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Metropolitan Nashville Police are investigating the shooting death Tuesday evening of Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Anthropology Pierre Robert Colas and the wounding of his sister who was visiting from Switzerland. Marie Colas, 27, was taken to Vanderbilt Medical Center, where she is in critical but stable condition. Read More

Watch video of the Aug. 26 Fall Faculty Assembly, which took place in the Student Life Center Commodore Ballroom. Read More

More than 1,700 new Vanderbilt University students, including first-year and transfer students, will carry banners and march into the school's main gate 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, during Founders Walk, a tradition that formally welcomes new students to the Vanderbilt community. Read More

The Vanderbilt News Service recently announced several changes to its leadership team. Melanie Moran has been named associate director with responsibility for the office's operation in the absence of Director and Assistant Vice Chancellor for News and Communications Elizabeth P. Latt. Read More

The new university registrar at Vanderbilt University is Cheng H. Khoo. He begins work immediately. Read More

William Spitz, former treasurer of Vanderbilt University, has been named the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Winner by Foundation & Endowment Money Management. Spitz retired from Vanderbilt last year. Read More

Monroe J. Carell Jr., a Nashville executive admired as much for his generous philanthropy, especially in support of Vanderbilt University, as for his business acumen, died peacefully at home today after a courageous battle with cancer. Read More

Vanderbilt University will elevate creative practice on and off campus to prepare students to work with globalized markets, engage emerging technologies and navigate increasingly complex intellectual property rules through an expansive new program funded by recording industry executive Mike Curb. Read More

The new full-time office to support the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community at Vanderbilt University will be led by Nora Spencer, who leaves a similar job at the University of Florida. Read More

Michael R. Snellgrove has been named Vanderbilt University\'s assistant chief of police. Snellgrove, who joined the university June 2, most recently served as a division commander at Duke University Police Department. Read More

A Vanderbilt University vice chancellor has been elected to chair the Board of Trustees at Simmons College in Boston. Lauren J. Brisky, vice chancellor for administration and chief financial officer at Vanderbilt, was unanimously elected to a three-year term at the Simmons board meeting in May. Read More

Camilla P. Benbow, dean of Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College of education and human development, has received the 2008 Distinguished Alumna Award from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Benbow will deliver the commencement address at the Johns Hopkins School of Education May 22. Read More

A Vanderbilt University alumna who helped redesign key alumni initiatives, including ones that reach out to current students, and a graduating senior who has served in numerous leadership roles are the newest members of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. Read More

Watch video of the May 9 main Commencement ceremony on Alumni Lawn. Read More

Richard McCarty, a distinguished psychologist who has led the largest school at Vanderbilt University for the past seven years, will be presented to the Vanderbilt Board of Trust next week for confirmation as the university\'s chief academic officer. Read More

Two professors in Vanderbilt\'s College of Arts and Science have been named 2008 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Michael D. Bess, the Chancellor\'s Professor of History, and Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German, are among 190 recipients in the United States and Canada to receive a Guggenheim. Read More

Fifteen retiring faculty members will be recognized during Vanderbilt\'s May 9 commencement ceremony when the university honors their years of service and bestows on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Read More

Vanderbilt University is partnering with Google to offer its undergraduate students Gmail, Google\'s e-mail offering. The service will be launched in early summer. Read More

Watch video of the Spring Faculty Assembly, with remarks by Chancellor Nick Zeppos; Claire Smrekar, associate professor of public policy and education; Bruce Barry, chair of the Faculty Senate and professor of management and sociology; and the presentation of five teaching awards. Audio-only podcast also available. Read More

Marlon C. Lynch, the chief of police at Vanderbilt University, is the 2008-2009 president-elect for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, Inc. (IACLEA). Read More