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Rich Milner, assistant professor of education at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development, has been honored with an Early Career Contribution Award from the American Educational Research Association. The award, presented annually by the association's Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, recognizes a scholar who is within the first decade of his or her career following receipt of the doctoral degree. Read More

A new university-wide initiative is urging tourists and Middle Tennessee residents alike to Visit Vanderbilt. Read More

The first buildings completed as part of the Commons, which will serve as the home for all first-year students at Vanderbilt University beginning in 2008, have been named for a woman who played an integral role in Vanderbilt's very existence and a man whose medical discoveries earned him a Nobel Prize. Read More

Norman Urmy, who over the past 24 years has led Vanderbilt University Hospital and its clinical enterprise successfully through an ever-changing landscape of health care changes, is stepping down. Read More

Vanderbilt University has hired five prominent African American literature scholars in a blockbuster recruiting coup that advances its efforts to be a major player in the study of African American literature and deepen scholarship of Southern and American literature. Read More

Vanderbilt engineers are a key part of the team in an ambitious national effort to advance the field of fluid power, which could lead to reductions in fuel consumption, state-of-the-art rescue robots and new devices to aid people with mobility impairments. Read More

Singer-songwriters Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley and Jason Sellers headline the second Bluebird on the Mountain show of the 2006 season at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 10, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

A team of researchers has achieved a long-sought scientific goal: using laser light to break specific molecular bonds. The process uses laser light, instead of heat, to strip hydrogen atoms from silicon surfaces. This is a key step in the manufacture of computer chips and solar cells, so the achievement could reduce the cost and improve the quality of a wide variety of semiconductor devices. Read More

Your toddler can sing along with The Wiggles and knows Big Bird's face as well as she knows her own, but are those hours spent watching children's videos really helping her learn? New research indicates that parents should choose videos with high interactive content if they want their children to be educated as well as entertained by their time in front of the tube. Read More

President Bush's call for National Guard troops on the border is "a political move that flies in the face of reality," according to Robert Barsky, editor of AmeriQuests and an expert on refugee, border and migration issues. Delivering a nationally televised speech on immigration shows President Bush wants to act, not react, on the debate about cracking down on illegal immigrants, according to presidential expert John Geer. Read More

Camilla P. Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt's Peabody College, has been appointed vice chairwoman of a national panel that will advise President Bush and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings on the teaching and learning of mathematics, Spellings announced May 15. Read More

Vanderbilt's Peabody College of education and human development will present its Distinguished Alumnus Award to Chris Barbic, founder and head of YES College Preparatory Schools, of Houston, Texas, during Commencement, Friday, May 12. Read More

Nine graduates of Vanderbilt University were honored during Commencement Friday with Founder's Medals recognizing them as the leading scholar in one of the university's undergraduate and professional schools.The awarding of Founder's Medals is a more than century-old tradition at Vanderbilt, started by a special endowment in 1877 by university founder Cornelius Vanderbilt. Read More

The May 12 commencement ceremony at Vanderbilt University includes recognition for 15 faculty members who are retiring and will take on the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Read More

Read the text of Chancellor Gordon Gee\'s farewell address to the class of 2006. Read More

Graduating students will receive diplomas at Vanderbilt University's Commencement on Friday, May 12, starting at 9 a.m. on Alumni Lawn, near West End Avenue and 23rd Avenue North. Chancellor Gordon Gee will give the Commencement address to 2,496 graduates. Following Gee's address, graduates from the graduate and professional schools will recess at about 10:15 a.m. for separate hooding and diploma-awarding ceremonies. Undergraduates will stay on Alumni Lawn to receive their degrees. Read More

Read the text of First Lady Laura Bush\'s Senior Class Day address Read More

Dedication to serving others is the key to happiness and 2006 Vanderbilt University graduates should consider beginning by volunteering on the Gulf Coast before starting their careers, First Lady Laura Bush told seniors gathered as part of Senior Day at Vanderbilt University, one day prior to Commencement. Read More

In order to validate, or perhaps disprove, the belief that consuming grapefruit is a sensible weight loss strategy, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have launched a two-year, three-arm randomized controlled study to see just how consumption of grapefruit and grapefruit juice affects appetite, dietary intake, weight loss and body composition. Read More

The Senior Class Day program will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Alumni Lawn with special guest First Lady Laura Bush. Please note the security procedures below. Read More