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The 2004 Tennessee Statewide Brain Bee Award will be presented to Jingyuan Wu of Oak Ridge High School at Vanderbilt University at noon on Thursday, March 11. Read More

Roy Neel, who served first as senior adviser and then campaign manager for presidential candidate Howard Dean, will give a public lecture on March 3 at 4 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema. Neel's talk is titled "The 2004 Presidential Campaign: The Lessons and Legacy of Howard Dean." Read More

Vanderbilt University will host researchers from several countries to review and discuss the latest research in blindness and its impact on the brain in a workshop March 12-14. The main lectures of the invitational workshop, "Blindness, Brain Plasticity and Spatial Function," are free and open to the community. Read More

Robert Belton, professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School, was honored with the prestigious Z. Alexander Looby Lifetime Achievement Award at the Napier-Looby Bar Foundation's third annual Barristers Banquet and Awards Program on Feb. 19 in Nashville. Read More

In 1997, writer Tony Earley faced his first freshman English class at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt announces four staff members have been named assistant vice chancellors within the University's Division of Public Affairs. Read More

The Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University will open "Feeling Sun," an exhibition of works by local painter Melanie Jackson, Tuesday, March 2, at a reception 4 to 6 p.m. at the center. Read More

Last year, the amount of external funding that Vanderbilt researchers received from peer-reviewed contracts and grants increased by 19 percent to reach an all-time high of $339.4 million. Read More

Roy Neel, a Vanderbilt adjunct professor of political science who served as Howard Dean's campaign manager during the final weeks of his presidential campaign, returns to campus March 3 to discuss the significance of Dean's candidacy for future elections. Read More

Cathy L. Jrade, a Vanderbilt University professor and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write a book on Delmira Agustini, the first major female poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Read More

Mo Rocca, who first gained attention as a political correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, will appear at Vanderbilt on Monday, March 1. Read More

A new chair at Vanderbilt University Law School advances the school's program in law and business and honors one of the school's former administrators and long-time supporters. The John S. Beasley II Chair in Law and Business was awarded to its first recipient, Professor Randall Thomas, in a ceremony on Feb. 18. Read More

Lessons learned in church aren't of much use unless they are applied to daily life. Read More

The Vanderbilt Learning Sciences Institute will host the first installment of its new guest lecturer series Thursday, Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. with University of California-Berkeley professor of education and geology Jean Lave. Lave will speak on how people learn during their everyday lives, a theory referred to as "learning-in-practice." Read More

Avery Leiserson, a distinguished Vanderbilt University political scholar who served in a variety of leadership roles, died Feb. 14 at the Woodcrest at the Blakeford in Nashville. The professor of political science, emeritus, was 90 years old and recently had been suffering from pneumonia. Read More

We all know stress is harmful to our health. A survey of 100 years of research indicates the impact of stress and negative thinking is far more direct, and more preventable, than previously documented. Survey author and Vanderbilt University psychology professor Oakley Ray believes the evidence calls for a fundamental change in how the medical profession approaches disease and healing. Read More

Judy Chicago, author, feminist, educator and mother figure of the women's art movement, will present "At Home in Kentucky" on Thursday, Feb. 26, at Vanderbilt's Sarratt Student Center. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are studying a new inhaled form of insulin in three separate clinical trials. If proven effective the new form of insulin, which is delivered to patients as an aerosolized powder via the lungs, could cut in half the number of insulin injections for a certain population of diabetics. Read More

Philosopher John J. Stuhr will mark his return to Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 26, with an inaugural lecture that explores the repercussions of compartmentalizing philosophy from the rest of education and life. Read More

Are violent people born that way, or are they products of their environments? Terrie Moffitt, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin and King's College, London, will discuss the role genetics plays in antisocial behavior on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More