Year: 2005

Howard University‘s Robert Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., is returning to Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a guest speaker for the Fourth Annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture on Diversity in Medical Education. Read More

More than 100 Vanderbilt University students will spend their fall break Oct. 22-25 helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi reclaim some semblance of a normal life. Read More

Baseball America ranked Vanderbilt's 2005 recruiting class as the best in the country, the publication released Oct. 12. Read More

The Vine Hill Community Clinic, operated by the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, is doubling its size and extending hours of operation to enhance patient care. Read More

The Vine Hill Community Clinic, operated by the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, is doubling its size and extending hours of operation to enhance patient care. Read More

Dr. Andre' Lemont Churchwell, a Vanderbilt University cardiologist whose distinguished career has included extensive professional and community service and support for aspiring minority faculty, is the recipient of the 2005 Walter R. Murray Jr. Distinguished Alumnus Award. Read More

Prominent composers will be commissioned to compose music for three Blair School of Music ensembles under a new program financed by the James Stephen Turner Family Charitable Foundation. Read More

Jim Wallis, a passionate voice among Christian evangelicals for social justice, will deliver the 2005 Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt University's Benton Chapel. Wallis' first address, scheduled Oct. 13 at 7 p.m., is titled "God's Politics," a reference to his most recent book, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. He will return Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. to present "A New Vision for American Politics." Read More

Jim Wallis, a passionate voice among Christian evangelicals for social justice, will deliver the 2005 Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt University‘s Benton Chapel. Wallis‘ first address, scheduled Oct. 13 at 7 p.m., is titled "God‘s Politics," a reference to his most recent book, God‘s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn‘t Get It. He will return Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. to present "A New Vision for American Politics." Read More

Vanderbilt University has been added to a government list of Best Workplaces for Commuters in recognition of its efforts to reduce pollution, commuting costs, traffic congestion and employee stress. Read More

Vanderbilt University has been added to a government list of Best Workplaces for Commuters in recognition of its efforts to reduce pollution, commuting costs, traffic congestion and employee stress. Read More

When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, multiple clinic visits may begin to mount, along with questions that the patient wants answered sooner rather than later. Read More

Tamara Baynham, a senior research scientist for the Guidant Corporation, will speak to encourage engineering majors Oct. 13 during her presentation "Survive and Thrive in Engineering School: It Takes a Village." The talk will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center as part of the Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series sponsored by the center. Read More

What would it have been like to have been in the Rhea County, Tenn., courtroom during the summer of 1925 to witness William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow argue Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes? Theatergoers will have the opportunity to experience it for themselves when Great Performances at Vanderbilt presents The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial on Oct. 19 and 20. Read More

What would it have been like to have been in the Rhea County, Tenn., courtroom during the summer of 1925 to witness William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow argue Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes? Theatergoers will have the opportunity to experience it for themselves when Great Performances at Vanderbilt presents The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial on Oct. 19 and 20. Read More

Starting Oct. 12 Vanderbilt University professors from varied disciplines will challenge viewers of the Hudson River School exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts to think critically about the contemporary meaning of the 19th century landscape paintings. Read More

Starting Oct. 12 Vanderbilt University professors from varied disciplines will challenge viewers of the Hudson River School exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts to think critically about the contemporary meaning of the 19th century landscape paintings. Read More

Attorney and best-selling author Scott Turow will give a talk, "Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty," Thursday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Robert Hicks, author of the new novel, Widow of the South, will speak on Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. on the campus of Vanderbilt University. The discussion will be held in the main Commodore Ballroom in the New Student Life Center. Read More

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., will rejoin the faculty of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt to teach a course in health care policy. Cooper, who was an adjunct faculty member at the Owen School from 1995 to 2002, will teach students in the school's new Health Care MBA program. Read More