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VUCast for 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.

Explore Nashville: Vanderbilt's Hometown

Midsouth Emmy-Winning Video
Students from four Nashville universities boarded buses last January to retrace history with many of the original Freedom Riders from the 1960s. Watch this rolling history lesson, and hear first-hand from the civil rights leaders.

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The Associated Press: Ancient seaweed tells of earliest Americans
Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas. Tom Dillehay, chair of anthropology, is the lead archeologist on the study. The story has received widespread coverage, and appears in The Boston Globe and USA Today, among others. The Christian Science Monitor and National Geographic also covered the story.

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