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Jess Neely Drive on the Vanderbilt University campus will be closed on Friday, Nov. 13, starting at 8 a.m. The closure will be between Natchez Trace and 25th Avenue South. It will reopen on Saturday, Nov. 14, after the Vanderbilt football game is over (around 2 p.m.).

Creativity, an increasingly valued aspect of life and work in college and beyond, is the subject of an innovative new program at Vanderbilt University offered through its Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranked Vanderbilt University 17th on its list of 100 best values in private institutions, which ranked private liberal arts colleges and universities that combine outstanding economic value with exceptional education.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a Magnet... Care Center and will be responsible for implementing strategic decisions made by the Patient Care Center..

Four years after its creation and only a year and a half after granting degrees to its first class, the MFA Creative Writing program at Vanderbilt University was named a Top 20 program in the country by Poets & Writers magazine.

Colorful sculptures in the form of movable stair stoops and a panel discussion with three Vanderbilt University faculty members are among the ongoing activities for Art Makes Place, a year-long project to bring more contemporary art to Nashville's public spaces.

Patrick H. Reilly focuses his practice in product liability litigation. He earned his law degree at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2009 after graduating magna cum laude in history, philosophy and French from Butler University in 2006. During law school, Reilly was an in...

Jerry Fife, who has served as Vanderbilt's acting vice chancellor for administration for the past eight months, has been appointed to the role permanently after a national search by the university. His appointment is subject to approval by the Board of Trust.

Vanderbilt University Professor of Political Science Bruce Oppenheimer spoke about the continued increase in presidential power at the expense of Congress during the university's annual Constitution Day program on Sept. 23. The event took place in Flynn Auditorium of Vanderbilt Law...

Vanderbilt University alumna Ashley Esser has received a Fulbright Scholarship. She will travel to Italy to teach English as a foreign language for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Elyn Saks, a 1977 graduate of Vanderbilt University and renowned legal scholar and mental health-policy advocate, was recently named one of 24 recipients of the 2009 MacArthur Fellow grants.

Vanderbilt University is helping keep safe the thousands of people who live, work, learn or receive health care on the campus by being the first and only university in Tennessee to become certified as "StormReady" by the National Weather Service.

Martin, who is a fellow in allergy, pulmonary and critical care medicine, is part of an interdisciplinary team at Vanderbilt University that has come up with a high-tech approach to combat this deadly illness, which is one of the top 10 causes of death ...

In his new book, "First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" (Vanderbilt University Press, June 2009), David N. Gibbs argues that not only is humanitarian intervention not very successful in ending ethnic strife, ...

 NC By Natasha Robinson Rocky Mount High School salutatorian Erika Wesonga did so well, she was able to turn down a full scholarship to Duke University and a partial scholarship to Vanderbilt University to go take a full scholarship to the University of ...

I started volunteering in pediatrics and I really enjoyed it, and that convinced me to apply to medical school," Sheedy said. After graduation Sheedy will relocate to Nashville to pursue a doctorate in medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of ...

 VA In 1988, he received a JD from Vanderbilt University, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and served as editor in chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He was a partner with the law firm of Bass Berry & Sims, in Nashville, Tenn., practicing general ...

David will attend Vanderbilt University where he plans on playing club tennis. Senior Bobby Renner, the third co-captain, pairs with junior Sebastian Chen-Schmidt at second doubles. Renner is going to Elon University. Millburn graduated its first and ...

 TN Vanderbilt University School of Medicine now ranks among the top 15 US medical schools, according to US News and World Report's annual ranking of graduate education programs and health disciplines released today. The new edition of America's Best ...

Vanderbilt University News By AP NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt University's Arthur J. Dyer Observatory in Nashville has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. The observatory was built on a hilltop south of downtown in 1953 and contains valuable historical ...

The book is due to be published in June by Vanderbilt University Press. Gibbs argues that political considerations were the more likely motive for the Balkans conflict. He also shows that the Kosovo war had many features in common with then-President ...

Yale Law School (visiting) 1:00 to 2:30 PM: PANEL 2: COMPLEMENTARITY AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Michael Newton, Vanderbilt University School of Law Commentators: Linda Keller, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Linda Carter, University of the ...

MarketWatch (press release) Rother received his JD from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1999 and both a BA, magna cum laude, and a BBA, magna cum laude and honors in business, from Southern Methodist University in 1996. Rother was admitted to practice law in Texas in 1999. ...

