Year: 2006

Students at Wright Middle School in Nashville will join members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee in a live conversation with an astronaut on the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 17. Read More

The fifth annual Vanderbilt Roads Scholars Tour rolls out on Wednesday, Aug. 16, taking Chancellor Gordon Gee and about 50 faculty, senior administrators, staff and student leaders to Middle and East Tennessee. Initiated in 2002, also with a trip to East Tennessee, the annual tour is designed to welcome new faculty and to familiarize them and others in Vanderbilt community with the university's ties and partnerships in the region. Read More

Vanderbilt University's chancellor and nearly 50 faculty and staff will load up on a bus August 16 and hit the road for destinations eastward with the university's fifth annual Roads Scholars Tour. Read More

Kaplan/Newsweek, publisher of the "How to Get into College" guide, has selected Vanderbilt University as one of the "New Ivies" for the 2007 edition of the guide. Read More

Each Saturday this summer, a dusty vacant lot on a city street in North Nashville is transformed into a vibrant oasis of colors, scents and sounds. Read More

Despite gaps in income based on race, ethnicity and sex beginning to close slowly but surely during the last quarter of the 20th century, academic experts say disparities in wealth between racial groups now may actually be increasing. Read More

Venus Labaron's advice to other parents of toddlers is simple: "Watch them, just watch them." Labaron spoke with media today at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt flanked by family, friends and supporters. Read More

A humble aquarium fish may hold the key to finding therapies capable of preventing the structural birth defects that account for one out of three infant deaths in the United States today. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) are co-hosting one of the nation's largest educational events for individuals who suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Read More

Fidel Castro's serious illness could signal bumpy times ahead for the Cuban government: "When you have dictatorships that revolve around the persona of one individual, they tend to be very brittle," according to political scientist Mitchell Seligson. Read More

The Golden Globe Award-winning television show Lost will be used as a springboard for learning concepts about cultural studies in a new communications studies course at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Reddish-brown crystals of a radioactive mineral called monazite can act as microscopic clocks that allow geologists to date rock formations that have been altered by the action of high-temperature fluids, a process that frequently leads to the formation of rich ore deposits. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $2 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to create a comprehensive program to help train and educate those who care for elderly patients. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently began offering a new treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) that may improve, and in some cases restore, patients' vision. Read More

Nashville's Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst has joined William Faulkner, David Bowie, Jackson Pollack and other luminaries in L'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, an Order of France recognizing significant contributions to the arts and literature. Read More

Paul Ragan, M.D., associate professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, is available for interviews on the Israel/Hezbollah Conflict. He can address a wide range of topics in dealing with psychiatry issues in the military including acute stress disorders that are often rampant throughout a community when hundreds of thousands of people are displaced. Read More

The proposed trip of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East will undoubtedly encourage many to draw parallels to Henry Kissinger's famed shuttle diplomacy after the Yom Kippur War in October 1973, according to Vanderbilt University Professor of History Thomas Alan Schwartz. Read More

Singer-songwriters Victoria Shaw, Jim Photoglo and Don Henry will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

Three Vanderbilt political scientists are available to discuss the 2006 Tennessee U.S. Senate race. Read More

People who suffer from severe ulcerative colitis may find relief from a new drug that is being tested at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More