Society And Culture
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Why learning guitar is different from learning other instruments
Through a set of experiments, Gordon Logan, Nashville musician Jerry Kimbrough and Matthew Crump (now of Brooklyn College-CUNY) have illustrated that guitarists – and players of other related instruments like mandolin, banjo and bass – tend to acquire their skills differently than most other musicians. Read MoreNov 13, 2012
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Eight VU mathematicians elected to American Mathematical Society
Eight Vanderbilt mathematicians have been named as members of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Read MoreNov 9, 2012
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Pawn shops offer cash when others turn people away
Perhaps pulled more into mainstream consciousness by television shows such as “Hard Core Pawn” and “Pawn Stars,” pawn shops have several advantages over the payday loan operations that have become the most visible source of loans for those with poor credit ratings. Read MoreOct 26, 2012
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Blair grad Angela Mace solves a musical mystery
Duke University announced that Blair alumna Angela Mace, now pursuing her Ph.D. in musicology at Duke under the advisement of R. Larry Todd, has proved the authorship of a mystery “lost sonata.” The piece has often been attributed to 19th-century composer Felix Mendelssohn, although scholars have suspected the piece was actually written by his sister, Fanny Hensel. Read MoreOct 22, 2012
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Listen: Vanderbilt Libraries’ exhibit spotlights beloved entertainers
“Stage & Screen: The Star Quality of Vanderbilt’s Performing Arts Collections,” now open at Vanderbilt University’s renovated Central Library and Special Collections, invites viewers to step “behind the curtain” of some of the world’s most memorable productions. Read MoreSep 13, 2012
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Vanderbilt MFA Program in Creative Writing ranked among top 10
Vanderbilt’s MFA Program in Creative Writing has been ranked among the top 10 programs in the country in a survey conducted by "Poets & Writers" magazine and reported in the September/October issue. Read MoreSep 11, 2012
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Songwriter Odie Blackmon shows Nashville hopefuls the Music Row ropes
A Nashville songwriter responsible for No. 1 records by George Strait, Lee Ann Womack and Gary Allan is showing aspiring songwriters the Music Row ropes in a class at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreAug 9, 2012
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Student Skull Sessions in Peru
Vanderbilt archaeologist Tiffiny Tung leads students to Peru where they assist in groundbreaking research into the Wari culture, a society that existed over 1500 years ago. Tung is the recipient of the 2011-12 Chancellor’s Cup. The award is given annually for “the greatest contribution outside the classroom to undergraduate student-faculty… Read MoreJul 18, 2012
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Rare NEA research grant to fund Vanderbilt study on art-making and quality of life
The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt will use $10,000 from the NEA to study correlations between art-making and quality of life. Read MoreJun 12, 2012
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Jarman’s ‘Bone Fires’ wins Balcones Poetry Prize
'Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems' has earned Austin Community College's annual Balcones Poetry Prize. Read MoreJun 12, 2012
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Listen: Vanderbilt environment shapes Randall’s novel
Vanderbilt University Writer-in-Residence Alice Randall credits the school’s creative and interdisciplinary approaches to obesity-related diseases like diabetes with providing “fertile ground” for her new novel, Ada’s Rules (Bloomsbury USA). Read MoreMay 15, 2012
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New York Times op-ed: Black women and fat
"My goal is to be the last fat black woman in my family," writes Alice Randall, writer in residence at Vanderbilt and author of "Ada's Rules." Read MoreMay 7, 2012
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Family life impedes political participation by women
The responsibilities of family life tend to impede political participation by women in the Americas, a new study from the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University shows. Read MoreApr 30, 2012
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Vanderbilt digital archive recovers lost Civil Rights voices
Digitized versions of the original reel-to-reel recordings that author Robert Penn Warren conducted with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and other key leaders in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are now searchable through the Who Speaks for the Negro website housed at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreApr 27, 2012
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Two Vanderbilt humanities professors named Guggenheim fellows
Two humanities professors in Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science have been named 2012 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read MoreApr 24, 2012
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Colin Dayan named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Colin Dayan, the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, has been named to a distinguished class of leaders from academia, business, public affairs, humanities and the arts, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced April 17. Read MoreApr 18, 2012
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Common Ground: Amy-Jill Levine explores the shared heritage of Christianity and Judaism
Amy-Jill Levine explores the shared heritage of Christianity and Judaism. Read MoreApr 9, 2012
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MSNBC Video: The science behind political thinking
Jonathan Metzl, director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society, explains the science behind how the brain weighs decisions and forms political beliefs on the "Melissa Harris-Perry" show. Read MoreMar 26, 2012
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Americas Quarterly: The effect of skin color in the Americas
Because racial identification is much more fluid in Latin America and the Caribbean than it is in the United States, researchers with Vanderbilt’s Latin American Public Opinion Project used actual skin color rather than racial identity to examine the effect of ethnicity on equality issues like class and educational attainment. Read MoreMar 6, 2012
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Sociologist Laura Carpenter delves into the intricacies of intimacy
Meet sociology professor Laura Carpenter, Vanderbilt's resident "sexpert." Her research interests include virginity loss and how chronic illness affects the sex lives of patients. Read MoreFeb 14, 2012