 MA Fontana grew up in Peabody, and attended St. Johns Prep as a high school student. He graduated from Vanderbilt University’s school of engineering in 1987 and received his MBA from Columbia University in New York in 1993. Four years ago, Fontana founded ...

Tufts University junior Dean Ladin expected to owe as much as $40,000 in student loans upon graduation and assumed he'd need to postpone for years his dream of working in youth services.But now he's planning to apply for a low-paying teaching job in a high-need setting. By doing so, he will b...

By Jon Bill Ivey is the Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University – a cultural policy center with offices in Nashville and Washington. He is also a trustee of the Center for American Progress. During the Clinton Administration, Ivey served as Cha...

By The Consus Group Chapman University School of Law. 2. University of St. Thomas School of Law. 3. Stanford University Law School. 4. Vanderbilt University School of Law. 5. University of Virginia School of Law. 6. University of Colorado at Boulder School ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Police are investigating a shooting at an east Nashville home that resulted in the death of a Vanderbilt University professor. Related:Images | Video A person who lived in an upstairs apartment at the house on McFerrin Avenue called police at 9:20 p.m. Once they arrived,...

By Nick Slideshow of Vanderbilt University campus. 15)Elon University. Elon’s campus, located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, has already been recognized by Princeton Review as one of the nation’s most beautiful campuses. ...

By DZuckerman Vanderbilt University News carried this headline yesterday: “New review clears silicone gel breast implants of serious health risks; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers find no cancer link.” Objective researchers will disagree ...

Police, fire and courts  IL - Megan Henneberg, a former Morton resident employed as a nurse at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., married Brian Henneberg on June 5, ...

News from Vanderbilt University  TN - A researcher with the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has been named the principal investigator for the largest-ever data review to ...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Plus, there's his area of expertise: Keckley was formerly the Executive Director, Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine. What's "evidence-based medicine," you ask? The Nashville Business Journal explains it like so: "evidence-based medicine is that, by identifying medi...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Doctors reattached the right foot of a 13-year-old girl involved in a gruesome amusement park accident, but her left foot was too severely damaged to repair, her family and doctor said in a statement Tuesday. Kaitlyn Lasitter of Louisville remained in stable condition a...

Inside Higher Education--Ohio State University has been trying to recruit Gordon Gee, its president during the 1990s and now chancellor of Vanderbilt University, to return to his old job.

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) Listen to highlights from the Vanderbilt University Calendar for the weeks of November 10-24.

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By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) Listen to highlights from the Vanderbilt University Calendar for the week of October 27-November 3.

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) The Golden Globe Award-winning television show Lost will be used as a springboard for learning concepts about cultural studies in a new communications studies course at Vanderbilt University.

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) Listen to highlights from the Vanderbilt University Calendar for the week of August 18-25.

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By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) Respect for a variety of religious traditions is growing in America, but that welcome development holds potential pitfalls for democracy, believes Robert Wuthnow, a Princeton University sociologist who spoke March 23 at at Vanderbilt University.

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) Science Education in the 21st Century" was the topic of discussion between Virginia Shepherd, Vanderbilt professor of pathology and medicine, and approximately 300 members of the Nashville community at the Nashville Public Library March 1. The lecture was part of the popular "Thinki...

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) Guest speaker Rick Chappell shatters some common misperceptions about gravity in space and shares his personal experiences from his training days as a back-up payload specialist for the NASA space shuttle. Dr. Chappell is a research professor of physics at Vanderbilt University and is...

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) The erosion of the legal recognition of torture as something that is forbidden in the United States and the implications for our broader legal system and society of that erosion were the subject of a lecture by Jeremy J. Waldorn, University Professor of Law and director of the Center for La...

While America's ongoing strained relations with France have received widespread media attention, a prominent foreign policy expert will speak at Vanderbilt University about what he perceives to be even greater fallout from U.S. diplomatic failures with Germany. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Wi...

Babies as young as five months old make distinctions about categories of events that their parents do not, revealing new information about how language develops in humans. The research by Sue Hespos, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, and Elizabeth Spelke, p...

Corey Slovis, M.D., chairman of the department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, gives tips on how to avoid heat related illnesses.

Spring break traditionally marks a time for college students to hit the ski slopes or lay on the beach, trading the hectic schedule of life on campus for rest and relaxation. During the week of March 8-12, however, more than 300 students from Vanderbilt University will stay busy participa...