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The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded Vanderbilt University a grant of $207,000 to support a dissertation seminar in the humanities entitled "The Souls of Brute and Stupid Things." The seminar, which will be led by English Professor and Mellon Chair of Humanities Jonathan Lamb, is in response to a proposal prepared and submitted to the foundation by Lamb. Read More

Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's award-winning legal affairs correspondent, will talk about "The Supreme Court and its Impact on You" Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Vine Hill Community Clinic, operated by the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing's University Community Health Services, is offering flu shots and FluMist to the general public starting Oct. 24. Read More

Nashville residents tired of seeing abandoned vehicles, overgrown lots and dilapidated housing in their neighborhoods will have an opportunity to learn how to take action to clean up these eyesores Tuesday, Oct. 25 at a special presentation on Metro Codes. Read More

The Bluebird on the Mountain concert series will conclude its successful second year at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory with a show featuring Tim Nichols, Rivers Rutherford and Rebecca Lynn Howard. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is recruiting families of children with and without autism to participate in a study of the relationship between sleep patterns and behavior in children with autism. Read More

Getting Out, the story of a woman trying to move on with her life after prison, debuts Nov. 4 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. The play was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. Read More

What difference does it make if a prosecutor describes a defendant as a "murderer" or as "someone who commits murder?" In some cases, those few words could mean the difference between life and death. Read More

Take an LED that produces intense, blue light. Coat it with a thin layer of special microscopic beads called quantum dots. And you have what could become the successor to the venerable light bulb. Read More

Vanderbilt University is the first customer of a new music downloading service that will offer college students and others in the university community downloads of music by independent and unsigned artists at a low subscription fee for unlimited use. Read More

In his 22 years working as a Pediatric Emergency Physician, Tom Abramo, M.D., the new Director of Emergency Medicine for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital, has seen lots of bags of X-rayed Halloween candy, and he has seen where the danger of Halloween lies: not in the candy. Read More

Mike Newton, acting associate clinical professor of law at Vanderbilt University, is an expert on the Iraqi Special Tribunal and international criminal law. He helped establish the Iraqi Special Tribunal and led the training in international criminal law for its judges, including two sessions in Baghdad. He was interviewed on Oct. 11 by the BBC about the upcoming trial of Saddam Hussein for the U.K.'s longest running legal weekly program, "Law in Action." Read More

The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, drawn from the actual transcripts of the 1925 Dayton, Tenn., trial of a public school teacher accused of teaching evolution, will be performed as part of the Great Performances at Vanderbilt series at 8 p.m. on Oct. 19 and 20. The national tour production stars Ed Asner, John de Lancie and Alley Mills. Read More

Traffic will be heavier than usual around the Vanderbilt University campus Oct. 14 and 15 due to activities surrounding Homecoming/Reunion Weekend. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development and the Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research have been awarded a $980,922 grant from the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Initiative to support postdoctoral training in understanding and treating developmental disabilities. The funds will support four postdoctoral trainees for five years. Read More

Thomas R. Harris, Vanderbilt chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department and Orrin H. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, has received a distinguished service award from the major scientific and professional society in the field of biomedical engineering. Read More

Howard University's Robert Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., is returning to Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a guest speaker for the Fourth Annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture on Diversity in Medical Education. Read More

Howard University‘s Robert Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., is returning to Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a guest speaker for the Fourth Annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture on Diversity in Medical Education. Read More

More than 100 Vanderbilt University students will spend their fall break Oct. 22-25 helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi reclaim some semblance of a normal life. Read More

Baseball America ranked Vanderbilt's 2005 recruiting class as the best in the country, the publication released Oct. 12. Read More