Year: 2005

Vanderbilt University‘s School of Engineering has been selected to lead a new research program that focuses on the impact of radiation on continually shrinking electronic devices and new microelectronic materials ñ both in space and on the ground. Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn.óImogene Forte, who devoted her career to improving education as a teacher, school administrator and successful businesswoman, died May 8. She was 79. Read More

William G. Christie, Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Finance and professor of law at Vanderbilt University, has been named executive editor of Financial Management, the flagship journal of the Financial Management Association (FMA) and a leading scholarly publication, effective January 2006. Read More

Political economist Daron Acemoglu will discuss "Rethinking the Wealth of Nations" at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, May 18. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is the 29th David Steine Memorial Seminar. Read More

Is there a copy of you reading this announcement? A person who is not only you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? If the theory of parallel universes is correct, then each of us has dozens of such alter egos. Read More

The complex issues of attachment between children and parents will be the topic of an all-day research conference at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Thursday, May 19. Read More

Vanderbilt University special education researchers Steve Graham and Karen Harris were recently awarded the 2005 Council for Exceptional Children Special Education Research Award at that organization‘s national convention April 6-9 in Baltimore, Md. Read More

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras will deliver the keynote address to the graduating class of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management at commencement exercises on May 13. The separate Owen ceremony immediately follows the university‘s commencement program. Read More

Though university classes have wrapped for the summer, Vanderbilt junior Star Wallin won‘t be taking a hard-earned break. She will spend her vacation at separate events honoring the nation‘s Truman and Udall scholars, as well as working at the Jane Goodall Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read More

As the science that could lead to designer babies advances, and as machines take on more human-like capabilities, what once was considered science fiction is becoming reality for contemporary scientists and technologists, with more in common than generally assumed. Read More

The Tennessee Court of Appeals handed down a ruling in the United Daughters of the Confederacy‘s lawsuit regarding the inscription on Confederate Memorial Hall, overturning a Davidson County chancellor‘s 2003 ruling in Vanderbilt‘s favor. Read More

Articles by three Vanderbilt University Law School professors have been selected among the "Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2004" by Corporate Practice Commentator, a quarterly journal that reprints the year‘s top scholarly articles in the field of corporate and securities law. Read More

The first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi, will speak at Vanderbilt. Read More

Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and rock ‘n‘ roll legend Little Richard will help send off the 130th class at Vanderbilt University this month, with commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 13, capping three days of celebration. Read More

William M. Wilson, a Nashville businessman and Vanderbilt alumnus, and Carrie Colvin, a member of the Class of 2005 from Birmingham, Ala., are the newest members of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. Colvin and Wilson were elected at the board‘s spring meeting on April 29. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will embark on a phase one clinical trial of a new product that could be used in children to protect them from hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Vanderbilt will be the only site in the country testing this new product. Read More

George W. Bush‘s best efforts to rally public support for Social Security privatization have met with failure. Although more people now perceive a problem, few perceive a crisis. Worse for the president, two months of salesmanship have actually lowered his approval rating on the issue. People do not seem to want private accounts if it means fundamental changes to a program that has a strong track record of success. Read More

Journalists are invited to a special screening May 11 of a new PBS documentary highlighting the problems of youth who age out of the foster care system. Read More

The new Bluebird on the Mountain concert series begins at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory on Saturday, May 14, the first of five shows this summer and fall offered by the observatory in collaboration with the Bluebird CafÈ. Read More

Learning to read is a struggle for one in five children. The Vanderbilt Kennedy Reading Clinic is currently accepting applications for two summer sessions. The first session will be June 6-30, and the second session will be July 11-Aug. 4. Read More