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A lack of focus on the part of the NCAA and colleges and universities is to blame for college recruiting problems, Vanderbilt University Vice Chancellor David Williams told a U.S. House subcommittee March 11. Read More

Deep spirituality can encompass all of one's life and overcome social patterns of domination and subordination that cause much misery, believes Emilie M. Townes, who speaks this month at Vanderbilt University. Read More

David Williams, Vanderbilt University vice chancellor for student life and university affairs, general counsel and professor of law, will testify in Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 11, at 10 a.m. at the U.S. House of Representatives hearing "College Recruiting: Are Student Athletes Being Protected?" The hearing is before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Read More

Doctors are expected to have an allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath, principles that can conflict with the goal of making profits. Accountants and lawyers are supposed to be dedicated to the truth, even if it adversely affects their bottom line. Read More

Vanderbilt's impact on the local economy totaled at least $3.7 billion last year, according to a recently completed analysis. The University's economic impact on the Middle Tennessee region in fiscal year 2003 is up from $3.4 billion in fiscal year 2002. Read More

Vanderbilt University senior India McKinney will testify regarding year-round student financial aid before U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Read More

Cultural policy in the United States is set largely-and inadvertently-by federal agencies pursuing other goals. Read More

For every future Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, high-powered magazine editor or trusted television news anchor, there is a humble beginning. For many, that beginning comes in the long hours put in at high school newsrooms and television studios learning the fundamentals of journalism. Read More

Fashion seems to permeate popular culture these days-be it the trend-setting frocks worn by the characters on the popular HBO series Sex and the City, or the many magazine pages devoted to the red carpet fashion of the recent Academy Awards. To an extent, the Vanderbilt campus is no different. Read More

Vanderbilt professors from varied disciplines offer their informed opinions on specific masterpieces in The Phillips Collection during a new luncheon series at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. "Off the Wall: Conversations on The Phillips Collection" happens the second Wednesday of each month starting at noon through May. Read More

Spring break traditionally marks a time for college students to hit the ski slopes or lay on the beach, trading the hectic schedule of life on campus for rest and relaxation. During the week of March 8-12, however, more than 300 students from Nashville's Vanderbilt University will stay busy participating in Alternative Spring Break programs at 27 sites across the United States, Mexico and Canada, including a site in the Denver area. Read More

With more than 20 programs and camps taking place across the Vanderbilt campus this summer, Nashville parents may have a hard time deciding which programs best suit their child's interests, schedule and needs. The University has made things easy by consolidating details of each of its summer programs on a single Web site. Read More

The 2004 Tennessee Statewide Brain Bee Award will be presented to Jingyuan Wu of Oak Ridge High School at Vanderbilt University at noon on Thursday, March 11. Read More

Roy Neel, who served first as senior adviser and then campaign manager for presidential candidate Howard Dean, will give a public lecture on March 3 at 4 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema. Neel's talk is titled "The 2004 Presidential Campaign: The Lessons and Legacy of Howard Dean." Read More

Vanderbilt University will host researchers from several countries to review and discuss the latest research in blindness and its impact on the brain in a workshop March 12-14. The main lectures of the invitational workshop, "Blindness, Brain Plasticity and Spatial Function," are free and open to the community. Read More

Robert Belton, professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School, was honored with the prestigious Z. Alexander Looby Lifetime Achievement Award at the Napier-Looby Bar Foundation's third annual Barristers Banquet and Awards Program on Feb. 19 in Nashville. Read More

In 1997, writer Tony Earley faced his first freshman English class at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt announces four staff members have been named assistant vice chancellors within the University's Division of Public Affairs. Read More

The Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University will open "Feeling Sun," an exhibition of works by local painter Melanie Jackson, Tuesday, March 2, at a reception 4 to 6 p.m. at the center. Read More

Last year, the amount of external funding that Vanderbilt researchers received from peer-reviewed contracts and grants increased by 19 percent to reach an all-time high of $339.4 million. Read More