Year: 2007

The most unusual sound coming out of the American Symphony Orchestra League's conference in Nashville this week won't be from woodwinds, brass or strings, but rather from the tapping of fingers on computer keyboards. Read More

Emeritus Vanderbilt Law Professor Theodore (Ted) Smedley, who helped define law education at Vanderbilt and who thrust the law school onto the national scene, died of a heart attack June 15. He was 94. Read More

President Bush honored Vanderbilt University's NCAA Champion Women's Bowling team Monday afternoon during a special ceremony on the White House's South Lawn. Read More

Memos in 2002 and 2003 written by White House lawyers to President Bush effectively promoting the use of torture are shocking, but not because of faulty legal arguments, says a Vanderbilt University professor. Read More

Summer solstice, the official start of summer and longest day of the year, falls at 6:08 p.m. on Thursday, June 21. The best place in Nashville to report on astronomy events is the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory, located at one of the highest points in Nashville. Read More

William Carrington Finch, the dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School in the early 1960s and president of two other universities during his career, died June 13 in Nashville. He was 97. Read More

The Colombian government enjoys high levels of citizen support and Colombians trust the democratic system, according to a new survey. Read More

One of the country's most successful airlines is challenging students in the Vanderbilt Accelerator Summer Business Institute to focus their creativity on an area most young people in the "Y-Generation" know better than the back of their hand, the Internet. Read More

A survey shows that Chile is one of the most efficient governments in Latin America. While Chileans perceive their government as very effective at protecting human rights and promoting democracy, they find it less so when it comes to dealing with corruption and unemployment. Read More

Fans' shouts of "black" and "gold" helped fuel a magical journey for the men's baseball team to the SEC championship and beyond. Read More

Award-winning singer-songwriters Mike Reid and Michael Johnson will headline the second Bluebird on the Mountain show of the 2007 season at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

In a way, nanotubes are nature's smallest candles. These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human hair. Read More

A host of higher education and K-12 professionals will descend on the Vanderbilt Peabody campus in June and July for their own form of summer school, the Peabody Professional Institutes. Read More

Young Vanderbilt engineering faculty have netted prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation for their innovations. Read More

The Pentagon is not the first place to which policy makers look for ideas on increasing parental involvement in education, but they should, according to Vanderbilt University education researcher Claire Smrekar. Read More

A public forum to meet the candidates running for the Metropolitan Nashville offices of vice mayor, council-at-large and three council districts surrounding Vanderbilt University will be held on June 14 at Edgehill United Methodist Church. Read More

A study by Vanderbilt's Shari Barkin, M.D., and colleagues found that a high number of families who own guns admit their guns are not always safely stored. As a matter of fact, only one third of the families who took part in the large, national study reported their guns were stored according to recommendations from safety experts. Read More

Vanderbilt writer-in-residence Alice Randall shared her insights on country music lyrics with graduating seniors and their parents as part of the university's Senior Class Day celebration May 10. Read More

Vanderbilt writer-in-residence Alice Randall shared her insights on country music lyrics with graduating seniors and their parents as part of the university's Senior Class Day celebration May 10. Read More

A military judge Monday threw out a war crimes case against Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr. He is accused of the 2002 grenade killing of a U.S. Army soldier in Afghanistan. Khadr was 15 at the time of the alleged attack. Judge Peter Brownback found that the charge sheet did not meet a two-step process defined in the Military Commissions Act. Read More