Year: 2005
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Goldberg named associate dean for research at Vanderbilt Law School
Professor of Law John Goldberg has been named associate dean for research, a new position at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read MoreApr 27, 2005
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William T. Spitz of Vanderbilt receives 2005 Award for Investment Leadership, Award recognizes investment management excellence and professional ethics
William T. Spitz, vice chancellor for investments and treasurer at Vanderbilt University, has been named the recipient of the 2005 Award for Investment Leadership given by the investment firm Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. Read MoreApr 27, 2005
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Coopwood named new CEO of Metro Hospital Authority
Reginald W. Coopwood, M.D. has been named the next CEO of the Metro Hospital Authority which inclues Nashville General Hospital at Meharry, Bordeaux Long Term Care and Knowles Assisted Living Facility and Adult Day Care. Read MoreApr 27, 2005
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Op-ed: Focus on work and family could secure win for Dems in 2008: an open letter to the Democratic leadership
Democrats need to redefine themselves to win the White House in 2008. The Party‘s leadership change is an opportunity to develop a bold platform that restores the American Dream to working families left behind by the Bush Administration. Read MoreApr 27, 2005
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Op-ed: New international school achievement comparisons: is the United States still at risk?
Public reaction to news such as the recent studies showing America‘s elementary and secondary schools‘ students do not know math, science and other subjects as well as their counterparts in other nations is predictable. Read MoreApr 27, 2005
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee, staff and students to receive recycling award from state environmental Deputy Commissioner Paul Sloan
Vanderbilt University has been awarded the 2005 Tennessee Pollution Prevention Partnership Green Schools Award for recycling by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Read MoreApr 26, 2005
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MEDIA ADVISORY – “Smart” treadmill, football neck protection equipment, robotic surgery system among innovations to be showcased at Vanderbilt‘s Engineering Senior Design Day
Vanderbilt engineering seniors will display their innovations Tuesday, April 26, during the School of Engineering‘s Senior Design Day. Read MoreApr 25, 2005
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Scientists discover early universe behaved like a liquid after Big Bang
Research reported April 20 at a meeting of the American Physical Society reveals that the early universe may have behaved like a liquid in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. Physicists from Vanderbilt University were part of a prestigious international team that made the surprising findings. Read MoreApr 21, 2005
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Vanderbilt faculty awards conferred at spring assembly
Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee presented five faculty members with annual awards when Vanderbilt‘s Spring Faculty Assembly convened April 4. Read MoreApr 20, 2005
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Emotional disorders expert to speak at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Richard Davidson, a psychologist who studies adults and young children who have or are at risk for emotional disorders, autism and other developmental disorders, will speak at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development on Thursday, April 21, at 4 p.m. Read MoreApr 19, 2005
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Vanderbilt University professors receive special education research award
Vanderbilt University professors Lynn Fuchs and Doug Fuchs are the recipients of the Special Education Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2005 Distinguished Research Award. Read MoreApr 19, 2005
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Area high school students to give dance performance through the Vanderbilt Community Outreach Partnership Center
Members of Expressions, the Vanderbilt Community Outreach Partnership Center‘s after-school dance program for local teens, will perform "FUSION" April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Tennessee State University‘s Recital Hall. Read MoreApr 19, 2005
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Strong woman in a ‘Strongman‘ world
There aren‘t many people who can pull a fighter jet weighing more than 14,000 pounds 47 feet in 60 seconds. There aren‘t many people who have a 3.1 grade point average with a major in chemical engineering. There aren‘t many men, much less women, who can claim to have accomplished both difficult feats. Vanderbilt University Junior Kara Mann has achieved both and is a strong woman in every sense of the word as she defies stereotypes on a daily basis. Read MoreApr 19, 2005
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Middle East trip focus of Rep. Blackburn‘s address at Vanderbilt
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is the featured speaker for the April 25 annual meeting for Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt. Blackburn, who represents Tennessee‘s 7th District and is a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, will discuss findings from her recent trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel. Read MoreApr 15, 2005
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Vanderbilt to host conference on health care disparities, Inequalities in medicine to be discussed April 29 to May 1
Disparities in health care based on race and culture will be discussed during a three-day conference at Vanderbilt University that will bring participants from the United States, Canada and Europe to campus. Read MoreApr 15, 2005
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Commodore Steel Drum Band to perform at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory, Music on the Mountain concert series continues with free show on April 24
Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory will take on the festive air of Carnival time in the Caribbean on Sunday, April 24, when the Commodore Steel Drum Band performs as part of the Music on the Mountain concert series. Read MoreApr 13, 2005
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MEDIA ADVISORY – Vanderbilt University hosts Dell Student Technology Leadership Competition
Students from six area high schools and nine middle schools will demonstrate their enthusiasm and expertise with technology during an April 13 competition at Vanderbilt‘s Wyatt Center. Read MoreApr 13, 2005
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New era in graduate education planned at Vanderbilt, Thirteen fellows chosen by Center for the Americas for innovative program
Bi-weekly conversations this fall among 13 students at Vanderbilt University will be the modest beginnings of a movement designed to eventually transform the experience of every graduate student on campus. Read MoreApr 12, 2005
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Vanderbilt engineering part of national ‘dream team‘, To design, develop new secure system design technologies
Vanderbilt University‘s School of Engineering will play an important role in a major new $19 million National Science Foundation (NSF) multi-institutional center to protect the nation‘s computer infrastructure from cyber attacks while improving its reliability. Read MoreApr 12, 2005
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President Bush to appoint Gordon Gee to board of Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation
The Chancellor of Vanderbilt University will be appointed to the board of trustees of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, the White House announced. President Bush intends to appoint Gordon Gee to a six-year term on the 13-member board, which oversees programs to "encourage and support research, study and labor designated to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind." Read MoreApr 11, 2005