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Trumix.com listings available of That's Vanderbilt: News from Vanderbilt University Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Video: THE APPALACHIAN CELEBRATION - A Place for the Humanities Watch video of the April 12 performance of The Pa's Fiddle Project Concert, part of a series of special events in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Vanderbilt University's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. The Pa's Fiddle Project features songs from the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Sankofa -- Vanderbilt University African Drumming and Dance Ensemble Watch video of Sankofa, the Blair School of Music's African Performing Ensemble, performing April 13 in Ingram Hall. 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Corker organized the roundtable to hear from those who are on the frontlines of the issue as he works in the Senate to reform the country's health care system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Singing Back Through Time: American Song from 2008-1900" Watch video of Amy Jarman, soprano; Jonathan Retzlaff, lyric baritone; Gayle Shay, mezzo-soprano; and Melissa Rose, pianist, perform "Singing Back Through Time: American Song from 2008-1900," which opened the Spring 2008 Faculty Concert Series at the Blair School of Music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Treasured Robert Penn Warren interviews now accessible via Internet For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can hear tapes of Robert Penn Warren's 1964 interviews with prominent Civil Rights activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and the Rev. James Lawson. The interviews were conducted for Warren's book "Who Speaks for the Negro?" and this project was made possible with the cooperative efforts of the Vanderbilt, Yale and University of Kentucky libraries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: Commencement 2008 The class of 2008 celebrates as more than 3,000 undergraduates, graduate and professional students receive their degrees. Hear from students and their families as they reminisce about Vanderbilt, Commencement and the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: Senior Day coverage An international rock star, a little rain and Chinese lions, oh my . . . check out VUCast's coverage of Senior Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of May 4 A Divinity School student makes a difference. And, the chairs are out, the strawberries are ready and the champagne is chilling. It's countdown to Commencement in this week's VUCast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Spring Faculty Assembly Watch video of the Spring Faculty Assembly, with remarks by Chancellor Nick Zeppos; Claire Smrekar, associate professor of public policy and education; Bruce Barry, chair of the Faculty Senate and professor of management and sociology; and the presentation of five teaching awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pennsylvania's political diversity helps Obama, says Vanderbilt professor Michelle V. Buchanan, associate laboratory director for physical sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, spoke at the Hall Engineering Lecture Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Student section of the American Nuclear Society established on campus Watch video of a talk by Dan Sperber,"Rituals and Institutions,"part of the 2008 Templeton Research Lectures exploring"The Causes of Religion." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Templeton Research Lecture:"Rituals and Institutions" The women's bowling team makes another run for an NCAA National Championship April 10-12. Our VUCast crew takes a CloserVU of what it takes to become a winner in the sport of bowling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Genomics, Religion, and Communication: Traversing Perspectives, Vocabularies, and Findings" Watch video of discussion from the Vanderbilt Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Allowing a Living Past to Compel a Pregnant Now" Watch video of the Rev. James Lawson, professor at Vanderbilt, giving the keynote presentation for the "We Speak for Ourselves" conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Physics to Teach Physics" Carl E. Wieman from the University of British Columbia who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of a new state of matter talks about the future of science education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Templeton Research Lecture: "Beliefs and Values" Watch video of the April 8 talk by Dan Sperber, "Beliefs and Values," part of the 2008 Templeton Research Lectures exploring "The Causes of Religion." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Templeton Research Lecture: "Asking the Right Questions" Watch video of the April 7 talk by Dan Sperber, "Asking the Right Questions," part of the 2008 Templeton Research Lectures exploring "The Causes of Religion." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Religion and Genomics: Health Care Professionals and Religion: Is This Trail Off Limits?" Watch video from the Vanderbilt Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Mapping Religion in the Clinic: Patients, Genomics, and Religious Pathways-Part 2" Watch video of discussion from the Vanderbilts Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Mapping Religion in the Clinic: Patients, Genomics, and Religious Pathways-Part 1" Watch video of discussion from the Vanderbilt Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Webb Keane on 'Religion as Linguistic Practice' Listen to a podcast of an April 4, 2008, lecture by University of Michigan anthropologist Webb Keane on "Religion as Linguistic Practice." