Releases
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Two juniors honored as 2003 Truman Scholars
Juniors Jessica Heaven and Ashley Amber Wallin are among 76 students selected from across the nation as the 2003 Harry S. Truman Scholars. They were chosen on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood of making a difference, and are the first Vanderbilt students to receive the honor in more than a decade. Read MoreApr 11, 2003
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Interviews offer unprecedented look into the world and words of the new white nationalism
Carol M. Swain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, says its time for political and religious leaders in America to wake up to the notion that white nationalism is seeking to go mainstream and to take the threats the movement poses seriously. Read MoreApr 11, 2003
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Rhodes, Vanderbilt announce collaboration to benefit students, faculty
Rhodes College and Vanderbilt University today announced an alliance that will increase time- and cost-efficiencies for Rhodes students seeking graduate education, enhance research options for faculty and open the door for other innovative partnerships that will benefit both schools. Read MoreApr 10, 2003
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VUSM jumps two slots in U.S. News rankings
The Vanderbilt School of Medicine is well on its way to being in the top 10 medical schools by 2010, jumping two slots to 14th in the nation of the 125 accredited medical schools. Read MoreApr 10, 2003
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External funding for Vanderbilt research jumps to $286 million
The amount of external funding that Vanderbilt University researchers received last year from peer-reviewed contracts and grants jumped by a dramatic 31 percent to reach an all-time high of $285.8 million. Read MoreApr 8, 2003
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Vanderbilts Peabody College receives highest ever U.S. News ranking
Peabody College at Vanderbilt University is ranked 4th among the nation's graduate programs in education in the latest "U.S. News & World Report" listing of the nation's leading graduate and professional schools. The placement represents a three-spot jump in last year's ranking and is the school's highest "U.S. News" ranking ever. Read MoreApr 4, 2003
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Vanderbilt-Ingram begins enrolling current, former smokers in National Lung Cancer Screening Trial
Current and former smokers are needed for a new study to determine if screening people with either spiral computerized tomography (CT) or chest X-ray before they have symptoms can reduce deaths from lung cancer. Read MoreApr 2, 2003
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Vanderbilt Child and Family Policy Center to assist foster teens awarded Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative grant
The Vanderbilt Child and Family Policy Center is creating a national model program to help teens in state custody who are aging out of foster care, thanks to a $400,000 grant from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative. Read MoreApr 2, 2003
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Nashville celebrates Week of the Young Child
April 6-13, is a series of events held to highlight the growing health, educational and social concerns faced by young children and their parents in Nashville and to facilitate an informative campaign to better the lives of the children through advocacy and education. Read MoreApr 2, 2003
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Vanderbilt community band to perform free concert for Nashville neighbors
Springtime means warmer weather and the return of outdoor community gatherings, and Vanderbilt Universitys Community Concert Band plans to usher in the season with an afternoon of music in the park. Read MoreApr 1, 2003
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear University of Michigan affirmative action case today
Vanderbilt and four other leading private universities filed an amicus curiae brief in the case being heard today by the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the admissions policies of University of Michigan and its law school.Click the headline for more information and a .pdf of the brief. Read MoreApr 1, 2003
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Wayne S. Hyatt honored as distinguished alumnus at Vanderbilt Law School; Ted LaRoche cited for distinguished service
Atlanta attorney Wayne S. Hyatt has been named the 2003 Distinguished Alumnus of the Vanderbilt University Law School. Read MoreMar 28, 2003
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Post-Saddam Iraq examined by adviser to transitional Iraqi parliament
Kanan Makiya presents "The United States and Post-Saddam Iraq" on Wednesday, April 2, at 4:10 p.m. in Room 114 Furman Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. Makiya is an adviser for the Iraqi National Congress. Read MoreMar 28, 2003
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Expert on understanding reading through neuroimaging to speak March 27
Ken Pugh, a scientist renowned for his research on language organization and the neurobiology of reading, reading disabilities and attention deficit disorder, will speak at a free public lecture Thursday, March 27, at Vanderbilt Universitys John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read MoreMar 26, 2003
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Crisis of marriage revealed in OKeeffe, Hopper art
Despite the popular notion that the three decades between the two world wars were a period of marital and family stability, it was a difficult and unsettling time for many middle-class Americans, says a Vanderbilt professor. Read MoreMar 26, 2003
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Parker receives nuclear waste management lifetime achievement award
Vanderbilt Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Frank L. Parker has received the 2003 Wendell D. Weart Lifetime Achievement in Nuclear Waste Management Award. Read MoreMar 25, 2003
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Political leadership in an increasingly diverse America topic for next (Lunch) box talk
A strong need for courageous leadership at a time of profound racial and ethnic changes in America is the topic for the next installment of the Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box series on April 2. Read MoreMar 25, 2003
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Vanderbilt international scholars among presenters at EU conference
The deepening split between the United States and some of its traditional European allies over the Iraqi crisis is likely to dominate a number of sessions at the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Eighth Biennial International Conference, scheduled March 27-29 at the Hilton Suites in downtown Nashville. Vanderbilt University is serving as a local host for the conference, which is expected to draw about 500 scholars, government officials and others interested in issues related to the European Union. Read MoreMar 20, 2003
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Vanderbilt professor selected as inaugural Fulbright American history chair
Vanderbilt University Professor Don H. Doyle has been selected as the inaugural Fulbright chair in American history, a post established by the Brazil Fulbright Commission. Read MoreMar 20, 2003
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Nationally recognized seminar designed to combat feminine beauty ideal coming to Vanderbilt University
I Am Beautiful, a nationally recognized seminar that counters the obsession with feminine thinness will come to Vanderbilt Universitys Sarratt Cinema Monday, March 24, at 7 p.m. Read MoreMar 20, 2003