Vanderbilt University News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Gregory Barnes, M.D., Ph.D., is the inaugural permanent director of the University of Louisville Autism Center.

Newswise - Vanderbilt University's Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Tennessee Department of Education are partnering to bring a novel intervention program to families of young children with autism in Middle Tennessee.

This summer, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art will host an exhibition entitled Andy Warhol's Flowers, featuring nearly a dozen screen prints from the original Flowers series as well as paintings, studio photographs, and the artist's audacious floral proposal for the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington.

We need to get rid of bad teachers and reward and keep the good ones, says Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

One person was stabbed at a Springfield Walmart Monday. It happened at the retailer located at 3360 Tom Austin Highway.

At a Dowling College campus on Long Island's south shore, a fleet of unused shuttle buses sits in an otherwise empty parking lot.

Meet Alaric Blair, a 47-year-old elementary school teacher from Calumet City, Ill.

Maureen Tobin Stanley, associate professor of Spanish language, literature, and culture at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, spoke at Vanderbilt University Oct. 23 as part of the Holocaust Lecture Series.

Dr. Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank and former Vice President Annette Lu discussed their experiences in working for equal rights and equal opportunities for women in business and society during a dialogue Sunday evening in the Council Chamber of the Taipei City Council.

Salt-tolerant rice as well as flexible barriers to keep salty water away and later to allow sediment in could mitigate flooding, which is expected to climb globally With the GangesBrahmaputra delta sinking, the race is on to protect millions of people from future flooding.

Nashville can expect to witness a new record-high sales price for an apartment complex very soon - potentially by the end of this month.

Bill Funk had one question to ask students who attended the Presidential Search Student Forum: "Why did you choose Florida State?" The answers varied from financial reasons to geographic location to academic standing to cultural reasons.

A two-year-old child was transported to the hospital Friday after nearly drowning in a pool.

ATHENA, the Advanced Tissue-engineered Human Ectypal Network Analyzer project team, is developing four human organ constructs, the liver, heart, lung and kidney, which are based on a miniaturized platform.

In 1972, a young violinist named Christian Teal arrived in Nashville to begin teaching at a small music school called Blair Academy.

Sims will appear at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University on April 11, with a book signing at 6 p.m. and a free public address at 7 p.m. "In the decades since first encountering Walden in my late teens, I had often glimpsed Thoreau as the bearded sage of literature, natural history, or civil liberties," writes Michael Sims.

Boland will appear at 7 p.m April 10 in Buttrick Hall at Vanderbilt University as part of the Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series.

In the wake of Cyclone Aila in 2009, swollen seas washed over the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers.

"I am extremely honored to be able to serve as president of the AACR, the largest cancer research organization in the world," Arteaga said.

Almost 30 years before the movie Gravity hit the silver screen, Wang was exploring science in space and made a micro-gravity discovery that's now a fundamental part of his work on an implantable patch that would encapsulate islet cells and allow people with diabetes to begin making their own insulin again.