Year: 2003

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one step closer to changing the way doctors look at coronary arteries. Read More

A reorganization of the offices that oversee the commercialization of Vanderbilt research discoveries and inventions will result in a more streamlined process for the transfer of new technologies to the marketplace, according to a plan announced today by University officials. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been ranked No. 3 worldwide in enrollment for an international trial testing the efficacy of a new immunosuppressant drug for use in heart transplant patients. Read More

Parents and students seeking active ways to enjoy the long, hot summer can find a number of options online in the Directory of Out-of-School Activities. Read More

Mark Cohen has been appointed senior associate dean at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, effective July 1. Read More

Hospital patients who face difficult decisions sometimes turn to a chaplain or pastor and ask, "What should I do?" or "Why is this happening to me?" Read More

Vanderbilt's first robotic surgical procedure was performed in mid May by Dr. Joseph A. Smith Jr., William L. Bray Professor and Chair of Urologic Surgery. Smith used VUMC's new $1 million-plus Da Vinci Surgical System, built by Intuitive Surgical, to perform a radical prostatectomy. Read More

Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler announced that John S. McClure will lead one of the most unique programs in the country for educating and placing future professors of preaching and worship the beginning with the fall semester. Read More

Vanderbilt and Meharry have been collaborating with NIH for several years on research involving HIV/AIDS, which is spread primarily by sexual contact and intravenous drug use. The goal of the new grant is to encourage further collaboration between the schools, and train new investigators to advance AIDS treatment and prevention. Read More

Arguments for and against genetically altering plants, fruits and vegetables continue. Read More

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a grant establishing the Vanderbilt University Sloan Center for Internet Retailing at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Directors of publicly traded companies will gather at Vanderbilt University Law School in June to address the issues directors now face as a result of recent regulatory changes in a climate of investor uncertainty. Read More

The eminent astronomer David Weedman, who is a Nashville native and graduate of Vanderbilt, will be delivering a free public lecture on Tuesday evening, May 27. Read More

Plans for the Monroe Carell Children's Hospital will highlight a kickoff event for the Eve of Janus Ball on Sunday, June 1, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., in the lobby of the Frances Williams Preston Building on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

Tort reform has come to Washington, D.C. with a vengeance. Congress, with the White House's blessing, has begun to propose a dizzying array of federal laws designed to change the way lawsuits are handled in the 50 states. Read More

The newly created Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt will provide innovative perspectives on American history, culture and society by bringing together a powerful group of scholars whose research and teaching cuts across the political and geographical boundaries of North, Central and South America. Read More

Dale A. Johnson and Dennis C. Dickerson have been elected president and president elect of the American Society of Church History. This is the first time someone from Vanderbilt has served in this role for the national organization and the first time faculty from one university have served back-to-back terms. Read More

Imagine a single, star-like object that burns with as much energy as billions of stars in hundreds of galaxies combined. Such objects exist. They are called quasars and are just one of the nearly unimaginable astronomical objects that eminent astronomer David Weedman will describe in the free public lecture, “Seyfert Galaxies, Quasars and the Edge of the Universe.”, on May 27. Read More

Sound and text of Chancellor Gordon Gee's Commencement address Read More

Vanderbilt's top scholars in nine undergraduate and professional schools received Founder's Medals during Commencement exercises on May 9. Read More