Releases

Joe Blackburn, a leading researcher in operations management and longtime member of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management faculty, has been named senior associate dean. Read More

Christian women are looking to the Virgin Mary for inspiration as they move to expand their leadership within the church, says a Vanderbilt University theologian who has organized a Mary conference on April 13 and 14. Read More

The role of religion in ecology will be explored by a leading proponent of ecofeminism during a lecture on Thursday, April 7, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

NO!, a documentary about rape in the African-American community, will be screened Tuesday, April 5, at Vanderbilt University, followed by a discussion led by filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons. Read More

Dr. Irwin B. Eskind, a retired Nashville physician and philanthropist and a strong supporter of Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine for more than a half century, died March 28 at his home in Nashville. He was 80. Read More

Interfaith activist and filmmaker Ruth Broyde-Sharone will bring her most recent documentary, God and Allah Need to Talk — a Film for Healing and Reconciliation, to Vanderbilt University Tuesday, April 5. Read More

Lawrence Small will discuss his vision for the Smithsonian Institution during a lecture titled "A 21st Century Smithsonian" April 5 at Vanderbilt. Read More

Fourteen student actors will portray 50 characters in the Vanderbilt University Theatre production of Steven Dietz‘s "Handing Down the Names," which debuts Friday, April 8. Read More

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that profoundly affects the lives of thousands of children and adults and their families. Susan Folstein, a distinguished psychiatrist and geneticist known for her research on autism, will speak at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development on Thursday, March 31, at 4 p.m. Read More

Tom Wolfe, author of the critically acclaimed works "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff," will speak at Vanderbilt University on Monday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Art created by DeLoss McGraw and inspired by poems by Robert Penn Warren will be exhibited at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in April. McGraw will discuss his work on Tuesday, April 5. Read More

Vanderbilt will celebrate the grand opening of its new Student Life Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house Wednesday, March 30, followed by a series of events through April 2. Read More

Vanderbilt‘s second round contest at Memorial Gymnasium Monday, March 21 will start at 8 p.m. CT and will be televised by ESPN. The Commodores will face the winner of the Western Kentucky-Wichita State match-up to take place on Saturday. Read More

A union representing about 570 Vanderbilt University employees has voted overwhelmingly to accept a new two-year contract with the university. Read More

Al Sharpton, Ann Coulter and Howard Dean will participate in question-and-answer sessions with the press before their sold-out lectures March 21-22. Read More

Akbar Ahmed, described by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as the world‘s leading authority on contemporary Islam, will speak at Vanderbilt University on Monday, March 28. Read More

Vanderbilt University will become the center of an ongoing conversation about the friction and connections between science and religion with the help of a grant from the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science in Philadelphia. Read More

When you grab a piece of food and put it in your mouth, when you smile in response to the smile of a passerby or squint and grimace in anger, the complex pattern of movements that you make may be hard-wired into your brain, according to Vanderbilt researchers writing this week in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition." Read More

The first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi, will speak at Vanderbilt University‘s Senior Class Day on Thursday, May 12, at 10 a.m. on Alumni Lawn. Read More

Laws and public policy will often miss their mark until they incorporate an understanding of why, biologically, humans behave as they do, scholars from Vanderbilt and Yale universities argue in the March issue of Columbia Law Review. Read More