Year: 2003

This Saturday, Sept. 27, Vanderbilt University's Spirit of Gold Marching Band will perform a selection of Motown favorites--and feature two musicians linked to Motown's heyday--for a special halftime performance during the Commodores' game against Georgia Tech. Read More

The moral underpinnings of the U.S. Constitution, including the Supreme Court's role in protecting individual privacy rights, is the topic for the Oct. 8 installment of the "Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box series. Vanderbilt Professor of Philosophy David Wood will lead the discussion, titled "The Supreme Court and the Promise of Liberty," with Rebecca Brown, a professor of law and the Allen Chair in Law at Vanderbilt. Read More

Susan Blumenthal, a leader in bringing women's health issues to the forefront of American public policy and developing the U.S. government's "From Missiles to Mammograms" program, which utilizes missile and target recognition technology to detect breast cancer, will be the first speaker in Vanderbilt University's Chancellor's Lecture Series for 2003-04. Read More

Public relations industry veteran Robert Dilenschneider will speak at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Oct. 2, as part of the University's ongoing Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

Naomi Tutu, daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will deliver a lecture titled "Women and Leadership in the New Millennium: Privilege and Peace" Tuesday, Sept. 23, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Susan Blumenthal, a leader in bringing women's health issues to the forefront of American public policy and developing the U.S. government's "From Missiles to Mammograms" program, which utilizes missile and target recognition technology to detect breast cancer, will be the first speaker in Vanderbilt University's Chancellor's Lecture Series for 2003-04. Read More

The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University has been named the 15th best business school in the world by The Wall Street Journal, up from 26th place last year. Read More

In the 1990's some pundits were saying that all the important scientific discoveries have been made. Since then, however, astronomers have discovered that more than 95 percent of the universe is filled with stuff about which we know next to nothing. Read More

Measurements of 11 exploding stars spread throughout the visible universe made by the Hubble Space Telescope confirm earlier, ground-based studies which produced the first evidence that the universe is not only expanding, but expanding at an increasing rate. Read More

The Committee for Economic Development (CED) and Vanderbilt University are co-hosting a community town-hall forum on globalization issues and their impact on the Nashville area. The invitation-only event will bring together key local globalization experts for a timely discussion of how the world economy has a direct impact on local companies and the Nashville community. The forum is part of a major project coordinated by CED with the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and their "Americans in the World" initiative. CED recently released two reports on aspects of globalization; The Role of Women in Development and Engaging the Global Enterprise. This is the second forum in a series that has included the Dallas/Fort Worth community, and an upcoming event at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Read More

Chancellor Gordon Gee and other University representatives will deliver prizes to the winners of the 2003 "Show Your Gold" contest Sept. 17 from 3 to 4:15 p.m. More than 50 merchants took part in the second annual competition, which provides a colorful way to welcome back students while promoting school spirit. The contest was open to any display of Vanderbilt spirit, including signs, banners and window decorations. One merchant was selected as the winner from each of the following areas: Midtown, Elliston, Hillsboro and West End. Winners were: Scarlett Begonia, Jimmy John's, Smack Clothing Co., J & J.'s Market and CafÈ, and Antics. Read More

Mental health professionals may be missing at least five novel mental health problems because the impact of racism is not considered when determining mental health, a new report suggests. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Spirit of Gold Marching Band is used to maintaining a diverse repertoire. They entertain the fans during football games at Dudley Field with everything from Vanderbilt's traditional fight song to standards to pop favorites, such as Queen's We Will Rock You and Jimmy Eat World's The Middle--all in the spirit of connecting with the crowd. Read More

Chancellor Gordon Gee's Sept. 9 announcement to restructure Vanderbilt's athletics program has garnered the support of NCAA President Myles Brand and drawn national media attention. Read some of the coverage.Link to NCAA news releaseLink to Morning Edition interview with Chancellor GeeLink to Tennessean interview with Vice Chancellor David WilliamsLink to Chicago Sun Times editorialLink to Tennessean editorialLink to USA Today editorialLink to Washington Post articleLink to ESPN.com articleLink to Fresno Bee editorial Read More

David Williams II, vice chancellor for student life and university affairs at Vanderbilt University, has been appointed chair of the Legal Education Committee of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section of the American Bar Association. Read More

Vanderbilt University administrators, faculty, staff and students are invited to a series of campus events Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Read More

National leaders in the field of service-learning will meet with Vanderbilt administrators Sept. 12 to discuss ongoing efforts to fully integrate the University's distinguished service-learning program into the classroom. Read More

Sirens on the Vanderbilt University campus will wail at noon Saturday, Sept. 6, as the university conducts its quarterly test of the system designed to warn the campus of imminent danger from tornadoes or violent storms. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be one of six Southeastern universities to lead a new consortium to study microbes that could be used in a bioterrorist attack. Read More

Alain Connes, widely considered to be one of the three most influential living mathematicians, has accepted a position of distinguished professor at Vanderbilt, enabling the University to become a base for training new mathematicians to fill the ranks left vacant by a retiring generation of scholars. Read More