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Electronic industry entrepreneur Paul Tuinenga has joined Vanderbilt University as principal staff engineer and program manager for software development for the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics. Read More

President Bush will have a difficult time shifting the national conversation away from Iraq, believes presidential historian Thomas Alan Schwartz. Although his State of the Union may contain some interesting proposals on health care, energy and the environment, a conflict as politicized as the Iraq war will still dominate headlines. "Historically, domestic issues tend to pale next to foreign policy when there is a military conflict," Schwartz said. Read More

Four new development officials have joined the staff of Vanderbilt University‘s Department of Development and Alumni Relations. Read More

The public is invited to experience "living history" Friday, Jan. 26, as those involved in the historic 1961 Freedom Rides discuss their experiences and talk about race relations in Nashville during the civil rights movement. Vanderbilt University‘s Office of Active Citizenship and Service and Fisk University have partnered to host the panel discussion scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. at Fisk Memorial Chapel. The event is free. Read More

There is a dark side to even the humble raindrop. A single drop is harmless, but when billions of raindrops from a cloudburst fall on bare soil they strike like billions of tiny hammers, dislodging tons of soil per acre which is carried away by surface runoff. Read More

A chemical engineering professor at Vanderbilt University will lead the science programs of an Oak Ridge National Laboratory center that is designing and developing next-generation nanoscale materials. Read More

The Rev. James Lawson, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt and a key leader in the nonviolent resistance efforts of the civil rights movement, will be the featured speaker at the Vanderbilt Peabody College 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. His lecture, "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" will take place on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 12:30 p.m. in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. This event is free and open to the public. Read More

Leftover vegetable oil from Vanderbilt Dining Services will be turned into biodiesel fuel, if a student team wins a national competition for a $25,000 grant to fund campus-based environmental projects. Read More

Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos will talk about her battle with anorexia Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a conference to encourage black church leaders, scholars and divinity students to create a dialogue about contemporary challenges facing the ministry of black churches. The Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies at the Vanderbilt Divinity School will present "Preparing Prophets and Priests for the Black Church Tradition" Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. All sessions are free and open to the public. Read More

Former U.S. Rep. and Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. has been appointed visiting professor of public policy at Vanderbilt University and will teach a class on American political leadership. Read More

Nearly 10 percent of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) victims have mutations or variations in genes associated with potentially lethal heart rhythms (arrhythmias), according to two newly published studies involving Vanderbilt researchers. Read More

There will be a lot of drama on the Vanderbilt University campus each day at high noon during the week of Jan. 22. Read More

A new organization to assist black women pursue careers in philosophy has been launched at Vanderbilt University through a five-year pilot program. Read More

Two business professionals are taking charge of essential parts of the Owen Graduate School of Management. John Roeder has been promoted to Owen‘s director of admissions and Joyce Rothenberg is now director of Owen‘s Career Management Center. Read More

Monica Gibson, a Vanderbilt University graduate student working on her master‘s in public policy at Peabody College, has been offered an internship at the U.S. mission to UNESCO in Paris. She will be one of two American interns serving this spring. Read More

Poet and novelist Richard Katrovas will read from his upcoming memoir The Years of Smashing Bricks at Vanderbilt University on Tuesday, Feb. 6. Read More

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Constance Rice, co-founder and co-director of The Advancement Project, a public policy and legal action group, has cancelled her speaking engagement at Vanderbilt University on Monday, Jan. 15. Read More

Raymond DuBois Jr., M.D., Ph.D., will leave his position as director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center later this year to return to his native Texas as provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Read More

Christine Bradley will join Vanderbilt University‘s public affairs team Feb. 12 as assistant vice chancellor for community, neighborhood and government relations. Read More