Releases

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

A statewide training conference on improving service delivery for people with both developmental disabilities and mental illness will be held Wednesday, June 22, at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The conference is designed for residential service providers, psychiatrists, physicians, behavior analysts, family members and advocates who work with or plan to work with individuals with a dual diagnosis of developmental disabilities and mental illness. Read More

The undergraduate experience at Vanderbilt University will undergo its most significant transformation in a generation as construction begins on College Halls at Vanderbilt, a residential college system designed to create the most vibrant living and learning environment in higher education. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development will be the beneficiary of this year‘s annual Waddell & Reed Financial Services Charity Golf Tournament on June 17. This will be the third year for Waddell & Reed to support the Kennedy Center in its efforts to raise awareness. The event will take place at the Vanderbilt Legends Golf Club in Franklin. Read More

Three-fourths of the original Women in the Round lineup at the Bluebird CafÈ will perform at the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series. Read More

About one-fourth of infants who are violently shaken by an abuser will die from brain damage. Read More

Patricia Rodier, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at they University of Rochester, will speak on how autism develops. The talk will be held at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development on Monday, June 6, at 4 p.m. Read More

Mark D. Does, Vanderbilt assistant professor of biomedical engineering and assistant professor of radiology and radiological sciences, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) award. Read More

Ari Dubin, who won the Ally of the Year award from the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee for coordinating the Jewish response to a 2004 Palestinian Solidarity Movement conference at Duke University, will join Vanderbilt University as executive director of the Vanderbilt Hillel. Read More

Reaching out to children with autism and their families is what the Dan Marino Foundation is all about. The foundation recently expanded its impact through a gift of $100,000 to the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. The gift, the first major donation the foundation has made outside of its home base of South Florida, will create Dan Marino Foundation Fellowships and Dan Marino Foundation Discovery Grants and will support the center‘s outreach programs. Read More

A democracy can survive with or without a filibuster. It cannot, however, long survive without respect for the rule of law at the top levels of government. Yet we hear much about whether the filibuster is good practice, and almost nothing about the subversive nature of the proposal to end it. Citizens of all parties should be banding together to resist the way in which the Senate leadership plans to bring about the change they want, at the expense of the rule of law. Read More