Year: 2004

Vanderbilt University's Office for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life offers an opportunity for lesbians, bisexual women and straight women to celebrate their differences and their friendships at BLAST, an event scheduled 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 4. Read More

An international team of chemists has developed a new family of antioxidants that are up to 100 times more effective than Vitamin E. Read More

A master's degree in Jewish Studies can now be earned at Vanderbilt Divinity School as part of the quickly expanding program directed by Jack M. Sasson. Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital have nailed down a clear picture of a newly described virus that is a leading cause of pneumonia in babies. A study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine defines the "who, how, and how much" of the impact of human metapneumovirus (MPV) on children. Read More

A seminar on womanist theology and the black church experience will be held on Saturday, Feb. 7, at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

Robert P. Moses, founder of the Algebra Project, will speak at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, in the Rotunda of the Faye and Joe Wyatt Center on the Peabody campus. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development awarded its 2004 Changing Lives Award to the Rev. Enoch E. Fuzz, pastor of Nashville's Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church, Friday, Jan. 23. Read More

Starting in fall 2005, Vanderbilt will offer a select group of high ability high school students advanced admission to any of seven of its professional and graduate schools when they enroll as undergraduates at the University. Read More

Vanderbilt University announced today a gift of percentage ownership from Interactive Brokers Group LLC (IBG) to support the Financial Markets Research Center (FMRC) at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Income from the gift-which, on Dec. 31, 2003, had a book value of $3 million-will provide permanent support for the center, funding the maintenance of its databases and providing support for faculty research projects in the area of financial markets. Read More

With voters under the age of 30 constituting 17 percent of caucus-goers last week in Iowa-up 9 percent from four years ago-the youth vote is shaping up to be a vital component in the 2004 presidential election. Read More

Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor for Student Life and University Affairs David Williams has been appointed to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Nashville branch. Read More

A Vanderbilt Divinity School professor says that a four-decade trend of the cinematic "countercultural Jesus" may be interrupted by the release of actor Mel Gibson's take on the crucifixion story, The Passion of the Christ. Read More

Theatre students at Vanderbilt University will get a week of intense instruction in Shakespearean acting when the Actors From the London Stage company visits for a weeklong residency in February. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Vision Research Center (VVRC) recently won a competitive renewal of a $2.8 million grant from the National Eye Institute to train graduate and post-doctoral students in vision research. The grant is the latest in a series of funds the University has won to support vision research. Read More

Veteran rap artist Chuck D will be among a panel of experts from both sides of the Internet downloading debate featured in an upcoming Vanderbilt University event. Read More

Constitution building and reconstruction in Iraq will be the subject of a Vanderbilt University Law School symposium beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23. The two speakers, Judge Gilbert S. Merritt and Kevin Reinhart, each spent time working in Iraq in the summer of 2003. Read More

Vanderbilt University professor Cecelia Tichi, author of ExposÈs and Excess: Muckraking in America 1900/2000, will speak about the comeback of muckraking journalism at two Nashville events. Read More

Claims that homosexuality can be cured through religious faith will be examined at a conference on Saturday, Feb. 7, at Vanderbilt University, the same day another conference is scheduled at a Nashville church to promote the concept. Read More

How does investigating the roots of crime change a vacant lot into a community garden? Harvard public health researcher Felton Earls will discuss his findings that change can be as simple as "taking action, making an effort" as part of the Vanderbilt Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Series Thursday, Jan. 22, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

Today, we know a little bit more about one of mankind's deadliest enemies, the mosquito. Scientists have taken an important step toward understanding the mosquito's sense of smell, an avenue of research that may lead to better ways to repel the deadly insect. Read More