Lectures & Events

One of the most prolific medical inventors in history, Robert S. Langer, spoke at Vanderbilt Nov. 11 about a variety of topics including how drug delivery technologies, including novel polymers and intelligent microchips, promise to create new treatments for cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses. Read More

An Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and a member of the Nazi Youth Movement discuss their "uncommon friendship" as part of Vanderbilt's Holocaust Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Law School. Read More

An Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and a member of the Nazi Youth Movement discuss their "uncommon friendship" as part of Vanderbilt\'s Holocaust Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Law School. Read More

The work of three Fisk University scholars who researched the lives and music of people in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s was celebrated Nov. 3 with music and discussion in Fisk\'s historic Jubilee Hall. Read More

The Rev. Edward A. Malloy, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame and a member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, spoke during a Oct. 27 seminar in Buttrick Hall on science, religion and the mission of higher education. Read More

When Vanderbilt\'s administration contacted Law School Dean Ed Rubin about a new federal requirement requiring that every educational institution receiving federal funds celebrate Constitution Day, Rubin initially considered submitting a list of constitutional law classes currently in session. Read More

Listen to a Sept. 13 lecture by Karen R. Harris and Stephen E. Graham, the first holders of the Currey Ingram Chair of Special Education at Peabody College. The two professors of special education are committed to improving the literacy abilities of all children, including those with learning disabilities. The chair was made possible through a gift from John Rivers Ingram and Stephanie Currey Ingram. Introductory speakers at the lecture were: Peabody Dean Camilla Benbow, Provost Nicholas Zeppos and Chancellor Gordon Gee. Read More

Reinhard Selten, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994, will speak on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Vanderbilt University to begin the Chancellor\'s Lecture Series for the academic year. Selten will discuss "bounded rationality," a central theme in behavioral economics. Read More

Reinhard Selten, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994, will speak on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Vanderbilt University to begin the Chancellor's Lecture Series for the academic year. Selten will discuss "bounded rationality," a central theme in behavioral economics. Read More