Year: 2006

Watch video of historian Niall Feguson delivering the first 2006-07 Chancellor's Lecture: "The War of the World." Read More

Vanderbilt's Tracy Sharpley-Whiting is the winner of the 2006 Horace Mann Medal. The medal is awarded each year to a Brown University Graduate School alumnus or alumna who has made significant contributions to scholarly research. Read More

"The Shape of Things," by Neil LaBute, will debut Thursday, Sept. 28, at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. The critically acclaimed play follows the moves of an art student who makes it her mission to transform a nerdy, insecure, overweight undergraduate into her confident, stylish, good-looking lover. Although the transformation seems beneficial at first, unpleasant consequences soon ensue. Read More

Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, will speak Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University's Student Life Center. Read More

"Remembering Sept. 11" will be the focus of a Vanderbilt University interactive videoconference on Monday, Sept. 11, with Professor James Booth, whose research includes the remembrance of national events. Read More

Allan Guyet, Vanderbilt University's chief of police for the past eight years, will retire at the end of the year. Read More

An album produced by two Vanderbilt University professors is the first music collection to be added to a National Endowment for the Humanities collection of works which strengthen students' understanding of American history and culture. Read More

The Vanderbilt University community will mark the five-year anniversary of Sept. 11 with a morning remembrance and an open roundtable discussion led by faculty in the afternoon. Read More

Little Texas will perform acoustically at Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory Saturday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. Doors will open at 4 p.m. Tickets are $7 for students, $12 for Vanderbilt University faculty/staff and Bluebird on the Mountain season ticket holders, and $15 for general public. There is also a $50 VIP ticket that will allow for pre-show access and a meet and greet with the band. Read More

Have you considered how many hands it took to get the broccoli you just purchased from the field to your table? Did you know that it quite possibly came from Guatemala? Did you ever consider that someone grew that broccoli for you so they could send their kids to a better school? Read More

The much-loved and long-running science fiction series Star Trek introduced viewers to plenty of fantastical ideasófrom the Borg to Vulcan mind melds to a transporter that could beam humans across space. But behind the lscience fiction lay quite a bit of real science, according to Vanderbilt University psychologist Randolph Blake. Read More

Reflections from the Mexican-United States border by members of the Vanderbilt University community who spent a week traveling the area open the fall semester of community programming offered by Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

U.S. Senate candidates Harold Ford Jr. and Bob Corker will square off for a statewide televised debate at Vanderbilt University's Ingram Hall Oct. 28. Read More

A juice every other day could keep Alzheimer's disease at bay, new research suggests. Read More

About 200 Vanderbilt University students will board buses on Friday, Sept. 1, to travel overnight to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the nationally televised football season opener between Vanderbilt and Michigan on Saturday, Sept. 2. Read More

Feelings of grief, anger and vulnerability over the 9/11 terrorist attacks five years ago remain strong for most Americans, according to James Booth, a Vanderbilt University professor of political science and philosophy. Read More

A new national research and development center has been created at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development to answer one of the thorniest questions in education policy — do financial incentives for teachers, administrators and schools affect student achievement? Read More

Renowned architect William McDonough, a leader in the movement for sustainable architecture and product design, will speak at Vanderbilt University on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Read More

Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, will speak on "The War of the World" on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Vanderbilt University in the inaugural presentation of the 2006-07 Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

Heather Sellers, an acclaimed memoirist, novelist, writing instructor and poet, will read from her work at Vanderbilt University. Read More