Year: 2003

Simon Collier, professor of history, died Feb. 20 at Alive Hospice in Nashville after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 64. Read More

The largest AIDS awareness program targeting African Americans will kick off Sunday, March 2. The weeklong program will include special workshops, church services and the opportunity to meet and hear about the successes and struggles of individuals who are living with HIV/AIDS. Read More

Former NASA astronaut Rick Chappell, who directs Vanderbilt University’s Office of Science and Research Communications, will discuss the impact of the Columbia shuttle disaster on the future of America’s space program during a series of videoconferences on Feb. 21 with K-12 students in Texas and Tennessee. Read More

Brain Awareness Month begins March 1 featuring an art exhibition of Herb Alpert's works and a lecture on "Music and the Brain" by Dr. Robert Zatorre. Read More

Congressional hearings on the space shuttle disaster begin Wednesday, Feb. 12. Vanderbilt University professors can add context to your stories.---Scientific Experiments in Space---Robots in Space---Accident Analysis Read More

"Vanderbilt@TPAC@Vanderbilt@TPAC" unites the intellectual resources of Nashville's premier educational institution with the cultural flair of the city's leading performing arts organization. "InsideOut of the (Lunch) Box" to be the first program, Feb. 27 Read More

Six teams of MBA students from top business schools competed last weekend in the fourth annual Vanderbilt MBA eStrategy Contest at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Students from the Harvard Business School took home the $25,000 prize from the contest, the largest case competition of its kind. Read More

Sima Samar, chair of Afghanistan’s first Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC), will give a talk on the status of Afghan women after Taliban rule at Vanderbilt University Monday, Feb. 24. Read More

Current foreign policy dilemmas, the future role of the United Nations in international affairs and a woman’s view of American history are among the wide-ranging topics offered for the spring term of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt March 3 through April 21. Read More

Vanderbilt and four other leading private universities have filed an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School in their efforts to defend the principles of affirmative action in college admissions. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering students will celebrate the lighter side of engineering during National Engineers Week, Feb. 17-22. Read More

Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., Dean of the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, was recently appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Provisional Committee on Institutional and Policy Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the Healthcare Workforce. Read More

Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has awarded one of its competitive Fast Track grants to Vanderbilt neuroscientist Richard Nass, Ph.D., to fund his search for drugs that will prevent dopamine nerve cell death. Read More

Children can now use their bedside computers to join a new online community that fosters an environment where children can speak openly and honestly with peers about their illnesses and to provide encouragement to each other. Read More

Forrest E. Harris, Sr., director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on African American Church Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School will present "Leadership and Struggle in the Black Churches: Then and Now." Read More

Historian Bryan Mark Rigg will discuss his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" at the Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life at Vanderbilt on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. Read More

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering L. Roy Xu has won a Young Investigator Program award from the U.S. Office of Naval Research for his research on hybrid interface mechanics and nano-composite materials. Read More

George Fredrickson, one of the leading American scholars on race, will compare and contrast anti-Semitism with racism against people of African descent during a Feb. 27 lecture at Vanderbilt University. Fredrickson will deliver the annual Byrne lecture at 8 p.m. in the Moore Room (218) of Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Noted scholar and orator Cornel West will deliver a talk titled “Race and Democracy” at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 13. Read More

Vanderbilt School of Nursing's Faculty Practice Network (VNFPN) is opening the doors on a new nurse-managed, community-based clinic this week. Read More