Releases

Heather Sellers, an acclaimed memoirist, novelist, writing instructor and poet, will read from her work at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Alerts about breaking Vanderbilt campus news, upcoming events and new research can now be received on cell phones via Vanderbilt's new text messaging service, MobileVU. Read More

The Vanderbilt Breast Center is offering a new class for breast cancer survivors during or after treatment, using the ancient Chinese practice of Qigong, pronounced "chee gung," to help promote renewal and restoration. Read More

David Weintraub, professor of astronomy at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the upcoming book Is Pluto a Planet?, to be released in the fall by Princeton University Press. In the book, Weintraub argues that Pluto, and many other celestial objects, should be considered planets, contrary to the International Astronomical Union's vote Aug. 24 in Prague. Read More

David Schnaufer, a musician who revived the use of the dulcimer in country music and taught the instrument to many students, died Wednesday of cancer at a local hospice. He was 53. Read More

The National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence at Vanderbilt University will host the internationally known Parkinson's disease expert George W. Paulson, M.D., for a special presentation on Thursday, Sept. 21 Read More

Singer-songwriters John Jarvis, Chuck Cannon and Lari White will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

Hundreds of lives could have been saved from Hurricane Katrina's rampage in Louisiana if the powers-that-be had followed their own crisis plans, believed the hurricane experts and communicated to residents in graphic terms the devastation that was coming their way. Read More

Keeping the lights on around the clock in neonatal intensive care units may interfere with the development of premature babies' biological clocks. Read More

William T. Spitz, who has served as Vanderbilt University's chief investment officer since 1985, will be retiring from his position upon the appointment of his successor, university officials announced today. Read More

Approximately 1,600 Vanderbilt University freshmen will spend one of their first days at their new home away from home helping out the local community. Read More

For the fourth year in a row, Vanderbilt University ranked among the top 20 national universities in the U.S. News & World Report annual Best Colleges rankings. Read More

Approximately 1,600 Vanderbilt University freshmen will descend upon campus Saturday, Aug. 19, when residence halls open for all new students. Read More

Things will start getting a little less comfortable around Vanderbilt University this fall — and that's a good thing. Read More

Walter Sullivan, a Southern literature expert who published criticism, novels, short stories and taught at Vanderbilt University for more than half a century, died of cancer Tuesday at his home. He was 82. Read More

After a summer hiatus, the popular "Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box" series resumes Sept. 6 with a lecture by Vanderbilt Professor Volney Gay on novelist John Updike's use of sexual wisdom in the portrayal of some of his characters. Read More

When a natural disaster hits Texas, P.R. Blackwell has a problem. As director of the TexasView consortium, he needs to quickly get satellite photos of the affected areas to a number of places in support of recovery efforts. But the images are very large and take about 30 minutes each to send over the highest speed network available.Because dozens or more images are needed, just transmitting them can take a day or more. Read More

Students at Wright Middle School in Nashville will join members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee in a live conversation with an astronaut on the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 17. Read More

The fifth annual Vanderbilt Roads Scholars Tour rolls out on Wednesday, Aug. 16, taking Chancellor Gordon Gee and about 50 faculty, senior administrators, staff and student leaders to Middle and East Tennessee. Initiated in 2002, also with a trip to East Tennessee, the annual tour is designed to welcome new faculty and to familiarize them and others in Vanderbilt community with the university's ties and partnerships in the region. Read More

Vanderbilt University's chancellor and nearly 50 faculty and staff will load up on a bus August 16 and hit the road for destinations eastward with the university's fifth annual Roads Scholars Tour. Read More