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Keivan
Stassun delivered testimony to the U.S. House of
Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology March 16
on successfully recruiting underrepresented minorities and
women into the critical professions of science, technology,
engineering and mathematics.
Join us
for a chance to say good luck to the women’s basketball team
as they head to the NCAA Tournament. Commodore fans, you are
invited to join us at 1:45 p.m. Friday, March 19, to help send
off the Commodores
James
Crowe Jr. and Ellen Fanning have been elected to fellowship in
the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership
group within the American Society for Microbiology, the
world’s oldest and largest life science
organization.
Futurity.org, an
online university news channel launched in part by Vanderbilt
and targeted to members of the public interested in basic
research, has expanded beyond its North American base to
include science news from leading British
universities.
Amelia
Winger-Bearskin, assistant professor of art, is offering
individualized art performances designed to increase the
interactivity of the art-going
experience.
Members
of the Vanderbilt community mourning the death of senior
Dorothy “Dorie” Legros are invited to share their reflections
in Benton Chapel. A campus memorial service is also being
planned.
The
emerging field of trauma studies was the focus of the 2008-09
Warren Center Fellows at Vanderbilt. The fellows will present
their findings at the symposium “Trauma: Memory, the Body and
the Arts” March 18-20.
Rick
Perlstein, an author and political journalist who has written
extensively about the history of conservatism in modern
America, will speak on “Whatever Happened to Hope: Why Barack
Obama Cannot Become a Transformational President” on March
22.
David
Jewitt, a professor, astronomer and comet expert, will give a
free public talk about “Primordial Ice Reservoirs of the Solar
System” and how much we know – and don’t know – about them on
March 25.
Juggling,
acrobatics and physical comedy are blended in Juggleville
V: The King of
Clubs, set for April 2-3 at the Martha Rivers
Ingram Center for the Performing Arts.
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