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When NBC announced plans to cancel the original "Star Trek" series in 1968, fans responded with a massive letter-writing campaign that won the program an additional season. But this time, Trekkies responded with something networks understand better ó cash. Read More

Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College of education and human development presented its Distinguished Alumnus Award to Arthur Jerry Benson, dean of James Madison University‘s College of Integrated Science and Technology (CISAT), during commencement, Friday, May 13. Read More

The leading graduates in each of Vanderbilt‘s nine undergraduate and professional schools were recognized by Chancellor Gordon Gee with Founder‘s Medals during the university‘s commencement exercises May 13. Read More

Three graduates from Vanderbilt‘s School of Nursing overcame tough odds to earn their degrees. They are available to share their stories as Vanderbilt observes commencement exercises May 13. Read More

Graduating students will receive diplomas at Vanderbilt University‘s commencement on Friday, May 13, starting at 9 a.m. on Alumni Lawn, near West End Avenue and 23rd Avenue North. Chancellor Gordon Gee will give the commencement address to 2,468 graduates. Following Gee‘s address, graduates from the graduate and professional schools will recess at about 10:15 a.m. for separate hooding and diploma-awarding ceremonies. Undergraduates will stay on Alumni Lawn to receive their degrees. The ceremony on Alumni Lawn will be cybercast live starting at 9 a.m. with a link at http://www.vanderbilt.edu. A mult box will be available stage left. Read More

Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee has been named by NCAA President Myles Brand to a new presidential task force to study the future of college sports. NCAA officials characterize the goal of the task force over the next 18 to 24 months as shaping "the next phase in reform of intercollegiate athletics." Read More

A member of the hit country band Little Texas aims to combine his loves of music and science to promote science education after graduating with a master‘s degree in Communication of Science, Engineering and Technology from Vanderbilt University. Read More

A group of current and former foster youth has issued a report they hope will give children in foster care and concerned community members the tools they need to hold juvenile judges and attorneys accountable for protecting the safety and rights of children who have been abused or neglected. Read More

Vanderbilt University‘s School of Engineering has been selected to lead a new research program that focuses on the impact of radiation on continually shrinking electronic devices and new microelectronic materials ñ both in space and on the ground. Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn.óImogene Forte, who devoted her career to improving education as a teacher, school administrator and successful businesswoman, died May 8. She was 79. Read More

William G. Christie, Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Finance and professor of law at Vanderbilt University, has been named executive editor of Financial Management, the flagship journal of the Financial Management Association (FMA) and a leading scholarly publication, effective January 2006. Read More

Political economist Daron Acemoglu will discuss "Rethinking the Wealth of Nations" at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, May 18. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is the 29th David Steine Memorial Seminar. Read More

Is there a copy of you reading this announcement? A person who is not only you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? If the theory of parallel universes is correct, then each of us has dozens of such alter egos. Read More

The complex issues of attachment between children and parents will be the topic of an all-day research conference at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Thursday, May 19. Read More

Vanderbilt University special education researchers Steve Graham and Karen Harris were recently awarded the 2005 Council for Exceptional Children Special Education Research Award at that organization‘s national convention April 6-9 in Baltimore, Md. Read More

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras will deliver the keynote address to the graduating class of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management at commencement exercises on May 13. The separate Owen ceremony immediately follows the university‘s commencement program. Read More

Though university classes have wrapped for the summer, Vanderbilt junior Star Wallin won‘t be taking a hard-earned break. She will spend her vacation at separate events honoring the nation‘s Truman and Udall scholars, as well as working at the Jane Goodall Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read More

As the science that could lead to designer babies advances, and as machines take on more human-like capabilities, what once was considered science fiction is becoming reality for contemporary scientists and technologists, with more in common than generally assumed. Read More

The Tennessee Court of Appeals handed down a ruling in the United Daughters of the Confederacy‘s lawsuit regarding the inscription on Confederate Memorial Hall, overturning a Davidson County chancellor‘s 2003 ruling in Vanderbilt‘s favor. Read More

Articles by three Vanderbilt University Law School professors have been selected among the "Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2004" by Corporate Practice Commentator, a quarterly journal that reprints the year‘s top scholarly articles in the field of corporate and securities law. Read More