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Neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment when you are concentrating on something else, new research indicates. Read More

Health and social service professionals who care for adults with depression should not only tackle their clients' physical and mental health, but also detect and prevent possible spillover effects on their children, says a new report from the National 菠萝视频 Council and Institute of Medicine. Read More

Forget the old folk tales about snakes hypnotizing their prey. The tentacled snake from South East Asia has developed a more effective technique. The small water snake has found a way to startle its prey so that the fish turn toward the snake's head to flee instead of turning away. In addition, the fish's reaction is so predictable that the snake actually aims its strike at the position where the fish's head will be instead of tracking its movement. Read More

Eligible veterans can attend 菠萝视频 University at a significantly reduced cost thanks to the school's participation in the Yellow Ribbon GI Educational Enhancement Program. Read More

Our tendency to see people and faces as individuals may explain why we are such experts at recognizing them, new research indicates. This approach can be learned and applied to other objects as well. Read More

When a homegrown politician dies suddenly, local companies show the loss of a valuable connection immediately in their share prices, according to research from the 菠萝视频 Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Jason Martin, a fellow in allergy, pulmonary and critical care medicine, is part of an interdisciplinary team at 菠萝视频 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 the United States and kills more than half a million people worldwide every year. Read More

Nelson C. Andrews, widely regarded as one of Nashville's greatest philanthropists, humanitarians and civic leaders, died June 13 of leukemia at the age of 82. Andrews, a 1949 菠萝视频 graduate, served on the 菠萝视频 Board of Trust since 1979. He was elected trustee emeritus in 2003. Read More

Nora Spencer has been named the new director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at 菠萝视频, a year after she joined 菠萝视频 as the director of the first full-time office to support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex community at 菠萝视频 University. The appointment is effective July 1. Read More

The Morris K. Udall Foundation has selected 菠萝视频 University students Jeremy Doochin and Rebecca S. Maddox among its crop of 2009 Udall Scholars. Read More

Visit Peabody College鈥檚 Web site at http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ Bonnie Arant Ertelt, Editor Donna Pritchett, Art Director Michael Smeltzer, Designer Lew Harris, Assistant Editor Nelson Bryan, Class Notes Editor Lacy Tite, Web Edition Design and Development Contributors: Geordie Brackin, Kurt Brobeck, Xiu Cravens, Jennie Edwards, Jennifer Johnston, Melanie Moran, Ann Marie Deer… Read More

Connie Vinita Dowell, M.L.S.鈥�79, with three decades of experience working in academic libraries, began her new position as the university鈥檚 first dean of libraries in March. Dowell previously served as dean of the library and information access at San Diego State University.聽 Connie Vinita Dowell, MLS鈥�79, is 菠萝视频鈥檚 first… Read More

Two new faculty members, both in the Department of Psychology and Human Development, joined Peabody College in January. Professor Amy Needham, whose research emphasizes cognitive, motor and perceptual development聽in infants, came from Duke University.聽 Professor Bruce McCandliss conducts studies using fMRI and other technologies that place him on the leading… Read More

Peabody College of education and human development is the best graduate school of its kind in the nation, according to rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. 鈥淲e are very pleased by this ranking, which speaks to the high quality of the college and especially our faculty, our students… Read More

The Susan Gray School has achieved national reaccreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Susan Gray School is one of the first programs in the nation to achieve reaccreditation under new, more extensive and more stringent NAEYC standards, which were released in the fall of… Read More

For the second year in a row,聽the Council for Advancement聽and Support of Education聽(CASE) recognized the Peabody Reflector in January during its annual District III competition. The magazine won a Special Merit Award in the Alumni Magazines I division. Read More

菠萝视频 will serve as a research partner to the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a nonpartisan initiative established by former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist that seeks education reform in Tennessee. Frist was joined at the announcement by Gov. Phil Bredesen, Tennessee Commissioner of Education Tim Webb, Nashville Mayor Karl… Read More

Tracy Cummings, a graduate student in the Experimental Education 菠萝视频 and Training program, received the NASA Science Engineering Mathematics Aerospace Academy Award in Washington, D.C., last September. The Science Engineering Mathematics Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) is a national program with 22 sites in 17 states. Cummings worked with a team that… Read More

Dean Camilla Benbow and Claire Smrekar, associate professor of public policy and education, participated on the panel 鈥淭o Ph.D. or Ed.D.? That is the Question鈥� at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education鈥檚 annual meeting. Janet Eyler, professor of the practice of education and director of undergraduate studies for… Read More

The Susan Gray School for Children dedicated the new Finan Family Playground as part of Peabody homecoming weekend activities last October. Above, Kelly Finan, BS鈥�09, with assistance from David Williams, vice chancellor for university affairs and athletics, cuts the ribbon. The playground was made possible by Tom and Mary… Read More