Releases

A new DVD series for toddlers, "Sesame Beginnings," released this week by the "Sesame Street" franchise has stirred continuing controversy about whether children under 2 should watch television. Vanderbilt child development expert Georgene Troseth has found that it's parental interactionónot videosóthat helps very young children learn. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's LifeFlight air ambulance program has become the first program in Tennessee to receive accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS). Read More

Vanderbilt's Peabody College of education and human development was ranked 5th in the nation for the second consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report in its annual ranking of the leading graduate and professional schools. Peabody's Special Education program was ranked first in the nation for the fourth straight year, and, overall, the school saw seven of its programs ranked in the top 10. Read More

Last year, the amount of external funding that Vanderbilt University researchers received from peer-reviewed contracts and grants increased by 15 percent to reach an all-time high of $444 million. Read More

Vanderbilt University students won top honors in the Southeast Journalism Conference's (SEJC) Best in the South contest. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is hosting a conference for family members, advocates, school personnel and related service providers entitled "Down Syndrome and Autism: Improving the Supports and Service for Individuals with Co-Occurring Conditions." Read More

Throughout the spring semester, 12 talented Vanderbilt University students and 13 local professional artists have been hard at work on an exciting exhibition. EVOKE/INVOKE/PROVOKE: A Multimedia Project of Discovery premieres from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 21, and will run through Saturday, May 13, at the Cohen Building on the Peabody College campus at Vanderbilt. Read More

Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University, will speak on "The Paradox of Design: Success through Failure" on Wednesday, April 12, at Vanderbilt University in the final presentation of the 2005-06 Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

Performers will write fresh material for every performance and the audience will help select what is presented during the run of dramablog: An Exploration of the Political and the Personal, the last show of the season by the Vanderbilt Department of Theatre. Read More

Juan Melendez spent 17 years, eight months and one day on Florida's death row for a crime he did not commit. He will share his story Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m. in Vanderbilt University's Sarratt Cinema. Read More

Tony Bland, a 15-year veteran of Vanderbilt's LifeFlight, has been named "EMT of the Year" by the Tennessee Ambulance Service Association. Read More

U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., church leaders, Vanderbilt scholars and others will discuss the role of the black church in public policy activism during a three-day conference sponsored by the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

Researchers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center are studying whether exercise can help curb memory and cognitive problems experienced by many cancer survivors following chemotherapy. Read More

"Sexuality, Spirituality and Religion: What's the Connection?" is the topic of the Rev. Debra W. Haffner's talk presented as Vanderbilt University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's annual lecture on Tuesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt Information Technology Services is now offering expanded streaming media services to share interesting lectures, sporting events, ceremonies and more with viewers around the world. Read More

Once a week, the Writing about Religion class meets. Ray Waddle, a Vanderbilt University adjunct professor and former religion editor at The Tennessean, leads the give-and-take. In many ways, it's a typical class at Vanderbilt Divinity School — except that the meeting isn't actually at Vanderbilt's scenic midtown campus. And some of the students are older and more world weary than usual. Read More

Public tickets for Vanderbilt University's annual Impact Symposium go on sale today and are available through Ticketmaster. Former U.S. senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards and conservative journalist Peter Brimelow, known for his controversial writings on immigration policy, are the event's featured speakers. Read More

A disturbing nationwide trend has been documented by a researcher at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Pity the brown dwarf. It's too large to be a planet, but too small to be a star. Although these "failed stars" are neither fish nor fowl, they play an important role in the cosmic scheme of things. Many astronomers think that they may actually be the most common product of the stellar formation process. So information about brown dwarfs can provide valuable new insights into the dynamic processes that produce stars out of collapsing whirlpools of interstellar dust and gas. Read More

Former U.S. senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards and conservative journalist Peter Brimelow, known for his controversial writings on immigration policy, will deliver public lectures at Vanderbilt University March 20-21 as part of the university's annual Impact Symposium. Read More