Year: 2007

Vanderbilt Student Government (VSG) is sponsoring a campuswide day of remembrance Monday, April 23, during which students, faculty and staff are being encouraged to wear the Virginia Tech colors — maroon and orange — as a symbol of remembrance and hope. Read More

A man with no prior history of sexual misconduct was caught trying to molest a child. A brain scan found that he had a large tumor pressing on his right frontal cortex. When the tumor was removed, he no longer wanted to molest children. A suicidal man tried to kill himself with a crossbow. When the arrow went into his skull, the damage done to his prefrontal cortex reversed his anti-social tendencies. Read More

The Vanderbilt women's bowling team made history when they won the NCAA national championship April 14, 2007. Read More

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold a ban on a type of late-term abortion. The court found that the national Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, passed in 2003, does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Read More

Vanderbilt Student Government will have a table at Sarratt Student Center where members of the Vanderbilt community can express their support for Virginia Tech by signing a message book that will be sent to the school. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are available to offer insights on the potential circumstances surrounding school violence and the impact of the tragic April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech on students, faculty and staff. Read More

In the children's game "red light green light," winners are able to stop, and take off running again, more quickly than their comrades. New research reveals that a similar race goes on in our brains, with impulse control being the big winner. Read More

Dear Members of the Vanderbilt Community, Today our support goes out to our colleagues, our peers, our brothers and sisters at Virginia Tech. Words fail to encompass a calamity of such magnitude. At this raw stage, we can offer our attention, our consideration, and our sympathy. We respond with… Read More

Global warming activist Laurie David and Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow will come to Vanderbilt University Wednesday, April 18, for a campus-only event as part of their Stop Global Warming College Tour. Read More

Charles F. Bolden Jr., former NASA astronaut and retired major general with the U.S. Marine Corps, will share his experiences Friday, April 20, at 1 p.m. at Vanderbilt University's Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Read More

The Vanderbilt women's bowling team won the NCAA championship April 14 with their win over the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Apoka, Fla. The win marks the first NCAA championship in Vanderbilt history. Read More

Free tax preparation for qualified individuals will be offered Saturday, April 14, at the Vanderbilt-Edgehill Volunteer Income Tax Site (VITA) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nashville's newest VITA site is located at the Easley Community Center at 1000 Edgehill Ave. This is the last day the site will be open before this year's tax-filing deadline of April 17. Read More

Are people currently in their 20s and 30s the first generation that won't do financially better than their parents? Columnist and author Anya Kamenetz poses this question in her book Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to be Young and will discuss her findings Tuesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in Room 114 of Vanderbilt University's Furman Hall. Read More

Copyrights play an integral role for writers and artists. And in this day of Web sites and Internet downloading, copyright rules are evolving. The United States Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, will lead a day-long discussion on the state of copyright law on Friday, April 20 at the Vanderbilt University First Amendment Center. Read More

Major companies across the country are turning to the Accelerator-Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute to get fresh ideas on how to raise their products and programs to a new level. Read More

The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Web, today recognized Vanderbilt University's Exploration Web site as an official honoree, a distinction that recognizes work exhibiting remarkable achievement. The online research magazine is produced by Vanderbilt's Office of Science & Research Communications. Read More

It is no surprise that Fred Thompson has jumped into third place nationally among GOP presidential contenders, even without declaring his candidacy, said Vanderbilt University political scientist John Geer. Read More

Atheism is a religion and it is dominating public schools, says a British philosopher who will speak at Vanderbilt University. Roger Scruton will be the fourth and last speaker in the "Democracy and Moral Conviction" lecture series. Read More

In hip hop music and videos, young black women are consistently portrayed as sexually insatiable vixens willing to debase themselves for the privilege of even the shortest ride on the music industry party train. Read More

In this day and age women are CEO's, senators, construction workers, stock brokers, economists and more. Women have made their way into every aspect of the workforce and comprise 46 percent of employees. Yet women consistently earn less than men. Read More