Year: 2005

In a display of innovative thinking and competitive spirit, teams of MBA students from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management emerged victorious at three of the nation's premier case competitions last month. In addition, Owen MBAs were finalists in two other recent case contests specifically for minority students. Read More

Soccer-ball-shaped "buckyballs" are the most famous players on the nanoscale field, presenting tantalizing prospects of revolutionizing medicine and the computer industry. Since their discovery in 1985, engineers and scientists have been exploring the properties of these molecules for a wide range of applications and innovations. Read More

Programs promoting home ownership, bilingual skills and business leadership training within the Middle Tennessee Hispanic community will be recognized Dec. 6 during ConexiÛn AmÈricas' "Celebration of Achievements" at Vanderbilt University. The event, which is co-sponsored by the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant, will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the university's Alumni Hall. Read More

Professor of History Thomas Schwartz will advise the U.S. State Department about important documents from the Johnson, Nixon, Ford and and Carter presidencies through his work on a prestigious advisory committee. Listen to an interview with Schwartz. Read More

A standing-room only crowd of over 700 heard from top federal officials and national academic leaders in mental health and human development about topics such as the history of mental retardation research and treatment, the social nature of autism, the interplay between nature and nurture and the new "Decade of Discovery" in mental health research at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's 40th Anniversary Symposium Nov. 30. Read More

Vanderbilt's electrifying quarterback Jay Cutler, the SEC's leading passer in 2005 who rewrote the school record book while leading the Commodores to their best season in years, is the first player named to the roster for the 2006 Senior Bowl, presented by Food World, bowl officials announced Nov. 30. Read More

Canals discovered in the Peruvian Andes dating back over 5,400 years offer long-sought proof that irrigation was at the heart of the development of one of the earth's first civilizations. Read More

The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is leading a multi-institutional effort supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to identify "molecular signatures" of lung cancer. Read More

The role of faith in public discourse will be the topic of a provocative inaugural lecture by the first Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt. Read More

Just before the peak of the holiday shopping season, U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) has released its 20th annual toy safety report. Experts at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt want parents to be aware of the potential hazards these toys may pose. Read More

The recent riots in France have their roots in that nation's colonialist history, argues Assistant Professor of History Moses Ochonu. Read More

Managers who use the Internet to sell products and services and to provide customers information can now take advantage of the latest academic research on online retailing. Read More

A symposium featuring top federal officials in mental health and human development will cap off a year of anniversary celebrations for the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Human Development. Read More

A husband and wife who have spent their careers teaching have extended that service into the future with a donation of $750,000 to Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development. John and Leta Shelby Wimpey, alumni of Peabody College, made the donation to commemorate their lifelong commitment to education and to honor the memory of their daughter LeAnn Wimpey, also a teacher, who died in 1982 at the age of 29. Read More

Vanderbilt psychologist Frank Tong has been named a research leader in the 2005 Scientific American 50, the magazine's annual list recognizing outstanding leadership in science and technology from the past year. Tong and his colleague Yukiyasu Kamitani, an investigator at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, shared the honor for their work in neural imaging. Read More

Vanderbilt's Susan Gray School will hold its Holidays Around the World Celebration Saturday, Dec. 3, from 5 to 9 p.m. in the Commodore Ballroom of the Student Life Center on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

Tens of thousands of people who experience movement disorders associated with Parkinson's and a variety of other neurological conditions stand to benefit from a new guidance system that uses computerized brain-mapping techniques to significantly improve an increasingly popular procedure called deep brain stimulation. Read More

The monuments, sculptures, jades, and other treasures recovered by the Vanderbilt University and National Geographic Cancuen Archaeological Project are now on exhibit in a museum tour in Europe. Read More

The reputation and prestige of the United States is "at a very low ebb" in much of the world and a vigorous campaign of public diplomacy is needed to reestablish moral leadership, agreed two former U.S. ambassadors who spoke at a Vanderbilt forum. Read More

Thirty-one assassinated and dismembered Maya nobles have been found by a team of Guatemalan and American archaeologists in a sacred cistern at the entrance to the sprawling royal palace in the ruins of the ancient city of CancuÈn, capital of one of the richest kingdoms of the Classic Maya civilization (circa A.D. 300-900), located in the PetÈn rain forest of Guatemala. The National Geographic Society, Vanderbilt University and the Ministry of Culture of Guatemala announced the gruesome discovery, which is believed to record a critical moment at the beginning of the mysterious collapse of this great ancient civilization. Read More