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A Vanderbilt Divinity School professor says that a four-decade trend of the cinematic "countercultural Jesus" may be interrupted by the release of actor Mel Gibson's take on the crucifixion story, The Passion of the Christ. Read More

Theatre students at Vanderbilt University will get a week of intense instruction in Shakespearean acting when the Actors From the London Stage company visits for a weeklong residency in February. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Vision Research Center (VVRC) recently won a competitive renewal of a $2.8 million grant from the National Eye Institute to train graduate and post-doctoral students in vision research. The grant is the latest in a series of funds the University has won to support vision research. Read More

Veteran rap artist Chuck D will be among a panel of experts from both sides of the Internet downloading debate featured in an upcoming Vanderbilt University event. Read More

Constitution building and reconstruction in Iraq will be the subject of a Vanderbilt University Law School symposium beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23. The two speakers, Judge Gilbert S. Merritt and Kevin Reinhart, each spent time working in Iraq in the summer of 2003. Read More

Vanderbilt University professor Cecelia Tichi, author of ExposÈs and Excess: Muckraking in America 1900/2000, will speak about the comeback of muckraking journalism at two Nashville events. Read More

Claims that homosexuality can be cured through religious faith will be examined at a conference on Saturday, Feb. 7, at Vanderbilt University, the same day another conference is scheduled at a Nashville church to promote the concept. Read More

How does investigating the roots of crime change a vacant lot into a community garden? Harvard public health researcher Felton Earls will discuss his findings that change can be as simple as "taking action, making an effort" as part of the Vanderbilt Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Series Thursday, Jan. 22, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

Today, we know a little bit more about one of mankind's deadliest enemies, the mosquito. Scientists have taken an important step toward understanding the mosquito's sense of smell, an avenue of research that may lead to better ways to repel the deadly insect. Read More

A lecture series at Vanderbilt University examining the legacy of John Rawls, considered by many to be the most important philosopher of the 20th century, next features his most prominent critic. Read More

Brandon Silveria knows firsthand the perils of drinking and driving. At age 17, after drinking a couple of beers at a high school party and then getting behind the wheel of his car, Silveria was involved in a near-fatal crash that left him comatose for three months. What followed were a grueling three-year rehabilitation and permanent speech and walking disabilities. Read More

The ability to analyze and defend against novel biological agents has been strengthened by the development of a new device that can monitor the metabolism of living cells in near real time. Read More

The Owen Graduate School of Management will host a round of the 2004 Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) on Jan. 16. Read More

Nashville has experienced a three-fold increase in foreign-born residents since 1990 - from 12,662 to 39,596. However, 80 percent of agencies providing social services to these populations are located outside of immigrant communities, and the majority of agencies experience language barriers with the people they serve, according to a new report. Read More

Juan Williams, best-selling author and senior correspondent for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," will deliver the keynote address for Vanderbilt University's 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series Jan. 19-27. Read More

The basics of ethics will be the subject of the first community breakfast of 2004 sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School. C.Melissa Snarr, assistant professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt Divinity School, will speak from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29, at the University Club of Nashville. Read More

The director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute for Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt University will present a survey of the prophetic responses to racism during a four-part community education series that begins Jan. 19. Read More

Brandon Silveria knows firsthand the perils of drinking and driving. At age 17, after drinking a couple of beers at a high school party and then getting behind the wheel of his car, Silveria was involved in a near-fatal crash that left him comatose for three months. What followed were a grueling three-year rehabilitation and permanent speech and walking disabilities. Read More

Garrett C. Klein, senior associate director of undergraduate admissions at Vanderbilt University, died Sunday of injuries suffered in a traffic accident in Georgia. He was 32. Son Bennett Derby Klein, 4, also died in the accident. Read More

Samuel B. Richmond, who left a distinguished teaching and research career at Columbia University to move to Vanderbilt University, where he transformed the Owen Graduate School of Management from a small regional graduate school of business into one of the nation's best, died Monday. He was 84 Read More