Year: 2003

Lynn S. Fuchs and Douglas Fuchs, professors of special education and John F. Kennedy Center investigators at Vanderbilt University, will share the Nicholas Hobbs Chair in Special Education and Human Development, a newly endowed faculty chair in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education. Read More

A new study showing similar levels of agreement among white and black college athletes that racial and ethnic discrimination is no longer a problem bucks more than 70 years of social science trends relating to racial perceptions of discrimination. Read More

A research study performed at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, proving the safety and effectiveness of using automated external defibrillators (AED's) in children, has helped change American Heart Association guidelines. The study will be published in the August 2003 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine. Read More

Ronald D. Ford has been elected president of the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Board of Directors for 2003-04. Read More

The just-published third edition of America's Top Doctors lists 46 VUMC physicians among its rankings, an increase over the 39 cited in the book's second edition, published last year. Read More

"The bigger an object, the easier it is to see. But it is actually harder for people to determine the motion of objects larger than a tennis ball held at arms length than it is to gauge the motion of smaller objects," says Duje Tadin, first author of the paper on the study appearing in the July 17 issue of the journal Nature. Tadin is a graduate student in psychology at Vanderbilt and his co-authors are postdoctoral fellow Lee A. Gilroy and professors Joseph S. Lappin and Randolph Blake. Read More

A Vanderbilt professor says that the Class Action Fairness Act currently pending in the U.S. Senate would go a long way toward curbing rampant systemic abuse by both plaintiffs' attorneys and defendants. Read More

Candidates for mayor, vice-mayor and Metro Council will take part in a community picnic on Vanderbilt University's Olin Lawn Wednesday, July 16, from noon to 1:30 p.m. This free event, sponsored by Vanderbilt's Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations office, provides an opportunity for the Vanderbilt community to meet many of the candidates while enjoying hot dogs, soft drinks and ice cream. Olin Lawn is located just off 25th Avenue South between Garland and Highland avenues. The rain location for the event is the nearby Branscomb South Dining Room at 25th Avenue South and Vanderbilt Place. Read More

More than 60 candidates for the August election in Davidson County will do some old-fashioned politicking at a July 16 community picnic on Vanderbilt University's Olin Lawn. Read More

Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak, professors of marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, have been recognized by ISI Essential Science Indicators for having the highest percent increase in total academic article citations for the most recent trackinig period in the entire field of economics and business. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers will travel to ancient churches in Cuba and Brazil to save rare documents about the history of Africans in the Americas. Read More

As questions continue to swirl around President Bush's national smallpox vaccination plan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a new smallpox bandage trial that will help answer questions about one of the major issues associated with receiving the vaccine. Read More

The telecommunications industry is still struggling to rebound from tough economic times, but it appears that the sector is finally showing signs of renewed vigor. The Nasdaq, having risen 44% from its October 2002 low, is at the leading edge of what some economists are cautiously calling an economic recovery. Read More

According to Vanderbilt student Scott Barnett, who just won the Capstone Challenge, a national business simulation competition, it's the thrill of playing a game that he found challengingóif not a little addictiveóand the feeling he gets knowing that he outperformed more than 400 other teams of undergraduate and MBA students in a competition designed to test how well a person would run a real company. Read More

West Nile Virus is an Emerging Health Threat But BewareóA More Dangerous Mosquito-Transmitted Disease is Heading Our Way, According to a Vanderbilt Researcher Read More

Jeffrey A. Ulmer, a 15-year veteran of higher education development, has joined Vanderbilt University Law School as assistant dean for Development and Alumni Relations. Read More

Douglas Edward Leach, a professor of history, emeritus, at Vanderbilt University who was nationally recognized for his books on colonial American military history, passed away July 1 at his Nashville home. Leach, 83, had battled leukemia for many years. Read More

Agenia Clark has been named senior director of Human Resources at Vanderbilt University. Clark, who previously was a director with Nortel Networks, began work at Vanderbilt June 2. Her responsibilities include payroll, budget, insurance cost recovery, claims adjustment and the benefits appeals process. Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn.óThe Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University has announced several new staff members in the MBA admissions office, Career Management Center and corporate relations office. Read More

The victory that affirmative action's proponents scored in the University of Michigan Law School decision is a loss for our nation, and it may well prove to be the death knell for amicable race relations in the future. Read More