Releases

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

Communicating with family and friends all over the country has just gone high tech at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. Read More

Residents in Maury County, including the cities of Columbia, Mount Pleasant and surrounding counties, will soon have faster access to the region's only Level-1 trauma center thanks to the decision by Vanderbilt University Medical Center to station an air ambulance helicopter at the Maury County Airport. Read More

The Children's Cello Choir of Nashville at the Blair School of Music will tour Germany this month, performing two concerts at Magdeburg, sister city of Nashville. Read More

Vanderbilt University is seeking participants for the first phase of a study to learn more about brain activity in children with math or reading disabilities. The ultimate goal of the study, "Remediating Students' Mathematics Disabilities," is to overcome math disability and to examine how brain functioning changes with remediation. Read More

John Seigenthaler, eminent journalist, author, civil rights leader and founder of the First Amendment Center, has announced that he will donate his papers to Vanderbilt University Library's special collections department. Read More

Five Commodore baseball players were drafted on the first day of the Major League Baseball Draft highlighted by Jeremy Sowers #6 overall pick by the Cleveland Indians. Cesar Nicolas and Ryan Klosterman were back-to-back picks in the fifth round, while Antoan Richardson was a 13th round selection and Jeff Sues a 14th round selection. Read More

Aaron Garza knocked in three runs and Commodores starter Matt Buschmann allowed only five hits and no earned runs as Vanderbilt defeated host Virginia, 7-3, Sunday at Davenport Field in front of a partisan sellout crowd of 2,530. The win marks the first time in school history the Commodores have advanced to the NCAA Tournament Super Regional. Read More

Vanderbilt fans will have five opportunities this month to meet Football Coach Bobby Johnson and several of the team's preseason All-SEC candidates while having a chance to win signed jerseys and other memorabilia as part of Commodores in the Community, an awareness program announced by the department today. Read More

The Vanderbilt Commodores received an at-large bid to the NCAA Baseball Tournament today for the first time since 1980. This is the fourth appearance in the NCAA Tournament for the Commodores. Vanderbilt is coming off a runnerup finish in the Southeastern Conference Tournament with a 3-2 loss to South Carolina. Read More

The 2004 KIDS COUNT Data Book, which evaluates state-by-state progress in child well-being, will be released nationally on Thursday, and Tennessee's rankings will be discussed during a news conference that will feature members of the Tennessee Youth Advisory Council. Read More

Steven J. Tepper will join the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University this fall as associate director, announced Bill Ivey, director of the center. Read More

The family of Tabitha Tuders will dedicate scholarships in Tabitha's name to the Kennedy Center Reading Clinic Tuesday, June 1, at 3 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Family Outreach Center. Tabitha, 13, was abducted in April 2003 outside her Nashville home. Friends of the Tuders family established the scholarship fund in March 2004 in honor of Tabitha and her love of reading. Read More

Kent D. Syverud, dean and Garner Anthony Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, joined legal educators representing more than 45 countries and all of the world's legal systems today to hammer out a "global curriculum" for law schools. Read More

The White House Press Office is approving and providing all press credentials for President George Bush's visit to Vanderbilt University Medical Center this Thursday afternoon. Read More

In the morning hours of June 8, visitors to Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory will witness an astronomical event that no living person has ever seen. Venus-the Earth's sister planet-will move directly between the Earth and the sun. The public is invited to view this rare event during a live broadcast at the observatory. Read More

William Christie, who has served as the dean of Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management since 2000, will step down from his position on June 1, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nicholas Zeppos announced. Following a planned research leave, Christie will return to the faculty as the Frances Hampton Currey Chair in Finance. Read More