Year: 2006

Jeremy J. Waldron, University Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia University, will discuss "The Rule Against Torture as a Legal Archetype" at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which has a 21-year accident free operation, is the first dedicated air medical operation in the U.S. to deploy the American Eurocopter EC 145 equipped with the latest in state of the art avionics specially designed to operate in the nighttime and inclimate weather environment. VUMC, which operates four helicopters and one fixed wing and is the largest IFR program in Tennessee, has air ambulance experts available to speak about air ambulance safety standards. Read More

The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has been chosen by the National Cancer Institute to join an elite group of researchers asked to test the most cutting-edge cancer treatments in Phase II clinical trials in both solid tumor and hematologic malignancies. Read More

In a new book, a professor at Vanderbilt University documents the effective role music and the arts are playing in the fight against AIDS in Uganda. Read More

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Thomas Cruse discussed future directions for Air Force science and technology in a lecture at Stevenson Center Jan. 20. Cruse is the chief technologist for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Read More

An information session on Accelerator — Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute at the Owen Graduate School of Management will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 31, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 222 at the Owen School. Undergraduate students from Vanderbilt and other area colleges and universities and their parents are invited to learn more about Vanderbilt's unique summer program, and students attending the information session are eligible for a program discount. Read More

W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch, law and economics scholars at Harvard Law School, will join the Vanderbilt University faculty later this year as the law school launches the first program of its kind — a Ph.D. in law and economics. Read More

Vanderbilt University will examine the legacy of African American fraternities and sororities, which celebrate their 100th birthday this year, during a week of activities Feb. 6-10. Read More

Stefanie Lindquist, associate professor of political science and law, spoke Jan. 23 on how recent and Supreme Court changes may affect legal access to abortion in the United States. She made the argument that Roe v. Wade may have impeded and continues to impede progress toward reproductive freedom for women rather than advanced it. Read More

USA Baseball announced today that Tim Corbin of Vanderbilt University will serve as head coach of the 2006 USA Baseball National Team that will represent the United States this summer. Read More

Hailed as one of the great voices in contemporary literature, Maya Angelou has worn many hats — poet, bestselling author, actress, historian, playwright, civil rights activist, producer and director — and she will share her experiences Monday, Feb. 27, at a public lecture at Vanderbilt University's Memorial Gym. Read More

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More than four decades after a national furor over the expulsion of James Lawson from Vanderbilt University, he will return as a Distinguished University Professor for the 2006-07 academic year. Read More

Sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rodney Stark, who debunks the notion that Christianity has held back scientific progress in his new book, will preview a new project about why religions succeed or fail during a lecture series at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The metals found in stars are the same metals found in your jewelry, a city skyscraper and the core of Earth. This program discusses how these metals formed and their state inside stars. Guest speaker is Dr. Arnold Heiser, professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University, whose research is in variable stars. Read More

Members of the Vanderbilt University and Nashville communities will gather for a candlelight vigil honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. in the university's Benton Chapel. Read More

James Ransome, illustrator of more than 50 children's books, will deliver the Vanderbilt Peabody College 2006 Martin Luther King Lecture Thursday, Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. His lecture, "A Painterly Palette of My Life," will take place in the Wyatt Center Rotunda and is free and open to the public. Read More

Vanderbilt will add women's swimming as a varsity sport by the fall of 2007, possibly sooner, as the result of an internal periodic review of its athletic program. This addition helps insure that the institution is providing opportunity for its student body to compete at the highest levels of intercollegiate athletics. Read More

John Douglas, former special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has hunted some of the most notorious criminals of our time and he will share an inside look during a free public lecture at Vanderbilt University, Thursday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. Read More

Ed Colker, a noted print-maker and book publisher, will address "Modern Arts of the Book," at 4:10 pm. on Jan. 16 in 114 Furman Hall. A reception will follow his illustrated lecture, which will cover many of the major art movements of the 20th century. Read More