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Too much attention is being given to "overnight polls" as if they are valid indicators of public opinion in the 2000 presidential race, according to a political scientist.

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Vanderbilt is helping to ensure that the Holocaust is not forgotten by sponsoring a two-and-a-half-week lecture series that remembers this grim period in history. This year the focus is on the arts.

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Dr. Raymond DuBois, associate director of cancer prevention at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been elected to membership in the Royal College of Physicians, the oldest medical organization in the United Kingdom and one of the oldest in the world.

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More than a quarter of the Tennessee children in TennCare have a serious emotional disorder -- that's two to three times higher than state estimates -- according to a Vanderbilt University study.

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If history is any indication, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan's decision to slow the speculative boom in the stock market by raising interest rates could do more harm than good, according to a Vanderbilt University professor.

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An enzyme implicated in colon cancer may also play a role in other cancers by promoting development of blood vessels to feed tumors, a Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center scientist and his colleagues report.

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Companies pinning their turn-around hopes on economic profit plans to improve operating performance are likely to find they would have done just as well with their existing compensation plans, according to a study by Vanderbilt University professors.

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A breakup of Microsoft may not be the panacea that some think it would be, says Vanderbilt Professor Luke Froeb, a former staff economist in the antitrust division of the Department of Justice.

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While the fall of Saigon was a low point in American history, it helped set in motion the collapse of the Soviet Union 15 years later, according to Vanderbilt historian Thomas Schwartz.

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Lynn Matrisian has been named the first chair of the Cancer Biology Department at Vanderbilt University, the first new basic science department at the medical school in 45 years.

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If you are trying to favorably impress a member of the opposite sex, how you laugh could play an important role in whether you are successful, according to a Vanderbilt University researcher.

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Small businesses need to be prepared to face the "challenge of change" as they enter the 21st century, according to a study headed by a Vanderbilt University professor.

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Vanderbilt University will host a historic, large-scale gathering of prose and poetry writers April 6-8 to examine the state of Southern literature; "A Millennial Gathering of the Writers of the New South" will feature 46 of the top names in modern Southern writing.

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While most college students head for the surf this spring break, Vanderbilt University students will be working with a program that provides resources and support for prostitutes who want to leave the streets and on several other projects.

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Business is the most dominant social organizing force in the world today and, as such, it owes significant obligations to society, according to a Vanderbilt University professor.

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Sitting with an Arab conversation partner, it is important to avoid exposing the sole of one's shoe, as that is perceived as an insult.

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As many young blacks view the Bible as having little relevance to their lives, a new publication has been designed to strengthen younger generations' understanding of the link between black history and scriptures.

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The winners of the 2000 presidential primaries may be those who are best at using character as a political resource, according to the author of a book on presidential leadership.

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Students who want to check out their e-mail, see what the stock market is doing, or download research from the Internet will be able to do so anywhere on the Owen Graduate School of Management campus.

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Scientists from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have been selected to participate in the National Cancer Institute's new Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium. Their selection will suppport work in developing models of breast, prostate, colon, and pancreatic cancers.

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In the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers report that a reduction in expression of a receptor for transforming growth factor beta (TGFb) occurs early in the progression from hyperplasia to malignancy in some women.

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In a recent survey of B-school faculty and MBA students, telemarketing was rated as one of the worst business innovations of the 20th Century. The computer led all others as the best invention of the last 100 years.

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The number of high school graduates has risen from a little more than one out of 100 students to some four out of five in the past 100 years. But the American century has seen its share of successes and failures in education, according to faculty at Vanderbilt Universityís Peabody College of education and human development.

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The National Cancer Institute has awarded more than $1 million to support a new partnership between Meharry Medical College and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center to conduct collaborative research and patient care initiatives to help close the racial gap in cancer incidence and death.

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Yoon-Shin Kim, a Korean "comfort woman" during World War II, will speak at Vanderbilt University Nov. 12 at 3:45 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema.

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"Making and Evoking Memory" is the theme of Vanderbilt Universityís 1999 Holocaust Lecture Series. Programs will focus on ways the Holocaust is memorialized collectively and individually. The series, in its 22nd year, is the longest-running University series on the Holocaust in the country.

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Vanderbilt University is offering a media fellowship that will explore the bold opportunities and unique challenges of the educational technology revolution. The program will engage journalists, teachers, and Vanderbilt faculty in discussions about educational technology as a potentially powerful, effective tool that enhances learning.