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "God in Country Music Videos" Watch video of an April 2 discussion of eight country music videos, with special attention to religious content in the lyrics and religious imagery in video conception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Special Olympics Chairman Timothy Shriver at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center event Watch video of an April 1, 2008 luncheon presentation by Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Special Olymics, at the Community Partnership Luncheon honoring the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Panel presentation and audience discussion of "Who Speaks for the Negro?" A special panel including Houston Baker, Richard King, Bob Moses and Ruth Turner Perot examine Robert Penn Warren's 1965 book "Who Speaks for the Negro?" as part of Vanderbilt's commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vanderbilt Library offers next-generation research tool Vanderbilt University Library users can locate and access more quickly an expanding variety of resources, print, digital and electronic, thanks to the new online service DiscoverLibrary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Angela Davis speaks at event commemorating 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death Watch video of Angela Davis, professor of history of consciousness and feminist studies at the University of California Santa Cruz, discussing : "We are Not Now Living the Dream: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Human Rights in the 21st Century" at the Vanderbilt University Law School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network The gift of sight, juggling for all it's worth and do you still want to see Vanderbilt's boys of summer? Watch the latest VUCast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Methodological Aspirations" Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture are hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Religion and Genomics: Sharing History, Sharing Healing" Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture are hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Heredity and Hope: Intersections of Genetics and Faith in the Clinic" Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture are hosted a conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Free Speech and Censorship at Work" Professor of Management and Sociology Bruce Barry discusses the limits of free speech in a society where people live out much of their lives under the control of large private institutions not bound by the Bill of Rights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: The Blair Signature Series presents The Blakemore Trio The Trio offers a unique program with Dmitri Shostakovich's one-movement Piano Trio No. 1; Chilean composer Alfonso Montecino's dramatic Trio, Op. 44; and one of the great masterpieces of all time, Schubert's soaring Trio in Bb Major. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Former commander of the U.S. Central Command John Abizaid The former commander of the U.S. Central Command spoke March 19 as part of Vanderbilt University's 2008 Impact Symposium. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Dr. Simon LeVay presents "Queer Science" Dr. Simon LeVay, renowned neuroscientist at the epicenter of the biological basis of homosexuality debate, presents "Queer Science," an overview of the modern research of the biology and neuroscience of sexual orientation as well as its social implications and political consequences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of March 30 An event bringing together an Irish rocker/social activist, R & B band from the seventies and eighties . . . and Nick Zeppos? Check out this week's VUCast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Political science study shows presidential candidates should pay more attention to their speaking skills Voters without strong ideological beliefs are swayed by presidential candidates with better oratorical skills, according to research by Assistant Professor of Political Science Christian Grose. In addition, highly educated voters are more likely than those with fewer years of schooling to be influenced by complex speech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Nashville in Our Living Room" concert series Student concert committee Nashville in Our Living Room hosted its first concert March 26 in the atrium, affectionately known on campus as "the living room," in the university's new Commons Center. The event featured Nashville-based singer/songwriters Sara Beck and Audrey Spillman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Global Justice Series: "Global Transgenerational Justice" The Responsibility and Global Justice Lecture Series, sponsored by the Philosophy Department, presents James Bohman, the Danforth Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Vanderbilt's Berry Lecture on science, philosophy and the environment Two speakers lead a discussion on science, philosophy and the environment at this year's Berry Lecture at Vanderbilt University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin on Performance Art and Digital Video Watch video of a March 24 lecture on performance art and digital video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Juggleville III: Catch-A-Sketch Juggleville III blends juggling, acrobatics and physical comedy. It features both student and professional performing artists, including collaborations with dancers, gymnasts and musicians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of March 23 Students go global with good works, it's not too late to catch the flu bug and a Commodore who's at the top of his game, check out this week's VUCast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Transcending Schizophrenia: From Vanderbilt Founder's Medalist to Hospital to Law Professor" Watch video Vanderbilt graduate Elyn Saks speaking at the Chancellor's Lecture Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live video: Juggleville III: Catch-a-Sketch Watch live video of juggling, acrobatics and physical comedy in Juggleville III: Catch-a-Sketch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live video: "Transcending Schizophrenia: From Vanderbilt Founder's Medalist to Hospital to Law Professor" Watch live video of the Chancellor's Lecture Series beginning at 6 p.m. