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Professor of Special Education Carolyn Hughes has won a $30,000 grant from the Organization for Autism ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ to fund a pilot project that will help high school students with autism become more included and involved in their schools and with their peers. Read More

The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) along with ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Athletics will offer recycling at all ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ men's and women's home basketball games, beginning Saturday, Jan. 2, with the game against Southern Mississippi. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been awarded the National Science Foundation's largest ever Faculty Early Career Development grant in the field of astronomy. She will use the prestigious award to continue her studies of black holes while supporting the university's innovative program designed to make the university the top producer of underrepresented minorities with Ph.D.s in physics and astronomy. Read More

A workshop on transformational leadership will be held Jan. 16 at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. The public is invited to the 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. event in the reading room of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School, 411 21st Ave. S. Read More

They’re on the frontline of the workday world – filling our coffee cups, trimming our hair, holding Sunday open houses – but workers in some service jobs in Tennessee are at a higher risk of not having access to health care coverage through their employers, according to a study conducted… Read More

Christina West, director of federal relations for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, has been named assistant vice chancellor for federal relations. West will continue to run the university's Washington office and will direct all federal government relations activities for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ and Peabody faculty are available to offer perspective on education issues and other current topics for the year 2010. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University faculty are available to offer perspective on business issues and other current topics for the year 2010. Read More

As you consider year-in-review stories and look ahead to the trends of 2010, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University faculty are available to offer perspective on these and other topics. mailto:bruce.barry@vanderbilt.edu Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University has named Michael Brown associate director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Life. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University is already gearing up for spring with the launch of its new Web site on all things Commencement at www.vanderbilt.edu/commencement. Read More

Randall Kenan, an acclaimed author of novels, short stories, memoir and commentary, will read from his work at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University on Jan. 28. Read More

A large national study of economic behavior led by a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ researcher has found that effective recycling laws encourage reluctant recyclers to become committed recyclers. Read More

As the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit continues, two ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ researchers suggest that regardless of whether or not the meeting is successful in bringing public governance measures to bear, significant carbon reductions can be achieved by creating private incentives to reduce carbon emissions. Read More

A team of MBA students from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Owen Graduate School of Management took second place in a prestigious MBA case competition, the University of Texas at Austin National Real Estate Challenge. Read More

The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Police Department has earned accreditation through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., whose programs are open to law enforcement agencies around the world. Read More

Luke Froeb, a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University business professor and former Chief Economist at the FTC said he sees very little horizontal overlap in the NBC/Comcast merger. But that wouldn't necessarily stop the Federal Communications Commission from asking for relief to assuage competitive and diversity concerns, said Froeb. Read More

Walburga von Raffler-Engel, a widely published linguistics expert who taught at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University for two decades, died on Nov. 28 in San Antonio. She was 89. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center has filled key positions with the naming of Anna Guest-Jelley as associate director and Kayti Protos as program coordinator. Read More

A leading international law expert cautions that the troop surge in Afghanistan must be accompanied by a concurrent improvement in the nation's system of justice, now plagued by lawlessness and graft. Read More