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Vanderbilt University researchers discovered a possible reason why people cite anxiety as a reason they use marijuana - the brain absorbs the drug through the same receptors that regulate fight-or-flight responses.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has launched its own investigation into the alleged abuse of Prince Bradley, a 24-year-old man with intellectual disabilities whose beating was captured on a cellphone video obtained by The Tennessean.

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Edgehill Village, a popular mixed-use development located near Music Row and Vanderbilt University, has been sold for $9.2 million.

A single room couldn't contain all the folding chairs at A Room of One's Own Wednesday night, as Lorrie Moore prepared to read from her new book, Bark .

Evelyn Patterson, an assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, speaks at OSU March 6. Credit: Logan Hickman / Lantern photographer For individuals released after time in prison, one Vanderbilt University professor said there is no such thing as being completely free.

A media coalition led by The Tennessean argued in a new court filing that the text messages and other documents it's seeking in a Vanderbilt University rape case are clearly public records that no law or policy can shield from public view.

Last summer Pope Francis called for the development of a profound theology of women in the Church and St. Mary's Academy has risen to that challenge.

There's a lot of focus these days on football at Vanderbilt. We like football. Even so, it might be cool to train a spotlight for a moment on other important campus matters.

An international group led by Vanderbilt University researchers has found cannabinoid receptors, through which marijuana exerts its effects, in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response.

If you want to use e-cigarettes at Vanderbilt University these days, you'll need to go to a designated smoking area.

Meaghan Brewington was critically hurt in the crash February 21st in Westmoreland.

Learning and memory, integrative medicine and the Salem witch hunts are some the spring 2014 class offerings available through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt University.

Vanderbilt University assistant football coach Vavae Tata, who was suspended last month after he was charged with DUI, pleaded guilty to the DUI charge this morning.

Despite recent advances in various chemotherapeutic regimens and in the development of targeted therapies, metastatic pancreatic cancer remains highly resistant to chemotherapy."

Readers of all ages are invited to join the reading movement this month. To get people going, almost 1,000 free copies of Fowler's book have been left on city buses, at city parks and community centers, in restaurants, gyms, shops and coffee houses throughout the county.

A newly-hired and now suspended Vanderbilt University assistant football coach is due in court Wednesday following a DUI arrest.

Vanderbilt University has been awarded a cooperative agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Army Research Office, worth up to $16.5 million over five years, to study toxic agents' effect on human cells.

A Florida man has died after receiving a bite from a brown recluse - a venomous spider typically found in the American Midwest, including Indiana.

Through a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of State, a delegation of seven Wesleyan College and five Vanderbilt University faculty and staff members were scheduled to travel to Guangzhou, China, on Friday to present a week’s worth of lectures at the schools’ American Cultural Centers at Guangzhou University and Sun Yat-sen University, ... (more)