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: David Loy on "Healing Ecology: A 'New' Spiritual Perspective on the Challenge of Consumerism" Buddhist scholar David Loy discussed how the Buddhist religious tradition offers a fresh spiritual perspective on consumerism and ecology during a lecture at Vanderbilt University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Human Rights: Agendas and Institutions" The Responsibility and Global Justice class presents David Reidy, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, speaking on "Human Rights: Agendas and Institutions." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: William E. Burchill: "The U.S. Nuclear Renaissance and the Challenges it Presents" William E. Burchill, vice president/president-elect of the American Nuclear Society, discusses the factors that are producing the renaissance of nuclear power in the United States, the current status of that renaissance, and the challenges that it presents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of March 16 She arrived near death. She left with a 'happier heart'. Meet an Iraqi child whose journey for life led her to Vanderbilt and ended by touching all she left behind. Watch that story in our latest VUCast for the week of March 16. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Dean Alice Hunt on "The Bible and Immigration" Alice Hunt, associate dean for academic affairs and assistant professor of Hebrew Bible, talks about what the Bible has to say about how immigrants are treated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Artist Roger Shimomura presents his "American Diary" Acclaimed painter and printmaker Roger Shimomura describes how his life, including a stay in an internment camp during World War II, has influenced his art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "The Floating Dungeon: A History of the Slave Ship." The annual John William Byrn Lecture presents Marcus Rediker, professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Street gangs conference to examine prevention policies Watch video of "Las Maras: Street Gangs and Security in Central America and the United States." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live video today: "The Floating Dungeon: A History of the Slave Ship." The annual John William Byrn Lecture presents Marcus Rediker, professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Vanderbilt celebrates selection of Nicholas S. Zeppos as chancellor Watch video of the celebration of the selection of Nicholas S. Zeppos as the university's eighth chancellor during a special open house Monday, March 10, at the Student Life Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Street gangs conference to examine prevention policies With dangerous youth gangs becoming increasingly visible in the United States and Central America, a March 11 conference will bring together leading experts to share information about policies to reduce the incidence and influence of gangs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Thinking Out of the Lunch Box: "Islam and Europe -- Sites of Conflict" Professor of History and Jewish Studies David Wasserstein discusses Islam and Europe at the March 5 lunch and learn series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast Special Report: Nicholas Zeppos named chancellor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Listen to media availability regarding Nicholas Zeppos selection as Vanderbilt's eighth chancellor Listen to the media availability regarding Nicholas Zeppos selection as Vanderbilt's eighth chancellor. This podcast includes remarks by Chancellor Zeppos, Board of Trust Chairman Martha Ingram and Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Michael Schoenfeld. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: "Citation and Its Discontents: On Not Naming Shakespeare" Professor Madhavi Menon explores the tension between ideas of sameness (homo) and difference (hetero) that structure historicist thinking about sexuality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of Feb. 24 From unlocking a piece of the autism puzzle to presidential politics to a White House look-a-like of the canine persuasion, we have it all. Check out VUCast for the week of Feb. 24. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free foreign film series continues this spring at Sarratt Cinema A new initiative is helping Vanderbilt students become global citizens while reaching out to members of the Nashville community interested in foreign films. The International Lens series is part of a resurgence of excellent film offerings at Sarratt Cinema and is free and open to the public. