Year: 2003

Robert Armistead McGaw, who created many of Vanderbilt's most enduring traditions and served in the University's administration for more than 30 years, passed away June 30 after a battle with cancer. The author of two popular historical books about Vanderbilt was 89 years old. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Welcomes Members of the Metro Public Health Department to Train First Year Students in Smallpox Vaccination Friday, June 27, 2003. Read More

A clinical trial testing a theaflavin-enriched green tea extract is the first human study to find that a tea product lowers cholesterol. Read More

Vanderbilt University responds to high court's decisions on race and admissions. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School dean Kent Syverud applauds Supreme Court's decisions on affirmative action in admissions. Read More

Boring lectures and "cookbook" labs are not part of a creative science research program at Vanderbilt this summer. Read More

Researchers are working to understand the process of how cancer cells develop the ability to migrate from their original location, settle and begin growing in another distant organ. Read More

Robert E. Bodenheimer, assistant professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University, has received the NSF's Faculty Early CAREER Development Award to develop a program that reinforces and tests what a student has just learned by requiring the student to teach an animated character. Read More

A new Fulbright program just announced by Vanderbilt University Law School will provide future law teachers from India the opportunity to study various approaches to clinical legal education in the United States. Read More

Laurel Brown, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, is the principal investigator of a pilot study currently underway in The Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, in conjunction with the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology to uncover the cause of cognitive deficits many breast cancer patients experience after being treated with chemotherapy, often referred to as "chemo brain" or "chemo fog." Read More

A team of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center physician-scientists gathered with their colleagues here earlier this week to hear, discuss and present some of the latest advances in care for patients with cancer. Read More

James F. Blumstein, Centennial Professor of Law, has been named University Professor of Law and Medicine. Read More

Legislation memorializing Jonathan I. Charney, Vanderbilt University Law School professor and one of the world’s preeminent experts on international law, was signed into law by Gov. Phil Bredesen on May 27. Read More

Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak, professors of marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, have been named Distinguished Graduate Alumni by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read More

A Wall Street Journal opinion piece written by James Blumstein, Centennial Chair in Law, regarding the case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging admissions policies at the University of Michigan Read More

Policing fraud is the only way to keep markets working, says Vanderbilt expert Read More

As President Bush attempts to mend fences with European leaders in the aftermath of war with Iraq, he would do well to consider the actions of a previous president from Texas, according to Thomas Alan Schwartz, a Vanderbilt University presidential historian. Read More

The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is now offering a technique that uses a light-activated drug to help restore the ability to swallow in patients whose esophagus is blocked by cancer. Read More

Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will deliver the keynote address at the Vanderbilt Directors College on June 9. As the SEC’s longest-serving commissioner, Levitt initiated and contributed to the development of several of the recent changes in corporate governance, focusing his efforts on educating, empowering and protecting America’s investors. He chaired the SEC from 1993 to 2001 and now is a senior adviser to The Carlyle Group in New York. Read More

James Bacchus, the chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, will join the faculty of the Vanderbilt University Law School as a visiting professor teaching international law beginning next spring. Read More