Year: 2002

A comprehensive Vanderbilt University study in the wake of the breaking Enron scandal puts a $37.1 million pricetag on the loss of consumer confidence in companies audited by Arthur Andersen, tied directly to their choice of auditors. Read More

The $28 billion in punitive damages awarded to a smoker by a California jury earlier this month will be among the controversial and escalating awards addressed in a panel discussion on “Punitive Damages: Present and Future” at the Vanderbilt University Law School on Nov. 6. Read More

Given the chance, America’s households would spend more of their own money to reduce serious crimes—such as burglary, sexual assault and armed robbery—in their neighborhoods. Read More

Kevin A. Myatt has been named chief human resource officer at Vanderbilt University effective Jan.1, 2003, Vice Chancellor for Administration and Chief Financial Officer Lauren J. Brisky announced today. Read More

Activists on two sides of the racial divide will come together at Vanderbilt University Law School on Nov. 5 to debate the future of American race relations. Read More

Acclaimed social psychologist and New York University professor Carol Gilligan will discuss “Teaching and Learning in a Different Voice” on Monday, Nov. 11, at 6 p.m. in Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. Read More

James M. Lawson, a Vanderbilt University Divinity School alumnus who led the sit-ins at Nashville’s segregated lunch counters and had a profound effect on Vanderbilt’s national identity, is the recipient of the 2002 Walter R. Murray Jr. Distinguished Alumnus Award. Read More

A biblical perspective on environmental stewardship will be presented at a lunch-time seminar featuring Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Douglas Meeks, Cal Turner Chancellor’s Professor of Wesleyan Studies, Nov. 4, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Scarritt Bennett Center’s Ogborn House. Read More

This month, emerging leaders from across the Tennessee Valley Authority began a nine-month customized business curriculum on 21st century leadership concepts and principles at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management. The program is designed to prepare them for greater leadership responsibilities within the corporation. Read More

Learn how to launch a venture, build it to profitability and take it public or sell it for the right price at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management Entrepreneurship Center‘s annual conference on Oct. 25. Read More

Ask any history teacher about the challenge of making decades-old events relevant to today’s students, and you’re likely to get an earful. If the events are those that made up the Holocaust of the 1940s, the challenge is even more daunting. Read More

Faculty members from Vanderbilt University, Fisk University, Meharry Medical College and Tennessee State University have joined together to form a research circle on “Race and Wealth Disparity in 21st Century America.” The products of the two-year collaborative program will include a public lecture series, the first set for Nov. 7, and a set of edited teaching materials on how various disciplines look at race and wealth disparity in the United States. Read More

Today, it seems as if all the devices we use are becoming “smart.” Read More

Edcouch-Elsa – a documentary film that shows how a dedicated teacher’s challenge to his students opened the doors from a South Texas border town to Ivy League colleges – will be shown at Vanderbilt University Sunday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m. in the Law School’s Flynn Auditorium. Read More

Bill Ivey, Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), has been named program facilitator for the executive education program Leadership Music. Read More

Students in more than 30 Metro Schools will be linked to a variety of community and Vanderbilt leaders through a series of interactive videoconferences hosted by the Vanderbilt Virtual School. “We are focusing on the themes of authors, democracy and careers as we strive to make the videoconferences educational and engaging for these K-12 students,” said Jan Zanetis, director of the Vanderbilt Virtual School. Read More

Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of the acclaimed autobiography An Unquiet Mind, will discuss “A Life in Moods: Personal and Professional Perspectives on Mental Illness” on Thursday, Oct. 17, at Vanderbilt. The lecture begins at 4:15 p.m. in Room 103 of Wilson Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Artur Davis, a Birmingham attorney who ousted a veteran congressman in a race that received national attention because of its connection to Middle Eastern politics, will speak at 4:10 p.m. Oct. 16 at Vanderbilt University on “Reviving the Democratic Party in the South: A Progressive Strategy.” Davis’ talk, which is free and open to the public, will be in Wilson Hall, Room 126. A reception will follow. Read More

Lawrence Krauss, professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, will discuss “Nonsense, Non-Science and Science: From Aliens to Creationism” on Monday, Oct. 14, at 6 p.m. in Turner Hall at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. The event is free and open to the public. A reception with Krauss precedes the lecture at 5 p.m. Read More

Teachers and community volunteers will visit the homes of North Nashville fifth- and ninth-graders from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 12, to encourage them to join Imagine College, formerly Project GRAD Nashville. Read More