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "The Nightcap Series: Flute and Friends with Jane Kirchner" The Jan. 28 concert in the Blair School of Music's Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall features the flute in four beautiful chamber settings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: "On Writing with Catherine Wagner" Catherine Wagner is the author of two books of poems, "Miss America" and "Macular Hole," and co-editor of "Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of Feb. 17 From the Iraqi High Tribunal's Vanderbilt visit to Israeli folk dancing, VUCast goes global. And, was that an Owen School professor on Jay Leno? Check it out in our VUCast for the week of Feb. 17. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Watch video of Rigoberta Menchu, a Mayan Indian from Guatemala internationally recognized for her work for social justice and cultural reconciliation for indigenous people, speaking at Vanderbilt University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Ecology and Spirituality lecture with Dr. Matthew Sleeth Watch video of doctor-turned-environmental-activist Matthew Sleeth's. Feb. 6 talk, sponsored by the Ecology and Spirituality study group of Vanderbilt's Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peabody research confirms value of parents being excellent listeners during child's homework Research by two Peabody College professors shows that children learn the solution best to a problem when they explain it to a parent or other interested adult. Bethany Rittle-Johnson was the lead author for a study being published by the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New composting initiative nourishes Vanderbilt's arboretum While Vanderbilt has been recycling leaves for more than 20 years, a new initiative is transforming the university's massive pile of leaves into usable compost to nourish plants and trees on campus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: "Advancing Autism Diagnosis and Treatment in Mexico" Vanderbilt Kennedy Center presents a special lecture by Carlos Marcin, Ph.D., national director of Clinica Mexicana de Autismo (CLIMA). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of Feb. 10 Does mother really know best, and Vanderbilt won how many Emmys? All that and Belle the wonder dog in our VUCast for the week of Feb. 10. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going "green" to protect the environment now includes Vanderbilt computers Vanderbilt's Information Technology Services is taking several steps to help protect the environment including a "server virtualization" strategy with computers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: "Developmental Disabilities Grand Rounds: Double Jeopardy--Why It Is So Hard to Cope With Stress" Listen to a podcast of Bruce Compas, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Investigator, at Developmental Disabilities Grand Rounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of Feb. 3 Want to know why we love football? And, meet a student who can't forget the faces of AIDS. Watch our latest VUCast, for the week of Feb. 3. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Speakers reveal secrets behind literary awards Listen to a podcast of Robin Smith, Geisel Award committee member, and Dean Schneider, Newbery Award committee member, discussing their experiences on the committees and how and why books are chosen for these awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: "Compassionate Delivery of a New Diagnosis to New and Expectant Parents of Children with Down Syndrome" Listen to a podcast of Dr. Brian Skotko discussing the results of his research on how physicians deliver a prenatal and postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for Jan. 27TH. Will there ever be a blood test for colon cancer? And, meet Carlos, a kitty with attitude. Watch the latest VUCast for the week of Jan. 27th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Students, Cal Turner official explain Project Pyramid Listen to students who traveled to India in 2007 as part of a Vanderbilt program to alleviate poverty. Graham Reside, executive director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions, speaks and introduces several students who reflect on the Project Pyramid program that brought together the divinity and business schools at Vanderbilt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Italian film expert: Tarantino career after Pulp Fiction a disappointment Listen to Luca Barattoni, lecturer of Italian at Clemson University, speak on "Fernando Di Leo and the Italian Crime Thriller Genre of the '70s: Its Influence on Quentin Tarantino and its Recent Developments." The lecture on Jan. 24, 2008, was part of the International Lens foreign film series at Vanderbilt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Vive la Quintette!" -- The Blair Woodwind Quintet The WW5 presents its first-ever all-French program, featuring Andre Caplet's Quintette for Piano and Winds as the pièce de resistance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vanderbilt's green initiatives include university's computers Information Technology Services is using a "server virtualization" strategy to reduce dramatically the energy demands of Vanderbilt's 16,000 computers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolling seminar to Iowa caucuses provided unique learning opportunity A select group of Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff experienced firsthand a pivotal part of the 2008 presidential campaign when they traveled by bus to the Iowa caucuses and volunteered for various candidates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StudentVU: Holiday tradition Take a wreath, throw in some icing and gingerbread, and it must be holiday time at Vanderbilt. StudentVU Vloggers Dustin Lynn and Gaby Roman record this Peabody tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: Remembering 2007 It was a year of achievements, victories and change. Watch this special holiday VUCast, as we stroll down memory lane. Warning: Kleenex might be required. