Releases

Finding resolution to long-standing and seemingly unbridgeable conflicts is the subject of a Sept. 21 forum at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

Keeping stockholders satisfied while maintaining a commitment to artistry is the knotty problem facing recording industry executives in the current merger-and-acquisitions business climate. Read More

Psychologists often conclude from research subjects' behavior in psychological experiments that humans are irrational. New research indicates that humans are in fact quite rational; they just do not trust what people in lab coats tell them. The research suggests that by taking doubt into account, psychologists have the opportunity to strengthen the predictive power of many commonly used models and potentially better understand human behavior. Read More

Vanderbilt University announced today it has crossed the $1 billion mark in gifts and pledges in its multi-year "Shape the Future" campaign and detailed ways in which funds have already been put to use to transform the university and the people it serves. Read More

A Greek tragedy about the sacrifice of an innocent for the sake of winning a war is the first show of the 2004-05 season of Vanderbilt University's Department of Theatre. Read More

The art and science of being an effective preacher will be examined at a community breakfast sponsored by Vanderbilt University Divinity School and featuring new homiletics professor Brad Braxton. Read More

Vanderbilt University will be the home of the first federally funded national center to take a wide-ranging look at school choice ñ from its impact on student achievement and instructional quality to whether it meets the needs of special education and disabled students and its effects across racial and class lines. Read More

Five Medical Center employees arrived in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 8, trained and ready to help those dealing with the devastating effects of Hurricane Frances, which has pounded the state in recent days. Read More

You need to understand something about the slave trade of Herman Melville's time to fully grasp his Moby Dick or Benito Cereno. Familiarity with voodoo culture can illuminate the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Read More

For a Saturday night outing in Nashville, it's hard to do better than a beautiful mountaintop setting, world-class talent and a bargain price for carpoolers. Read More

Presidential elections, modern poetry and health care are among the wide-ranging non-credit classes available to the public during the fall term of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt. Read More

Former Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor will discuss jobs, the U.S. standard of living and future trade policies when he delivers the annual McGee Lecture at Vanderbilt on Sept. 16. The lecture, titled "Politics and Trade Agreements," is free and open to the public. Read More

Does God exist? Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? What is happiness, and how do we find meaning and purpose in our lives? Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Family Outreach Center will host an organizational meeting for a series of workshops for area college students and young adults who have a brother or sister with special needs, mental health issues or chronic illness on Tuesday, Sept. 7, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Read More

The latest edition of the Middle Tennessee Community Services Directory, sponsored by the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, is now available on the Web and also in print. The directory, the only comprehensive listing of nonprofits and social services throughout Middle Tennessee, is now under the stewardship of the Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. Read More

Chris Guthrie has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

The lack of a class on the history of country music would not be notable at most classical music schools at major universities. Read More

An increase in funding of nearly 100 percent in four years has put Vanderbilt among the top 25 U.S. universities for the first time in recent history in terms of the amount of federally supported research and development projects that it conducts. Read More

Musicians want to have it; religions try to save them. Read More

Richard Woodcock, a world-renowned researcher of learning ability assessment, will present a lecture on historical advances in cognitive assessment on Thursday, Sept. 9, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. The lecture will take place in Room 241 of the Kennedy Center/MRL Building and is free and open to the public. Read More