Year: 2007

To borrow a line from a classic Beach Boys song, all Vanderbilt fans are invited "to be true to their school" on Aug. 31 when the campus community and various area businesses will celebrate College Colors Day. Read More

Centennial Professor of Psychology Randolph Blake has been named chief of staff for the committee that will conduct the search for Vanderbilt's eighth chancellor. Read More

In a Conversation Series, Interim Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos sits down to discuss everything from what it takes to get into Vanderbilt to alumni who live throughout the world. Read More

Corey Slovis, M.D., chair of emergency medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Center, offers the following tips on how to "beat the heat" as summertime temperatures continue to rise. Read More

Camilla P. Benbow, vice chair of President Bush's National Mathematics Advisory Panel and a member of the National Science Board, is available to talk about the importance of funding math and science education to the United States' ability to compete globally. Read More

Ken Galloway, dean of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering, has won the prestigious Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS). Read More

Vanderbilt University opened its new online front door Aug. 1 with a redesigned homepage designed to get viewers to their destination quickly while showcasing university events using video, audio, photography and news. Read More

Sherif Barsoum, assistant director in the Office of International Education at The Ohio State University, has joined Vanderbilt University as director of International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS). Read More

The Master of Liberal Arts and Science program, Vanderbilt University's prime educational outreach program to the Nashville community, is attracting record numbers of students and expanding course offerings. Read More

Chancellor Search Committee Chair Dennis Bottorff announced July 31 the members of the Advisory Committee of faculty, students and staff that will assist the Board of Trust as it seeks to identify the next chancellor of Vanderbilt University. The Advisory Committee will be chaired by Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler. Read More

For the first time in more than three decades, a multi-center team of researchers has uncovered a gene linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) that could pave the way for future research and treatment options. Read More

Harmon L. Wray, an instructor at Vanderbilt Divinity School and a longtime anti-death penalty activist and proponent of restorative justice, died Tuesday at Saint Thomas Hospital, a day after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Read More

Another Supreme Court term has come to a close, and, while many things changed in the law, one thing stayed the same: The justices spent much of their time reversing the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read More

The fourth Bluebird on the Mountain concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, and promises to be on of the highlights of this year's series. Singer-songwriters Don Schlitz, Thom Schuyler and Fred Knobloch, whose work dominated the country charts in the 1980s and '90s, will perform at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Harmonica player Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson will also perform at the concert. Read More

Nearly 50 years ago, Karsten Solheim, working from his garage, developed the first PING 1-A Putter. PING's innovative products and services, among them custom fitting and perimeter weighting, have since changed the industry. Read More

As it seems, Nashville's shining star in big-time sports may have been tarnished by recent events. Our proud Predators have been left in limbo, abandoned by lame-duck ownership. The Sounds ballpark deal imploded from internal squabbling between owner and developer. Fortunately, everything is not as it seems. Music City is still a big-time player in the pro sports game. Read More

One of the nation's most respected political scientists and a prominent young political leader will team up at Vanderbilt University to teach a unique course in which students create strategies on how best to win the 2008 Democratic and Republican presidential nominations. Distinguished Professor of Political Science John Geer and former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. will co-teach "Capturing the 2008 Presidential Nominations." Read More

Nashville executive and Vanderbilt Board of Trust Vice Chairman Dennis C. Bottorff will chair the search committee charged with identifying the next Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, Board of Trust Chairman Martha R. Ingram announced on Thursday. Read More

Members of the Vanderbilt community and its neighbors had the opportunity to learn more about the candidates and issues in the Aug. 2 local election at today's "Meet the Candidates" picnic on Olin Lawn. More than 70 percent of Vanderbilt's approximately 20,000 employees live in Davidson County. Read More

At 11 a.m. this morning the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt will formally announce the appointment of Kevin Churchwell, M.D., as the hospital's new CEO.Churchwell, a Nashville native, Vanderbilt-educated physician and nationally recognized pediatrician, has been selected as chief executive officer and executive director of Children's Hospital, effective immediately. Read More