Year: 2007

William G. (Bill) Christie, the Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Finance and professor of law at Vanderbilt University is now the new associate dean for faculty development at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Public opinion polls in the Nashville mayoral contest (and other multi-candidate races) should be analyzed with care because of the high potential for error, according to Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Political Science John Geer. Read More

The United States premiere of Australia's BalletLab and a performance by the Kronos Quartet highlight the 33rd season of Great Performances at Vanderbilt, Nashville's longest running and only international performing series. The season will also bring a residency at Vanderbilt by the JosÈ LimÛn Dance Company. Read More

Gordon Gee will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt's chancellor to return to Ohio State University as its president, a position he previously held from 1990 to 1997. His resignation is effective Aug. 1. Vanderbilt Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nicholas S. Zeppos has been named interim chancellor effective Aug. 1, Board of Trust Chairman Martha R. Ingram announced on July 12. Read More

Four young men stand on the edge of a stage, eyes closed and backs facing the room. More young men stand below, some poised for action and others distracted with horseplay. Read More

Gordon Gee will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt University's chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990 to 1997. His resignation is effective Aug. 1. Read More

In a court of law, a person is innocent until proven guilty. But when a person's photograph and arrest information are posted on television newscasts, newspapers, radio reports and Web sites, he or she is essentially being painted as a criminal before being tried by a judge or jury. That's the opinion of University Professor of Constitutional Law & Health Law & Policy James Blumstein. Blumstein is going to U.S. District Court on July 11 to convince a judge to enforce a 33-year-old court order that bans Nashville Metro Police from giving out raw arrest information. Read More

The recent school desegregation decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court drive home three important lessons. Read More

Vanderbilt University's "Meet the Candidates" picnic on July 19 is expected to be one of the largest and most colorful political gatherings prior to the Metropolitan Nashville General Election. Live streaming video of the picnic will be available on VUCast, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news, beginning at 11:30 a.m. that day. Archived video will be available after the event Read More

An Op-ed by Claire Smrekar, associate professor of education and public policy, on the recent U. S. Supreme Court ruling regarding race-based assignment plans for the school districts of Louisville, Ky. and Seattle, Wash. Read More

On July 2, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt will begin operating the state's first pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center at a children's hospital. Read More

Vanderbilt University is part of a revolutionary national program aimed at creating more life-like prosthetics for the thousands of amputees in this country. Read More

Anthropologists working on the slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have discovered the earliest-known evidence of peanut, cotton and squash farming dating back 5,000 to 9,000 years. Their findings provide long-sought-after evidence that some of the early development of agriculture in the New World took place at farming settlements in the Andes. Read More

After the Nashville Predators ended their best regular NHL season on the ice with 110 points, absentee owner Craig Liepold (Racine, Wis.) soon sold the proud Preds to Canadian Jim Balsillie (BlackBerry techno-preneur from Hamilton, Ontario) for a cool $220 million. Read More

Today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling to allow issues ads funded by corporations and labor unions to air close to an election has major implications for the 2008 presidential campaign, according to Vanderbilt University political scientist John Geer. Read More

The director of investments at Emory University was named chief investment officer at Vanderbilt University, responsible for managing its $3.4 billion endowment. Read More

The United States Supreme Court is set to make decisions on a number of hotly debated cases and a diverse group of Vanderbilt University experts is ready to talk about those cases. Read More

America's past immigrant experience should be studied by those wanting to overhaul current immigration laws, says historian Gary Gerstle. Read More