Year: 2004

The art and science of being an effective preacher will be examined at a community breakfast sponsored by Vanderbilt University Divinity School and featuring new homiletics professor Brad Braxton. Read More

Vanderbilt University will be the home of the first federally funded national center to take a wide-ranging look at school choice ñ from its impact on student achievement and instructional quality to whether it meets the needs of special education and disabled students and its effects across racial and class lines. Read More

Five Medical Center employees arrived in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 8, trained and ready to help those dealing with the devastating effects of Hurricane Frances, which has pounded the state in recent days. Read More

You need to understand something about the slave trade of Herman Melville's time to fully grasp his Moby Dick or Benito Cereno. Familiarity with voodoo culture can illuminate the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Read More

For a Saturday night outing in Nashville, it's hard to do better than a beautiful mountaintop setting, world-class talent and a bargain price for carpoolers. Read More

Presidential elections, modern poetry and health care are among the wide-ranging non-credit classes available to the public during the fall term of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt. Read More

Former Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor will discuss jobs, the U.S. standard of living and future trade policies when he delivers the annual McGee Lecture at Vanderbilt on Sept. 16. The lecture, titled "Politics and Trade Agreements," is free and open to the public. Read More

Does God exist? Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? What is happiness, and how do we find meaning and purpose in our lives? Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Family Outreach Center will host an organizational meeting for a series of workshops for area college students and young adults who have a brother or sister with special needs, mental health issues or chronic illness on Tuesday, Sept. 7, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Read More

The latest edition of the Middle Tennessee Community Services Directory, sponsored by the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, is now available on the Web and also in print. The directory, the only comprehensive listing of nonprofits and social services throughout Middle Tennessee, is now under the stewardship of the Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. Read More

Chris Guthrie has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

The lack of a class on the history of country music would not be notable at most classical music schools at major universities. Read More

An increase in funding of nearly 100 percent in four years has put Vanderbilt among the top 25 U.S. universities for the first time in recent history in terms of the amount of federally supported research and development projects that it conducts. Read More

Musicians want to have it; religions try to save them. Read More

Richard Woodcock, a world-renowned researcher of learning ability assessment, will present a lecture on historical advances in cognitive assessment on Thursday, Sept. 9, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. The lecture will take place in Room 241 of the Kennedy Center/MRL Building and is free and open to the public. Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Dewey W. Grantham, a nationally prominent scholar of the 20th century South and distinguished faculty member in the Vanderbilt Department of History, died Aug. 26 at St. Thomas Hospital. He was 83 years old and had suffered during the past year from cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Read More

The Mensa Education and Research Foundation (MERF) has selected Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, as the recipient of its 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award. Read More

Vanderbilt University professor Robert D. Sherwood is on loan from the university to the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he will play an integral role in the funding of research and education. Read More

For many teachers, managing ongoing student behavior problems is a full-time job, one that can keep them from effectively delivering classroom content. A program developed by Vanderbilt in partnership with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to improve behavior is now being introduced to more than 4,000 North Carolina pre-kindergarten students. The program is called Reaching Educators, Children and Parents, or RECAP. Read More

Allan Erbsen, a Vanderbilt fellow and instructor at Vanderbilt Law School, says it is unlikely that arbitrators would award South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Yong a gold medal after a scoring error by Olympic judges placed him behind American Paul Hamm and a fellow South Korean. Read More