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Treasured television news specials broadcast from 1968 to 2003 will become more accessible to the public, thanks to the Vanderbilt Television News Archive receiving new funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read More

The next time you hear a political candidate blast his or her opponent in a negative political advertisement, your natural inclination may be to grab the remote and change the channel. Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer contends, however, that you may want to leave the remote alone. Read More

A Vanderbilt University physics professor is one of 13 young scientists named a 2006 Cottrell Scholar, a $100,000 fellowship designed to encourage early-career science researchers who show promise. Read More

Singer-songwriters Tony Mullins, Kent Blazy and Monty Holmes will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 8, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series. Read More

Children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, researchers have found, offering new insight into how to help these children in a more holistic way. Read More

The state of Tennessee has recognized Vanderbilt University for its leadership and innovation in protecting the environment with the 2006 Governor's Environmental Stewardship Award in Pollution Prevention. Read More

President George W. Bush announced June 15 that he will nominate Camilla P. Benbow to the National Science Board, an independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation. Benbow is Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. Read More

President George W. Bush recently announced his intention to nominate Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., as a member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Police Department has announced the following promotions and staff changes effective July 1. Read More

Internationally renowned derivative securities expert Robert E. Whaley has been named the Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Whaley, who began his academic career at the Owen School 28 years ago, most recently was the T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he had been on faculty since 1986. Read More

The district attorney prosecuting the rape case against three of Duke University's lacrosse players received significant support from both black and white voters in the recent Durham primary, according to a voting analysis by Vanderbilt University political scientist Christian Grose. Read More

With a thousand distractions vying for your attention, how do you stay focused? Just who, or rather what, is in charge of your brain? New research into how the brain manages information has found that an area previously thought to be just an information collector in fact plays the role of an executiveóhelping to filter out extraneous information to help you stay focused. The findings offer potential insights into helping people with attention disorders. Read More

The Food and Drug Administration is examining study data from Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, to determine if new warnings should be placed on common blood pressure medications indicating an increased risk of birth defects for babies whose mothers take these medications during the first trimester of pregnancy. Read More

When 24-year-old Charles Dougherty checks into Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center tomorrow, he'll be preparing for a treatment that has never been performed before in an adult patient in Nashville, and will be only the second case in Tennessee history. Read More

Lou H. Silberman, an internationally recognized scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Judaic studies and longtime campus leader at Vanderbilt University, died June 6 in Tucson, Ariz. He was 91. Read More

Mike Newton, acting associate clinical professor of law at Vanderbilt University, is an expert on war crimes and international criminal law. Vanderbilt University Professor of History Thomas Alan Schwartz says that one of the real dangers about the Haditha investigation is that the truth about the incident could become secondary to opposing political agendas. Read More

Robyn Minton, director of the YWCA's Domestic Violence Services program, has been named the first recipient of tuition sponsorship to the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Executive MBA (EMBA) program under the school's partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management. The sponsorship, which will pay Minton's tuition for the 21-month program, is valued at about $73,000. Read More

Admission will be free to attend faculty and ensemble concerts at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music starting with the fall 2006 semester, announced Dean Mark Wait. Read More

About 20 Vanderbilt University students will work with health organizations in Uganda this summer as part of that country's response to HIV/AIDS. Read More

The possibility that Iraqi civilians were massacred at Haditha has brought back painful memories for many about the infamous My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, according to Vanderbilt University Professor of History Thomas Alan Schwartz. Read More