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Ruth Rogaski also honored with Berkshire Conference First Book Prize. Read More

An international team of biomedical engineers has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to grow healthy new bone reliably in one part of the body and use it to repair damaged bone at a different location. Read More

Rift within the AFL-CIO about class, not power: Dan Cornfield, Vanderbilt University labor expert and professor of sociology, says the labor unions‘ split is not a power grab, but a response to the AFL-CIO‘s not giving priority to recruiting low-wage workers. He says the dissident unions tend to organize low-wage service and construction workers — who are also disproportionately women, ethnic-racial minorities and immigrants Read More

Vanderbilt‘s emergency physicians are seeing an increase in the number of heat-related emergencies and are urging the public to take precautions in the extreme heat. Read More

Responding to marketplace demand for health care leaders with advanced and specialized education, the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has announced a health care MBA program that will have its students working in close collaboration with professionals at the top-ranked Vanderbilt University Medical Center and with some of the country‘s most innovative health care companies. Read More

Award-winning novelist and short story writer Nancy Reisman will teach at Vanderbilt University beginning this fall, as a master‘s program in creative writing begins to take shape at the university. Read More

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center director Pat Levitt has been awarded the 2005 Research Champion Award by the Autism Society of America (ASA). Read More

Thomas F. Catron, associate professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt Medical Center, has been named by Governor Phil Bredesen as the director of the Governor‘s Office of Children‘s Care Coordination. Read More

Attorney Bethany Jackson has been hired as assistant director of the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University, an interdisciplinary research center devoted to improving life in the Americas. Read More

Ninety students, faculty and interns studying or working in London this summer were accounted for and unharmed on Thursday after attacks on the city‘s public transportation system. Read More

Vanderbilt professors Suzanna Sherry and Stefanie Lindquist are available to discuss the effects of Sandra Day O‘Connor‘s announced retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court. Read More

Unlike the spectacular movie version, real-life sun storms can‘t turn ordinary astronauts into the Fantastic Four. But they can and occasionally do incapacitate expensive and vitally important space systems, like satellites and spacecraft. Read More

The Vanderbilt Learning Sciences Institute has been awarded a prestigious $1.5 million, three-year grant from The Wallace Foundation to develop a tool to assess the performance of education leaders in the nation‘s K-12 public schools. Read More

NASA will be setting off fireworks of a different kind this July 4, when it plans to slam an 820-pound projectile into a 10-mile wide rocky, icy comet. Vanderbilt University‘s Dyer Observatory will provide live streaming images of the impact from the Astronomical League‘s International Space Station Amateur Telescope near Tuscon, Ariz., and will provide live online commentary by Vanderbilt physicist Robert O‘Dell, former chief scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope. Read More

Three songwriters who‘ve penned hits for Tim McGraw, Jamie O‘Neal, Martina McBride and others will perform on Saturday, July 16, at the scenic grounds of Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory overlooking Nashville. Read More

Pre-kindergarten teachers from across Tennessee will spend June 26-July 1 on the campus of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University learning the latest techniques to help children benefit as much as possible from pre-kindergarten. Read More

The great outdoors will keep children busy and active this season, but experts at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt say parents would be wise to use a little precaution before play time to avoid insect-borne illnesses, typically caused by insect bites or stings. Read More

This afternoon at approximately 4 p.m. LifeFlight will touch down outside the Country Music Hall of Fame for part of an evening gala to be held at the museum celebrating LifeFlight‘s 20 years of service to Middle Tennessee. Read More

Proposed new rules designed to bring the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in line with President Bush‘s No Child Left Behind education initiative will be discussed Friday, June 17, during public meetings at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center will launch a new research institute, jump-started with a $10 million gift from West Tennessee businessman Jim Ayers, to develop techniques to detect cancers at their earliest, most curable stages, Vanderbilt officials announced today. Read More