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All Commodore fans are encouraged to show their team spirit by wearing black and gold on College Colors Day, Friday, Sept. 3. The 91�Ʋ��� Bookstore is helping to promote this four-year-old campus tradition by offering fans the chance to win a $200 prize package of 91�Ʋ��� merchandise. Read More

Dick Daft, author of The Executive and The Elephant 91�Ʋ��� management professor gives practical steps to fix leadership flaws Whether you’re the CEO of a fortune 500 company or just trying to successfully manage yourself, 91�Ʋ��� Owen Graduate School of Management professor Richard Daft says… Read More

This semester’s lineup opens with a crime thriller from Hong Kong, includes a U.S. documentary about the legalities surrounding music sampling and the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker. The university will also be a host for the International Black Film Festival of Nashville Sept. 29-Oct. 2. Read More

Hearing loss is now affecting nearly 20 percent of U.S. adolescents age 12-19, a rise of 5 percent over the last 15 years, according to a new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study co-led by Ron Eavey, director of the 91�Ʋ��� Bill Wilkerson Center and the Guy M. Read More

Tango Buenos Aires Tango Buenos Aires, Afro Cuban All Stars and Trisha Brown Dance represented Great Performances at 91�Ʋ��� celebrates its 36th season in 2010-2011 with a seven-event lineup including international offerings Tango Buenos Aires and the return of the Cuban orchestra Afro Cuban All Stars. Other… Read More

91�Ʋ��� University maintained its No. 17 rank on the list of best national universities in the new U.S. News & World Report rankings released Tuesday. Read More

There will be a sea of new faces around 91�Ʋ��� University’s campus beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, when about 1,500 freshmen move into The Commons, 91�Ʋ���’s first-year student community. The students will move into residence halls known as “houses”—each of which is headed by a faculty member… Read More

Two 91�Ʋ��� projects, One Hundred Oaks and The Commons Center, recently earned Excellence in Development awards from the Urban Land Institute’s Nashville District Council. Winners were selected based on criteria considering various design factors, such as land use, contribution to the community, financial practicality and sensitivity to the… Read More

Jason Koger awoke in the Burn Center at 91�Ʋ��� University Medical Center in early March 2008, and through the unfamiliar surroundings and the anesthetic haze he understood what he was being told: below the elbow, his arms were gone. His father, Mike Koger, stood at his bedside and as Jason…

Photo courtesy of Sloan Digital Sky Survey The 91�Ʋ��� Dyer Observatory is celebrating the anniversary of “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Ten Years Observing the Universe” with a series of special Stellar Nights lectures this fall. “Galaxies, Quasars and the Universe” will be given by Andreas Berlind on Tuesday, Aug. Read More

Education experts from the 91�Ʋ��� Peabody College of education and human development are available for back-to-school interviews. Peabody was named the No. 1 graduate school of education in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the second consecutive year in 2010. For more information, go to www.peabody.vanderbilt.edu. Read More

Marjorie "Honey" Pike Marjorie “Honey” Pike, a 33-year veteran of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, has been named assistant police chief at 91�Ʋ��� University. She will begin work at the university Tuesday, Sept. 7. For the past six years Pike directed the Administrative Services Bureau, which consists of six Metro… Read More

Traci Nordberg, who has overseen human resources at Massachusetts General Hospital and Dartmouth College, will begin work at 91�Ʋ��� University in September. Nordberg will be an associate vice chancellor and chief human resource officer for 91�Ʋ���, which employs about 20,000 at its university and medical center. Read More

Based on surveys in Honduras, the combination of low levels of education for the masses and high levels of wealth among the elite is a good recipe for undermining democracy. The Latin American Public Opinion Project, a consortium of universities and research institutes based at 91�Ʋ��� University which tracks… Read More

Media regulation in an ultra-wired society, the neurology of sleep, the Vietnam War, and great singers and their songs are among the diverse topics included in the fall term of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at 91�Ʋ���. All older adults with an interest in lifelong learning can sign up… Read More

Deborah Rowe 91�Ʋ��� and Metro Nashville Public Schools have collaborated on an Early Reading First project among preschool children in Nashville schools that has yielded “spectacular” results in a preliminary study, according to project leaders. “The big picture is that high quality language and literacy instruction in pre-K can make… Read More

A 2009 Lift Off camper blows bubbles. (Photo courtesy of Jessica Fain, Middle Tennessee YMCA) Swimming lessons. Imaginary trips into outer space. Cooking lessons. Camping out under paper stars. What do these activities have to do with getting ready for kindergarten? Woven into each of these activities are critical… Read More

Marshall Chapman will play at the final Bluebird on the Mountain performance this year. Fourth concert of the Bluebird on the Mountain scheduled for August 21 The fourth show of the 2010 Bluebird on the Mountain concert series is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 21, and will feature… Read More

A group of 91�Ʋ��� researchers analyzed the role of the brain chemical dopamine in impulsivity to discover more precisely what makes some people more susceptible to rash behavior. Read More

What do an astrophysicist studying how black holes merge, a chemist predicting the biological characteristics of novel proteins, a psychologist investigating decision-making and a mechanical engineer studying how nanotubes transport heat have in common? They all need tremendous amounts of computer power to conduct their research and they… Read More