Releases

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley will speak Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been selected as one of nine teams nationwide to participate in a landmark program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to design and test bold ideas for how consumers can use information technology to better manage their health and navigate the health care system. Read More

"Airline consolidation is inevitable," says Michael Lapr√à, associate professor of management at Vanderbilt University‘s Owen School of Management and an expert on the airline industry. Media reports say UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines, is in preliminary talks with Continental Airlines about a possible merger. Lapr√à says airline mergers are unavoidable and, "a sensible idea to pursue." Read More

Vanderbilt LifeFlight‘s Office of Emergency Communications has been designated as the EMS Regional Communications Center (EMS RCC) for the Mid-Cumberland Region by Tennessee Department of Health EMS officials. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) to apply the powerful science of proteomics to drug discovery. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has established a committee of accounting industry leaders to serve as advisers for its new master of accountancy (MAcc) degree program. Read More

Ask most faculty, administrators, staff and students if they are interested in helping students succeed in college and the answer is likely to be a resounding yes. Ask them what exactly they mean by student success and the answer will probably be much more muddied. Read More

Are you one of those people who never forgets a face? New research from Vanderbilt University suggests that we can remember more faces than other objects and that faces "stick" the best in our short-term memory. The reason may be that our expertise in remembering faces allows us to package them better for memory. Read More

Wendell "Sonny" Rawls, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will visit Vanderbilt University during the spring 2007 semester to teach Investigative Reporting in America. Read More

Two Vanderbilt University professors are taking on some country music celebrities in a debate over media ownership. Both sides will testify at a Federal Communications Commission public hearing Dec. 11 at Belmont University. Read More

Nuclear power might be "green power," but only if nuclear waste can be managed properly. Read More

Marlon C. Lynch has been named Vanderbilt University‘s chief of police effective Jan. 1. Read More

Apocalypto continues tradition of inaccurately disparaging native cultures. The rich culture and complex intellectual achievements of Maya culture are ignored in Mel Gibson‘s new film Apocalypto in favor of stereotypical portrayals of Native Americans as "noble savages" or "evil Indians," says Annabeth Headrick, a Vanderbilt University professor and expert on the Maya. Read More

Vanderbilt University alumnus Marc Weill, whose early interest in geology was sidetracked by a career in high finance, is sharing his love of what he calls "nature‘s art" by lending his alma mater part of his extensive collection of gem-quality minerals. Read More

George J. Graham, a noted political theorist who was passionate about teaching and cared deeply for his students, died on Nov. 30 after a battle with lung cancer. Read More

Francis Craig had a bit of a disreputable air in his days on the Vanderbilt campus in the early 1920s, according to music historian Martin Hawkins. Read More

Programs promoting home ownership and bilingual skills within the Middle Tennessee Hispanic community will be recognized Dec. 4 during Conexi√õn Am√àricas‘ "Celebration of Achievements" at Vanderbilt University. The event, which is sponsored by Vanderbilt‘s Center for the Americas, will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the university‘s Alumni Hall. Read More

The good news for NFL players who sustain an injury to their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is that they‘ll likely play again in the NFL. The bad news is, they‘ll return with diminished performance on the field, concludes a study in the December issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College faculty are poised to influence what could be the most significant school integration Supreme Court cases since Brown v. Board of Education. Read More

Jeffrey Benedict, a senior majoring in modern European studies with a minor in musicology at Vanderbilt University, is among the 12 recipients nationwide for the coveted 2007-2008 George J. Mitchell Scholarship. He is the first Vanderbilt student to receive this award. Read More