Releases

A new genetic model for a motor disorder that confines an estimated 10,000 people in the United States to walkers and wheelchairs indicates that instability in the microscopic scaffolding within a key set of nerve cells is the cause of this devastating disability. Read More

A former dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School who played a role in one of the most controversial episodes in the University's history died July 6 in Houston. The Rev. J. Robert Nelson, 83, was at Vanderbilt from 1957 to 1960. Read More

Vanderbilt University education professor Ellen Goldring will testify in Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 15, at 10 a.m. EDT at the U.S. Senate hearing "Pell Grants for Kids." Read More

A team of biologists has discovered the structure and genetic sequence of the hormone that makes insects develop their hard outer shells and allows them to spread their wings. The findings answer more than 40 years of questions about insect development. Read More

The evidence is growing: chronic, high-dose consumption of the arthritis pain reliever Vioxx can raise blood pressure and the risk of serious heart problems. Read More

According to a press release issued July 8 by the NCAA Women's Basketball Selection Committee, Vanderbilt University's Memorial Gymnasium (14,168) has been selected as one of eight pre-determined sites for the first and second rounds of the 2006 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship. Read More

Vanderbilt Men's Basketball Head Coach Kevin Stallings has issued a statement regarding the events of the previous 10 days. Read More

After a week of uncertainty, Vanderbilt rising senior Josie Hahn is officially entered in the United States Track and Field Olympic Trials. Olympic Trials officials informed Hahn and coach Lori Shepard late Wednesday that the Vanderbilt standout would be included in the 24-woman heptathlon field. Read More

Explorers Unlimited, a four-week academic camp for adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome, is being held at the University School of Nashville, July 6-30. Read More

In the last few decades, scientists have discovered that there is a lot more to the universe than meets the eye: The cosmos appears to be filled with not just one, but two invisible constituents-dark matter and dark energy-whose existence has been proposed based solely on their gravitational effects on ordinary matter and energ Read More

Starting June 28, a small portion of 25th Avenue South, a major road that cuts through the Vanderbilt campus from West End to Blakemore Avenue, will be closed for a little more than a week. The closure is necessary to install a sewer line for Vanderbilt's new Student Life Center. Read More

The Vanderbilt School of Engineering will lead a new $2.4 million multi-institutional nanotechnology program funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop radically improved electronics, sensors, energy-conversion devices and other critical defense systems. Read More

Most of our previous American presidents have written self-serving, bloated and rather dull autobiographies, according to Vanderbilt University presidential scholar Erwin Hargrove. He cites those of Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan as examples of not terribly exciting presidential memoirs. While some reviewers have already made similar comments about My Life, Hargrove anticipates that Clinton's psychological analysis of his personal problems should make the book a more interesting read. Read More

Tennessee teachers and students will work with astronauts, astronomers and other leading space explorers at an interactive summer institute hosted by Dyer Observatory the week of June 21. Read More

Tim Corbin announced his decision to remain the head baseball coach at Vanderbilt during a press conference at Hawkins Field on June 18. Corbin was joined by Chancellor Gordon Gee and Vice Chancellor David Williams II. Read More

A statewide half-day conference on improving services for people with a dual diagnosis of developmental disability and mental illness will be held Wednesday, June 30, at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. The conference is designed for residential service providers, psychiatrists, physicians and behavior analysts who work with or plan to work with individuals with these dual diagnoses. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Music on the Mountain concert series takes a turn toward songwriting--Bluebird CafÈ style--on Saturday, June 26. Read More

For nearly two decades, Vanderbilt University archaeologist Arthur Demarest has explored the rainforests of Guatemala for clues to the ancient Mayas. Along the way, he has formed an alliance with the descendants of that once-powerful civilization to not only uncover but also preserve their proud heritage. That partnership paid off earlier this month with the conviction and sentencing of a gang of looters. Read More

Seeing is believing, even when what we see is ambiguous or misleading. New Vanderbilt research has found that the brain continues to accept ambiguous visual information about an object in motion even when it conflicts with more reliable information that we can touch. Read More

Corey Slovis, M.D., chairman of the department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, gives tips on how to avoid heat related illnesses. Read More