Releases
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Korean statue gets new home
A rare Korean funerary statue guarding outside Payne Hall has been relocated indoors. Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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Opening Doors, Transforming Lives
Fifty years after its formation, the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's commitment to children remains. Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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From the Dean
"We hold firm our historic concern for individual learners and for underserved populations." Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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Breaking Down Barriers
Roslyn Clark Artis is Florida Memorial’s 13th president—and its first woman president. Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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On the Air
John Wanzung learned the art of selling during his human development classes. Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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Turning Theory into Practice
Alumni created a scholarship in honor of HOD founder Bob Innes. Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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USN marks 100 years
When the Peabody Demonstration School was on the verge of closing, parents put up their own money to keep the doors open. Read MoreDec 22, 2014
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Op-ed: Cuba: notes from a frequent visitor
Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, says that the breakthrough in U.S.-Cuban relations is long overdue, but Cuba must still address its profound social problems. Read MoreDec 22, 2014
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Head Start Begins Here
Peabody psychologist Susan Gray laid the framework for the national Head Start program. Read MoreDec 21, 2014
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Grad student uses video games to teach
Ty Hollett at Studio NPL at the downtown Nashville Public Library. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) Doctoral candidate Ty Hollett has created a pilot program for a new “makerspace” called Studio NPL at the downtown Nashville Public Library. Hollett has been using the video… Read MoreDec 19, 2014
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Op-ed: Rebooting the history of the world
James McFarland, assistant professor of German, Cinema and Media Arts, asks: How does Ridley Scott's strange and violent retelling of "Exodus" fit into our own moral universe? Read MoreDec 18, 2014
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Investors deserve earlier notification of corporate audit fees
A Vanderbilt accounting professor says auditing fees should be released much earlier to help investors. Read MoreDec 18, 2014
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Early human populations may have been shaped by bacteria the body hosts
Vanderbilt mathematician Glenn Webb and NYU microbiologist Martin Blaser propose that the microbes which live on our bodies may have influenced the age structure of human populations in prehistoric times. Read MoreDec 16, 2014
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Op-ed: An online ‘erasure service’ for California minors – but can it work?
Human nature itself can undermine privacy laws that seek to balance the government’s interests in surveillance and protecting the country against terrorism with a citizen’s right to be left alone, argues Lydia Jones, adjunct professor of law. Read MoreDec 16, 2014
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New K-12 curriculum prepares youths for digital world
Peabody's Melissa Gresalfi is co-author of a four-book series that provides a K-12 curricular toolkit for supporting systems thinking in the digital age. Read MoreDec 12, 2014
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Mental Illness is the wrong scapegoat after mass shootings
An extensive new study by two Vanderbilt University researchers challenges common assumptions about gun violence and mental illness that often emerge in the aftermath of mass shootings. Read MoreDec 11, 2014
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Op-ed: Is your religion ready to meet E.T.?
"No matter which (a)theistic background informs your theology, you may have to wrestle with the data astronomers will be bringing to houses of worship in the very near future," writes astronomy professor David Weintraub for The Conversation. Read MoreDec 2, 2014
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Op-ed: Ferguson is not a special case
"Ferguson is not a special case. It’s just evidence that race cleaves our nation, tensions simmer just below the surface, and far too many people who believe in justice are comfortable watching its miscarriage," writes Vanderbilt sociologist Tony Brown for The Conversation. Read MoreDec 2, 2014