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The lives and accomplishments of black women will be celebrated in March and April with a documentary film series at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University. Read More

College students, campus administrators and non-profit professionals from across the country will converge at Vanderbilt University March 3-5 for discussions, networking and workshops on how to improve the quality of life on their campuses and in their communities through community service, activism and socially responsible work. Read More

Vanderbilt University encourages active journalists to apply to attend its 2007 media fellowship, "Meth Rescue: Meth's Effects on Children, Families and the Foster Care System," April 24-27, 2007, in Nashville, Tenn. Read More

It's time to rethink common assumptions about the nature of God which support the subjugation of women and non-whites, believes a leading feminist theologian set to lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

While spring break is traditionally a time set aside for rest and relaxation, more than 370 Vanderbilt University students will trade academic work for community during the university's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) Program March 6-10. The students will travel to 32 volunteer sites across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador and Guatemala as they engage in community service and learn about the problems faced by members of communities with whom they otherwise may have had little or no direct contact. Read More

It is election time again. Governor Bredesen and those seeking to replace him have begun to campaign. Seats in both houses of the General Assembly also are up for grabs. No issue is as important as education for Tennessee's long-run well being. Yet, it is difficult to elbow other urgencies aside and place our schools and colleges front and center. This should change. Read More

Educators and researchers have reacted with both enthusiasm and skepticism to President Bush's State of the Union call to improve America's competitiveness in math and science. Vanderbilt education and science experts are available to discuss what it will take to stop the United States' slide towards scientific and mathematic irrelevancy on the global stage. Read More

Series of events during March aimed at teaching the public about the importance of brain research to understanding, treating, and ultimately curing brain-related diseases. Events are open to the public and are sponsored by the Vanderbilt Brain Institute (936-2637, brain.institute@vanderbilt.edu, http://braininstitute.vanderbilt.edu). Read More

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with both genetic and environmental risk factors that affects the lives of thousands of children and adults and their families. Catherine Lord, Ph.D., professor of psychology and psychiatry and director of the University of Michigan Autism and Communication Disorders Center, will be giving a lecture on autism and the importance of early diagnosis as part of Vanderbilt University's Brain Awareness Month. Read More

A Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student has documented a lack of consensus among Tennessee doctors about how to treat children who may have been exposed to the illicit drug methamphetamine and its harmful manufacturing process. Read More

Charles Darwin would undoubtedly be both pleased and chagrined. Read More

Hailed as one of the great voices in contemporary literature, Maya Angelou has worn many hats — poet, bestselling author, actress, historian, playwright, civil rights activist, producer and director — and she will share her experiences Monday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m. at a public lecture at Vanderbilt University's Memorial Gym. Read More

Catholic theologian James Alison, who has been called "one of today's most lucid and exciting writers on our relationship with the divine," will deliver two lectures at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 23, and Friday, Feb. 24. Read More

Estelle Condra will weave inspirational and humorousstories about her personal challenges with a hereditary eye disease when she performs Blind People Shouldn't Vacuum Feb. 26 at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music. The three-act show, which will be in the Turner Recital Hall, is a benefit for the Ada Belle Stapleton/Blanche Henry Weaver Scholarship Fund at Vanderbilt. Read More

In a series of challenging but fun competitions, ranging from building a tower out of marshmallows and spaghetti straws to the annual egg drop event, the engineering students at Vanderbilt University will display their ingenuity and inventiveness to celebrate National Engineers Week February 20-25. Read More

Can the high doses of chemotherapy and radiation that young cancer patients receive cause inherited health problems for their children? Read More

Nations have attacked, conquered and occupied other nations throughout history. Read More

An economic model is the best way to understand the rise and fall of religions, said sociologist Rodney Stark in the first of four lectures at Vanderbilt University as the first Templeton Research Fellow. Read More

Steven Hager, former editor-in-chief of High Times magazine, and Robert Stutman, a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will discuss the controversial issues surrounding legalizing marijuana, Monday, Feb. 20, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The genetics of brain development, and the impact of mutations that can occur during development, will be the topic of a lecture by Christopher Walsh, Bullard Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development on Thursday, Feb. 16, at 4:10 p.m. His lecture is titled "Human Mental Retardation: Genes that Control the Shape and Size of the Human Brain." Read More