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiday Tradition Take a wreath, throw in some icing and gingerbread, and it must be holiday time at Vanderbilt. StudentVU Vloggers Dustin Lynn and Gaby Roman record this Peabody tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nashville Is Thinking of living, working or going to school in Nashville? Watch this video to find out more about a city that is so much more than country music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Stellar Conversation with scientist, engineer and astronaut Jan Davis Jan Davis, scientist, engineer and astronaut talks with Rick Chappell, director of Dyer Observatory. Dr. Davis is a veteran of three space shuttle flights, and a proponent of future space exploration. Her upbringing in the space town of Huntsville, Alabama launched her on a career in science, one which she hopes students, especially young women, will choose to emulate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for Dec. 16 Want to make sure you have a jolly holiday? What happens when an extreme makeover collides with Mr. Commodore? And, what does the 'Batman Building' have in common with gingerbread? Get the answers to those burning questions, in this holiday VUCast for the week of Dec. 16. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Finding their passion Whether it's analyzing core samples from Antarctica or working on a possible revolutionary biomedical device, Vanderbilt undergraduates take advantage of numerous opportunities to conduct hands-on research. As our VUCast crew discovered, it's a journey that ultimately helps many students find their passion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Center for the Americas helps recognize accomplishments of local Hispanic community Vanderbilt students have played an integral role in one of the programs for area Hispanics that was highlighted at a Dec. 10 reception hosted by the Center for the Americas. Many students who want to improve their Spanish have volunteered for Conversemos -- a Spanish/English language exchange program offered by Conexion Americas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for Dec. 9 Need a new incentive to quit smoking and who joined forces with a rock group for a good cause? Find out on the latest VUCast for the week of Dec. 9. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Stellar Conversation with Dr. Bill Sheehan Rick Chappell, director of Dyer Observatory, talks with Bill Sheehan on the anniversary of what would have been E.E. Barnard's 150th birthday. Dr. Sheehan is the author of "The Immortal Fire Within," the definitive biography on Barnard who is one of the world's most famous astronomers. Dr. Sheehan examines Barnard's life--his humble beginnings, his historic discoveries, his time at Vanderbilt and his famous photographs of the Milky Way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for Dec. 2 From a gadget guru's nirvana to a holiday gift that keeps on giving to YouTube Vandy style, watch the latest on VUCast for the week of Dec. 2. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vanderbilt Virtual School forms partnership with tiny Alabama town to make possible learning opportunities never available there before The Vanderbilt Virtual School is helping students in a tiny, rural Alabama town access learning opportunities not offered to students there in the past. Vanderbilt formed a partnership with Thomasville, Ala., and state and federal lawmakers to win more than $200,000 in federal funds to be used for videoconferencing equipment for distance learning, according to Patsy Partin, director of the Virtual School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Myths about acceleration in gifted education Listen to a lecture by Vanderbilt Peabody College Dean Camilla Benbow and Professor of Psychology David Lubinski on "Myths About Acceleration in Gifted Education." The Nov. 5, 2007, lecture at the Nashville Public Library was part of the Julian Stanley Lecture Series on gifted children hosted by the Vanderbilt Programs for Talented Youth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Noted science writer discusses reporting on nuclear power, defense technology, physics, geology Listen to a podcast from Vanderbilt's Writing Studio of a public lecture by Sally Adee, a science writer who lives in Baltimore, Md., and specializes in reporting on geology, solid-state physics, nuclear energy and defense technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: "An Insider's View of U.S. - European Union Relations: What Should the Next Administration Expect?" Listen to State Department veteran Charles Skinner discussing U.S. - European Relations at Vanderbilt University on Nov. 14, 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Poet Kate Light reads from her work Kate Light gave a reading on Nov. 13, 2007, in Buttrick Hall as part of the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program. This podcast includes selections from her three books - Gravity's Dream, Open Slowly and Falling Bodies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Federal research compliance: why are they doing this to us?!? Listen to a Nov. 11, 2007, forum with Vanderbilt administrators and compliance officers about compliance with federal regulations and what university faculty and staff need to know about this critical and complex issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for the week of Nov. 10 From the CIA to reliving football magic, watch VUCast for the week of Nov. 10. