selection of Nicholas S. Zeppos as the university\'s eighth chancellor during a special open house Monday, March 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Student Life Center. Read MoreMar 7, 2008
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Symposium at Vanderbilt University to focus on the life and works of Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig March 13-14
Franz Rosenzweig was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, and in recent years his journals, letters and writings have been an important spur to thinking about the possibilities and limits of the humanities. He also remains a central figure in fields as varied as literature, history, philosophy and religious studies. Read MoreMar 7, 2008
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Three Nobel Laureates visit Vanderbilt in the next month
In the space of only five weeks, three Nobel Prize-winning physicists will visit the Vanderbilt campus and provide local researchers with updates on the latest developments in fields ranging from cosmology to the behavior of atoms to science education. Two of the three will also give free public lectures while they are here. Read MoreMar 7, 2008
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Link Found Between Vegetables and Decreased Risk of Breast Cancer
When your mother told you to eat your vegetables it appears that maternal wisdom had a scientific basis. Researchers with Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Shanghai Cancer Institute in China have discovered a possible link between a diet rich in certain vegetables and a decreased risk for breast cancer. The study appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Read MoreMar 7, 2008
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Topsy-Turvy World of Daylight-Saving Time Returns
The arrival of daylight-saving time this weekend means extra time for evening yard work or barbecues, but for some it also means sleepy days at work and even a bit of crankiness. Read MoreMar 7, 2008
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Youth gangs and public safety focus of Vanderbilt conference; Experts to examine gang prevention policies in United States and Central America
With dangerous youth gangs becoming firmly entrenched in communities throughout the United States and Central America, a March 11 conference at Vanderbilt University will bring together leading experts to share solutions to the alarming problem. Read MoreMar 6, 2008
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Lecture describes mankind’s special place in the universe
Exploding stars and black holes. Colliding galaxies and dark matter. Dark energy and cosmic inflation. The universe that modern science has revealed is strange and wild and beautiful, but doesn\'t seem particularly hospitable to life or very comprehensible. Read MoreMar 6, 2008
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‘Acting black’ hinders gifted black student achievement
Gifted black students often underachieve in school because of efforts to "act black," new research has found, offering insights into the achievement gap between black and white students in the United States and why black students are under-represented in gifted programs. Read MoreMar 6, 2008
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Vanderbilt Study Finds Genes Impact Response to Blood Thinner Warfarin
Variations in a gene involved in blood clotting determine patients\' initial response to the common blood thinner warfarin, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have reported. Read MoreMar 5, 2008
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Op-Ed: Crackdown shakes up a whole community
An op-ed by Vanderbilt sociologist Dan Cornfield criticizing recent actions involving immigrants in Middle Tennessee. Read MoreMar 5, 2008
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Democrats’ negativity will strengthen eventual nominee, says VU professor
While some Democrats fear that the increasingly negative tone in the protracted battle for the Democratic presidential nomination will hurt the party\'s chances in November, a Vanderbilt University political scientist anticipates just the opposite. Read MoreMar 5, 2008
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Photography exhibit at Vanderbilt highlights perspective of single parents; Valerie Taylor’s work on display at university during March
Rising photographer Valerie Taylor\'s first exhibit is about family from the perspective of single parents. Read MoreMar 5, 2008