Year: 2004

A three-year collaborative research project exploring the relationship between religion and the economy will be outlined by members of an interdisciplinary faculty research team commissioned by the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

With the United States' military involvement in Iraq playing a key role in the hotly contested presidential race between George W. Bush and John Kerry, Pierre Gassmann's insight could prove invaluable to voters trying to sort through the rhetoric. Gassmann, who until July served as head of the Baghdad delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will discuss "Humanitarianism and the Global War on Terror: Does Neutrality Still Make Sense?" on Oct. 12 at Vanderbilt. Read More

In post-Sept. 11 America, prisons are increasingly holding people, some of them indefinitely, for reasons of security, asylum and migration. But neither George Bush nor John Kerry is talking about immigration issues, which "should be at the very forefront of the debates," says Robert Barsky, an immigration issues expert and Vanderbilt University professor. Read More

There has not been a personnel change on the Supreme Court in 10 years ñ the longest the body has gone unchanged since the 1820s. If President George W. Bush replaces a liberal justice or Sen. John Kerry replaces a conservative justice, there is a significant opportunity for change within this closely divided Supreme Court, says Suzanna Sherry, Cal Turner Professor of Law and Leadership at Vanderbilt University. Read More

In the aftermath of a deadly fire at a University of Mississippi fraternity house in August, Vanderbilt University officials have ordered all fraternity and sorority houses on its campus to install fire sprinklers. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind will speak at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Oct. 14, delivering a lecture titled "In Search of George W. Bush: Informed Consent in the Age of Spin." Suskind's book, "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill," published earlier this year, is a candid assessment of the Bush presidency by former U.S. Treasury Secretary O'Neill, the only member of Bush's innermost circle to leave and then agree to speak frankly about the inner workings of the administration. Read More

Call it the illuminated brain cell: Imagine a neuron decked out with thousands of tiny red, yellow, green and blue lights. As the neuron fires and recovers, visualize these lights as blinking on and off, moving this way and that, revealing the location and movement of the nerve's molecular machinery in action. Read More

The nationally televised debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards will be the only opportunity voters have to see the vice presidential candidates go head to head before the election, and a trio of Vanderbilt University students will experience the action live from the debate floor. Erin Brown, Susan Mader and Alex Kwak will be on hand at Case Western Reserve University to see how Cheney and Edwards use this moment in the spotlight to reinforce the messages of the men atop their respective tickets. Read More

A good performance in the vice presidential debate by Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina could be a factor in a win by Kerry on Nov. 2 in one or more Southern states, despite predictions that the Bush campaign is practically assured of victory there. While more Southern states are likely to be red than blue this November, the Democrats' campaign strategy may succeed by carrying just a few Southern states, says Vanderbilt Fellow Kareem Crayton. Read More

Vanderbilt University will participate in nationwide celebrations of the 100th birthday of writer Isaac Bashevis Singer with screenings of two films and a lecture by Robert D. King of the University of Texas, a friend of the Nobel Prize-winning author. Read More

Appalachian music will ring out on the grounds of the Dyer Observatory in the next installment of the Music on the Mountain concert series on Sunday, Oct. 24. Read More

Does environment determine the reading success of a student? Stephen Petrill will address this question as he presents a lecture in a series on development and developmental disabilities on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

ENIGMA ñ you may have seen the movie, read the book or downloaded a software simulation of the secret code machine the Germans used in World War II. Now you have an opportunity to hear a firsthand account of the code-breaking effort that made a major contribution to defeating Nazi Germany. Read More

Dr. Mildred T. Stahlman, who revolutionized the care of high-risk newborns by creating the world's first modern neonatal intensive care unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been named the university's 2004 Distinguished Alumna. The Alumni Association of Vanderbilt will honor Stahlman Nov. 4 during the university's reunion and homecoming weekend. Read More

Ministers who want to freshen or rethink their approach to writing and delivering sermons are invited to a six-hour seminar led by John McClure, a Vanderbilt University homiletics professor and co-author of a book on the subject. Read More

Before Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards square off next week in their only nationally televised debate, a delegation of Vanderbilt students will join peers from 14 other prominent universities for a mock political convention and debate at the same site. Read More

The United Nations Foundation and Vanderbilt University will host a foreign policy discussion at Ingram Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus on Monday, October 4, at 7 p.m. Read More

Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced today that Vanderbilt University has joined the laboratory's "core universities." ORNL's core universities--which now number sevenóassume a scientific leadership role in working with the laboratory to help shape the research agenda for more than one billion dollars in science and technology programs. Read More

The government of Canada will provide support to Vanderbilt University for programs and studies that promote a better knowledge and understanding of Canada and its relationship with the United States. Read More

Four years of Pacific Ocean adventures in the early 1840s informed classic novels by Herman Melville including Moby Dick and Typee, but until recently the full story of those formative years of the author had not been told. Read More