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A young girl's relationship with her family, especially with her father, may influence at what age she enters puberty, according to researchers. Girls with close, supportive relationships with their parents tend to develop later, while girls with cold or distant relationships with their parents develop at an earlier age.

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People who routinely injure themselves may do so in order to stimulate a release of feel-good chemicals in the brain, and most of those sufferers can now be helped with an innovative combination of two therapies, according to a Vanderbilt researcher.

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A sweeping proposal now before the American Bar Association (ABA) that would allow lawyers to form partnerships and share fees with non-lawyers is dangerous and risky in its present form.

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Young children with learning disabilities who have trouble in reading, writing and math often carry these deficienies into adulthood unless teachers intervene with special programs. Now investigators at Vanderbilt University are taking a hard look at intervention programs for children with disabilities in the primary grades.

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The National Cancer Institute has awarded a multi-disciplinary group of scientists in the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center a major grant to learn more precisely how aspirin and similar drugs may play a role in preventing colon cancer.

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Summer is hot time for adults and children to read together, according a children's literacy expert at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of education and human development.

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Magnet schools, developed in the 1970s as an alternative to mandatory busing, have achieved much of what they were designed to do but have also contributed to segregation by social class and a dimishment of communities, Vanderbilt researchers say.

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New research shows that too many carbohydrates in a diet suppresses the body's ability to burn fat, according to Vanderbilt University researchers.

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Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt urged the Classes of 1999 to commit themselves to "enlightenment" in the form of knowledge, new ideas and service to others. In his farewell remarks during Commencement ceremonies on May 14, Wyatt described the shared sense of community, purpose and vision that characterizes a Vanderbilt education.

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Scientists have known for years that to perceive figures against a busy background, human vision ues color, brightness and direction of motion. But startling new findings by a Vanderbilt researcher indicate that the human brain can also use the precise timing of subtle visual changes to group elemnents into objects -- like when some band members on a football field suddently turn and march in a different direction than the rest, spelling out a school's letters.

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A Vanderbilt graduate, a former minor league baseball player, applied real world experience to an academic environment. The result: Baseball Stat Man, software with a very practical real world application.

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James Auer, an expert on U.S.-japanese defense relations, is available to discuss ramifications of the May 3 meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and President Clinton.

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The family of the late businessman and philanthropist Bronson Ingram, founder of Ingram Industries Inc., has pledged $56 million to the Vanderbilt University Cancer Center to fight the disease that killed Ingram in 1995.

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Research has shown that minority children with special needs often fare better in classrooms with teachers of color, but diverse special education teachers in the United States are in tragically short supply. A Vanderbilt-based program, the Alliance Project, is changing that.

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While children under age 18 make up about 25 percent of our population, their concerns are rarely represented. And though we often talk about how much we love them, they are frequently overlooked, says a Vanderbilt University Divinity School professor who intends to change the way children are viewed in society, theology and the church.

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Vanderbilt University's award-winning Little Planet Literacy Series combines CD-ROM technology with old-fashioned storytelling to help at-risk children learn to read.

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With Oscar nominations for the film "Shakespeare in Love" and upcoming remakes of other Shakespearean works - "Hamlet," "Love's Labours Lost" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," to name a few - William Shakespeare seems to be more popular than ever. Why?

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Spring break is a time when thousands of students flock to the beaches. The volatile mix of alcohol, anonymity, sex and partying often results in someone getting hurt. A Vanderbilt University expert offers tips for a healthy spring break.

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While most college students head for the surf and sand this spring break, more than 300 Vanderbilt students will spend their week in volunteering at sites around the country and in Peru, Mexico and Canada through a program called alternative spring break.

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Gender is clearly no longer a liability for women considering a run for Congress, according to a Vanderbilt doctoral student who is researching the competitiveness of women candidates in the House of Representatives.

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An automobile engine with 30 percent greater fuel efficiency than current models but that also meets U.S. emission standards is the goal of a Vanderbilt University engineer who is using advanced laser technology to help develop the next generation of automobile engines.

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A new program housed in the Vanderbilt-Bill Wilkerson Center and the Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development at Vanderbilt University helps children who lag behind their peers in talking.

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With Valentine's Day approaching, love is in the air. It's also in the brain, more deeply ingrained than language itself. Romantic love - i.e., the act of falling love, not to be confused with that other basic instinct, lust - is a primal emotion as basic as fear, according to a Vanderbilt University researcher.