Year: 2006

Acclaimed poet Mary Leader will read from her work this month at Vanderbilt University.Leader, author of the award-winning collections Red Signature and The Penultimate Suitor, will read at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28, in Room 101 of Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. The reading is free and open to the public. Read More

Jon H. Kaas, Vanderbilt University Centennial Professor of Psychology, has received the 2006 Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of neurobiology. Read More

Parents of young children with autism need cutting-edge information and high-quality support. Vanderbilt Kennedy TRIAD (Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders) has established a new program for parents of young children who have, or are suspected of having, an autism spectrum disorder. Read More

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and the Center for Nonprofit Management will hold an information session Thursday, Nov. 9, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. regarding how to apply for an annual tuition sponsorship of an area nonprofit executive to attend the Vanderbilt Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Read More

Watch video by Vanderbilt\'s student video bloggers Brittany Adkins and Kris Bahlke about The Commons, a new residential living experience which will bring together all first-year students in a community of 10 residence halls to be known as "houses" on Vanderbilt\'s Peabody College campus. Read More

The Vanderbilt News Service has won the Society for New Communications Research 2006 Award of Merit in the academic / research category for its news Web site, VUCast (www.vanderbilt.edu/news). Read More

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will expand its degree offerings to include a master‘s degree in accountancy beginning in fall 2007.The 10-month program is intended for non-accounting undergraduates who aspire to launch their careers with one of the top five global accounting firms — Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read More

The public is invited to join over 200 children as they celebrate diverse cultures at the Susan Gray School‘s Second Annual Holidays Around the World event Nov. 11 from 5 to 9 p.m. Proceeds from the event will go toward the construction of a new, fully accessible preschool playground at the school. Read More

Talking to Dale Cockrell about his new CD The Arkansas Traveler, it quickly becomes clear that his days as a novice in the music industry have ended. Read More

One of the biggest stories in global financial markets this summer was China‘s switch from pegging its currency to the dollar, to tying the yuan to a basket of currencies. The switch also revalued the yuan by 2.1 percent in relation to the dollar. Read More

Providing charity care to Middle Tennessee‘s most financially vulnerable individuals is an expensive proposition √≥ especially so for a large, comprehensive health care institution such as Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which, in addition to seeing the most patients, also sees the sickest. Read More

In a memorable conclusion to their series of U.S. senatorial debates, Democrat Congressman Harold Ford Jr. and Republican Bob Corker battled Oct. 28 at Vanderbilt‘s Ingram Hall in a question-and-answer-format town hall forum. Read More

It appears to be true – girls can think faster than guys – at least as teenagers. Read More

William B. Akers and Fred J. Cassetty Jr. received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering during the Engineering Celebration Dinner held at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Thursday, Oct. 19. Read More

Atop one of the highest points in the Nashville area, a spiral sculpture of stone is taking shape that will combine art and science in an innovative approach to making science compelling, especially to students. Read More

Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos will talk about her battle with anorexia Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read More

Fleeting mercies, painful secrets, the living and the dead find asylum - even sanctuary - throughout Rick Hilles‘ first published book of poetry. Read More

Vanderbilt experts are available to discuss negative ads, the 2008 presidential election, the war in Iraq and more in relation to Tennessee‘s pivotal Senate race. The candidates, Democrat Harold Ford Jr. and Republican Bob Corker, met at the university on Oct. 28 in a live televised town hall forum. Read More

Wit‘s End, a classic romantic comedy about lovers searching for companionship and enlightenment in a battle between the heart and mind, debuts Nov. 9 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. This modern adaptation of La dama boba was done by Edward Friedman, Vanderbilt professor of Spanish and comparative literature. Playwright Lope de Vega, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was a popular and prolific writer during the siglo de oro, Spain‘s Golden Age of Drama. Read More

No one would have blamed the Rev. James Lawson if he‘d treated his return to Vanderbilt University — nearly four decades after his controversial expulsion — as a feel-good victory lap. The 78-year-old civil rights leader and pastor could have accepted accolades while younger men and women continued the struggles he fought for so long. Read More