Year: 2006

Jan O. Pedersen, chief scientist for search and marketplace with Yahoo!, has cancelled his Nov. 30 speaking engagement at Vanderbilt. Peterson was to lecture on "Web Search: How Does it Work?" Read More

The challenges of evaluating the moral complexities of people‘s actions in war — military and civilian — propelled Vanderbilt University historian Michael Bess to write about World War II, a conflict that he said is too often depicted in morally simplistic terms. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt chemists whose work could make the light bulb pass√à and cut electricity consumption by half are among the recipients of Popular Mechanics magazine‘s 2006 Breakthrough Awards. Read More

A team of students from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management won first place at the 11th annual International Case Competition Nov. 10-11 at Carnegie Mellon University‘s Tepper School of Business. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center‘s vice chancellor for Health Affairs, Harry R. Jacobson, M.D., has announced the creation of the Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair to be held by Pat Levitt, Ph.D., the director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

A Vanderbilt student has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to study in England.John Jumper hopes for placement at the University of Cambridge, where he would use the scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics. The senior in the College of Arts and Sciences has already taken enough of the graduate curriculum in physics to gradate with a master‘s degree. Read More

Nattaly Perryman, a junior majoring in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, is the first recipient of the Global Leaders scholarship from American Airlines. The scholarship is a partnership between the Vanderbilt University Study Abroad Office and American Airlines. Read More

A Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) LifeFlight helicopter touched down at Arnold Engineering Development Center‘s (AEDC) airfield recently as part of a training effort to conduct airborne emergency evacuation familiarization training. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has achieved designation as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Read More

Much like the electrical wiring in your house, the nerves in your body need to be completely covered by a layer of insulation to work properly. Instead of red, white or black plastic, however, the wiring in the nervous system is protected by layers of an insulating protein called myelin. Read More

Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., has been named the 2006 recipient of the American Heart Association‘s Basic Science Research Award. Read More

An international student adviser and a professor from Vanderbilt University were awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2006-07 academic year, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Read More

Vanderbilt University community members who want to "think locally and act globally" have a new resource on campus — the Vanderbilt International Office (VIO). The office opens officially on Nov. 15 — during International Education Week (Nov. 13-17). Read More

Gina Frieden, assistant professor of human and organizational development, led a lunch discussion on balancing the demands of life in graduate school. The event was part of the "Women in Academe" series. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has established a Board of Visitors, an advisory group of leading corporate executives, to further strengthen its connection and ensure relevance to the national and international business communities, Dean Jim Bradford announced. Read More

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos, has cancelled her speaking engagement at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Read More

Best-selling author John M. Barry will speak Thursday, Nov. 30, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

Election outcome helps put to rest one of the oft cited pieces of conventional wisdom about negative campaigning -- that attack advertising depresses turnout, says John Geer, professor of political science. Read More

Vanderbilt University students are hosting a "mini marathon" event Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 3 p.m. to generate excitement about and participation in Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run fundraising event held each February. Money raised through Dance Marathon benefits the Children‘s Miracle Network, which directly benefits local network member the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt ranks fourth among the nation‘s top universities in the percentage of African Americans who make up the current freshman class, according to a survey by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Read More