Year: 2005

Losing one's virginity is among life's most significant experiences, and a new study explores its complexities, from how men and women view the act ñ much less differently than people might think ñ to how the circumstances surrounding virginity loss affect people long term and what it means for young gays and lesbians. Read More

One of the most prolific medical inventors in history, Robert S. Langer, spoke at Vanderbilt Nov. 11 about a variety of topics including how drug delivery technologies, including novel polymers and intelligent microchips, promise to create new treatments for cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses. Read More

John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center spoke at Vanderbilt Nov. 15 about how disregard for the "relentless rules of arithmetic" and other mismanagement by mutual fund managers has "robbed investors of trillions." Read More

A 15-year-old Coffee County girl is recovering after becoming the first child to receive a simultaneous heart and double-lung transplant at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt on Nov. 8. Read More

An Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and a member of the Nazi Youth Movement discuss their "uncommon friendship" as part of Vanderbilt's Holocaust Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Law School. Read More

An Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and a member of the Nazi Youth Movement discuss their "uncommon friendship" as part of Vanderbilt\'s Holocaust Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Law School. Read More

Redstone Golf Management has been awarded a five-year contract to manage the operation of Vanderbilt Legends Club, a Vanderbilt University official announced. Read More

Hipsters, poseurs, waitresses and polka were among the many topics raised during a panel discussion with Vanderbilt sociologist Richard Lloyd about his new book, Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City. Read More

Performance artist Laurie Anderson will discuss her entire repertoire and current project, "The Waters Reglitterized," on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Vanderbilt University as part of the Chancellor's Lecture Series. Anderson's work has covered the spectrum of media, from performance, film, music and writing to photography and sculpture. Read More

A Vanderbilt international law expert says the threat by attorneys for Saddam Hussein to end all contact with the Iraqi court that will try the former Iraqi president is nothing but "legal maneuvering." Read More

John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, will speak at Vanderbilt University at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 15, as part of the Owen Graduate School of Management's Distinguished Speaker Series. The event, which will be held in Benton Chapel on the Vanderbilt campus, is free and open to the public. Read More

Vanderbilt anthropologist Tom Dillehay has spent the past 30 years uncovering the ancient history of Chile and other South American countries, in the process changing our understanding of how and when humans first came to the Americas. His contributions to Chilean culture were recognized this fall by Chile's President Ricardo Lagos with an announcement that his work will be used to symbolize Chile's Sello Bicentenario, or bicentennial, which the nation will celebrate in 2010. Read More

Two former U.S. ambassadors and alumni of Vanderbilt University will discuss diplomacy during a forum that will be part of International Education Week at Vanderbilt. Read More

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's award-winning legal affairs correspondent, has cancelled her speaking engagement at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Nov. 10. Read More

Credited with launching the fields of sustained drug delivery and tissue engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Institute Professor Robert S. Langer will give the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture at Vanderbilt at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11. Read More

An Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and a member of the Nazi Youth Movement will discuss their "uncommon friendship" as part of Vanderbilt's Holocaust Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Law School. Read More

Vanderbilt University ranks fifth among the "Best Places to Work in Academia," according to a survey of researchers in the life sciences that will be released Nov. 7 in The Scientist magazine. Read More

Polls have shown that Argentina is one of the Latin American nations with a high level of anti-American sentiment, so one cannot be entirely surprised by the protests surrounding the international summit in Mar Del Plata, says Vanderbilt University political scientist Mitchell Seligson. There has been a recent political shift to the left among several Latin American countries, with tension between the United States and Venezuela of particular note. A number of Latin Americans feel that the benefits of free trade have not yet "trickled down" to them, and that may be helping to fuel the protests. Read More

The work of three Fisk University scholars who researched the lives and music of people in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s was celebrated Nov. 3 with music and discussion in Fisk\'s historic Jubilee Hall. Read More

Watch video of a September 2005 talk by internationally recognized architect Peter Eisenman, "Architecture Matters." Read More