Releases

Top-five plaintiffs’ law firms achieve the best results for shareholders in mergers and acquisitions’ litigation because they aggressively litigate their cases, instead of adopting more passive strategies favored by less well-known firms. Read More

In the United States, your nationality has some effect on your likelihood to be employed--but being married matters more. For women, it matters a lot more. Read More

Consumers who perceive themselves as loyal customers to a particular company often believe that they have better than average odds to win contests and sweepstakes that are entirely random. Read More

New research shows that women in negotiations face deception more often than men. Read More

As voters prepare to go to the polls Nov. 4, they will be able to take the measure of their congressional representatives’ effectiveness using a new website developed by Vanderbilt University and University of Virginia political scientists. Read More

Support for Common Core has declined among Tennessee teachers over the past year, according to the results of a new Vanderbilt study. Read More

Conditions on Earth in its first 500 million years may have been cool enough to form oceans of water instead of being hellishly hot. Read More

Vanderbilt law professor Chris Slobogin says recent criticism of using scientific risk assessments during sentencing is misguided. Read More

Vanderbilt experts Thomas Schwartz and Mike Newton are available to comment on President Obama's new plans for Iraq and Syria. Read More

The new book 'Law and Neuroscience' is the definitive reference book on the use of neuroscientific evidence in courtrooms. Read More

Two Vanderbilt professors compared salaries and contracts of more than 950 college football coaches to top CEOs. The research found that college football coaches are not overpaid. Read More

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The odds that a person who suffers from severe, nonchronic depression will recover improve substantially when treated by drugs and therapy. Read More

Michael Newton and Thomas Schwartz are available to talk about the current situation in Iraq. Read More

The one-year ban of food imports to Russia from the European Union, the United States, Australia, Canada and Norway violates the Russia's obligations to the World Trade Organization and is designed in part to leverage the American agricultural industry's lobbying power in Congress, Vanderbilt experts say. Read More

A new brain study has identified the brain mechanisms that underlie our judgment of how severely a person who has harmed another should be punished. Read More

Mel Ziegler (Vanderbilt University) When artists Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, now the chair of the Department of Art at Vanderbilt, started out, they sometimes took house-painting jobs to pay the rent. The pair became fascinated by houses, colors, even the names of colors: subjects… Read More

Emily Yount (Vanderbilt) Emily Yount, BS’14, was awarded a Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship in May. The award funds one year of travel to pursue an idea or an issue the student is passionate about in communities around the world. A Cornelius Vanderbilt… Read More

Paul Yoder earned a 5-year $2.1M grant to study siblings of children with ASD. (Photo by Warren Goldswain/123RF.com) Yoder, Warren earn $2.1M grant for autism sibling study Professor of Special Education Paul Yoder and Associate Professor of Pediatrics Zachary Warren received a five-year,… Read More