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Expert typists are able to zoom across the keyboard without ever thinking about which fingers are pressing the keys. New research from Ģ����Ƶ reveals that this skill is managed by an autopilot, one that is able to catch errors that can fool our conscious brain. Read More

“The Sixties at 50,” an exhibition of unique video, photographs and other treasures from one of society’s most significant decades, is now open at the Ģ����Ƶ Central Library and Special Collections. Read More

Roy Skinner, who won 278 basketball games, compiled an 81.5 percent winning percentage at Memorial Gym and recruited the first black athlete to the Southeastern Conference, died of respiratory failure at Southern Hills Medical Center. He was 80. Read More

Joni Hersch (click to download a high-resoultion version of this photo) It has been long suspected that Mexican immigrants often work on dangerous and unpleasant jobs for low pay.  New research by Ģ����Ƶ Law School professors Joni Hersch and… Read More

Warm, coming-of-age story set in the late 1960s will leave audiences glowing with laughter and love Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe premieres at Neely Auditorium at Ģ����Ƶ on Nov. 5. In this Tony Award-winning comedy, a young blind man and the free-spirited girl-next-door discover the values of… Read More

Legendary rock group U2 will bring their U2 360 tour to Ģ����Ƶ Stadium on Saturday, July 2. Read More

Ģ����Ƶ is one of 89 colleges and universities taking the EPA Game Day recycling challenge for Homecoming. Volunteers will assist the Commodore Nation in scoring off the field in the challenge that is taking place across the country. Read More

[Media Note: Ģ����Ƶ has a 24/7 TV and radio studio with a dedicated fiber optic line and ISDN line. Use of the TV studio with Ģ����Ƶ experts is free, except for reserving fiber time. A video of Stern’s talk will be posted on http://news.vanderbilt.edu,… Read More

Ģ����Ƶ released an updated inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for calendar years 2005 through 2009. The report shows that total GHG emissions decreased by 7.8 percent from 2008 to 2009 and by 2.4 percent overall from 2005 to 2009.  Ģ����Ƶ’s Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) compiled the… Read More

The life of Richard Nagareda, the David Daniels Allen Professor of Law and director of the Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program at Ģ����Ƶ Law School, will be celebrated Friday, Nov. 12, at 4 p.m. in the law school’s Flynn Auditorium. Read More

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Ģ����Ƶ professor T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting was named one of the top 100 young leaders of the African American community by the The Root, an online magazine founded by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Sharpley-Whiting is the author of Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on… Read More

Noted congressional scholar Thomas E. Mann will speak at Ģ����Ƶ on Oct. 28 about the outlook for the 2010 midterm elections. The public lecture marks the official launch of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, which is housed within Ģ����Ƶ’s Department of Political Science. Read More

Expect the campaign rhetoric to sizzle the last two weeks before the 2010 midterms, says John Geer, chair and Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Read More

Jonas King, a member of the research group of Julián Hillyer, assistant professor of biological sciences, captured the image as part of the group's research on the circulatory system of Anopheles gambiae, a mosquito that spreads malaria. Read More

Mayor Karl Dean Nashville Mayor Karl Dean will join Ģ����Ƶ Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Vice Chancellor Jeff Balser and other university officials and employees for the annual Senior Leader Walk Thursday, Oct. 14, from noon to 12:45 p.m. Groups will proceed from five different locations to the… Read More

If there is one thing that nanoscientists need above all else to study the behavior of materials and create devices at the scale of individual atoms, it is an ultra-clean environment. The fresh air that we breathe contains something like one million microscopic particles in a cubic foot,… Read More

The National Center for School Choice at Ģ����Ƶ’s Peabody College of education and human development has released a series of five research briefs explaining new findings on charter schools. Read More

A special mobile museum will make a stop at Ģ����Ƶ’s campus during its tour of the Southeast to promote awareness of modern slavery. The museum is sponsored by the Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based organization of low-wage agricultural workers throughout Florida, particularly in the tomato and citrus industries. Read More

Kate Daniels Kate Daniels, author of the soon-to-be-published A Walk in Victoria’s Secret and three other poetry collections, has been named winner of the 2011 Hanes Award for Poetry by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Daniels, associate professor of English at Ģ����Ƶ, will receive the Hanes Award in… Read More

Dr. Raphael Smith's 1955 Commodore photo Dr. Raphael Smith, one of the co-founders of WRVU, is one of six Ģ����Ƶ alumni who will be inducted into the Ģ����Ƶ Student Media Hall of Fame on Oct. 22. Smith, who is now a Ģ����Ƶ professor of medicine, emeritus, provided most of… Read More