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: FCC's Deborah Tate speaks on 'The Work of the FCC and the Music Industry" Listen to a podcast of a Nov. 1, 2007, lecture by Federal Communications Commissioner Deborah Tate at Vanderbilt University on the music industry and the FCC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social skills vital to children's academic success, says Peabody researcher A Peabody College professor is the co-author of a new book that identifies the top 10 social skills that students need to succeed in the classroom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writer Robin Lippincott reads from novel In the Meantime Listen to writer Robin Lippincott read from his new novel In the Meantime, which tracks the intertwined lives of three friends for six decades. Lippincott is also the author of Mr. Dalloway. The reading was part of the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program at Vanderbilt University. It was recorded on Oct. 31, 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Admission insider's guide to getting into college; Vanderbilt's associate provost for enrollment answers real-life questions and gives practical advice Douglas Christiansen is Vanderbilt University's associate provost for enrollment and dean of admissions. He's spent the last 20 years in admissions leadership roles in both public and private universities. Now he's using his expertise to give students practical advice on what they can do to get into the right college, in hopes of clearing some of the mystery and misconceptions surrounding the admissions process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Charles S. Maier of Harvard delivers 2007 Harry C. Howard Lecture Hear Charles S. Maier, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, speak on "The Space of Nations: Territory and History Before Globalization." The lecture was the 2007 Harry C. Howard Lecture at Vanderbilt University and was delivered on Oct. 29, 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Coffee's far-reaching impact - from personal to global - explored at conference Coffee aficionados heard varying perspectives and sampled different roasts of their favorite wake-up beverage at an Oct. 26 conference organized by the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies. Listen to six experts from a variety of disciplines discuss the importance of coffee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "The Iraq Genocide: Personal Perspectives and Legal Residue" Watch video of Vanderbilt law professor Michael Newton discussing "The Iraq Genocide: Personal Perspectives and Legal Residue." The lecture is part of the university's 30th annual Holocaust Lecture Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of Oct. 26 From fearful faces to free flicks, learn all about it in our latest VUCast this Halloween week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vanderbilt political scientist looks to modern presidents for lessons on leadership Erwin Hargrove, a professor of political science, emeritus, has written a new book that explores the effectiveness of the eight most recent presidents, including George W. Bush. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Tamra Stambaugh discusses perfectionism in gifted children Listen to a podcast of Tamra Stambaugh from the College of William and Mary's Center for Gifted Education discussing common causes of perfectionism in gifted children and strategies to help deal with this tendency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Interim Chancellor Zeppos gives a university update to 'Quinqs' Listen to an address by Interim Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos to 2007's Quinq Class - the graduates of 1957 - and other alumni as part of the 2007 Reunion / Homecoming events Oct. 12. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: U of P professor reflects on the Jena 6 and Hannah Arendt Listen to philosopher Anita Allen, the Henry L. Silverman Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, speak on "The White-Only Shade Tree: Moral Reflections of Integration Now and Then." Allen addressed the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers on Oct. 19, 2007, at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Forum on God, Economy and Poverty Listen to a podcast of a forum on God, Economy and Poverty sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for the Study of Religion and Culture Oct. 17. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast: News from Vanderbilt's news network for week of Oct. 19 How does your brain think about crime and does a cockroach conduct its business better in the morning or night? We'll give you the answers on the latest VUCast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VUCast News Network From the crisis in Darfur to the Nobel Peace Prize to the social skills needed for success, watch our latest newscast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Vanderbilt all-star creative writing faculty gives reading Hear five of the creative writing faculty of the English Department of Vanderbilt read from their work. Beth Bachmann starts off with some poems, followed by Tony Earley with an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Blue Star, Lorraine Lopez with a new short story, Alice Randall with unpublished work from her upcoming novel and Mark Jarman reading from his poetry book Epistles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Barsky speaks about Chomsky Hear Robert Barsky, professor of French and comparative literature and author of two books about political dissenter and linguist Noam Chomsky, speak about his new book "The Chomsky Effect: A Catalyst for Social Justice Beyond the Ivory Tower." The lecture was recorded on Oct. 11, 2007, at Vanderbilt Law School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |