Year: 2007

Will people learn to be more tolerant in the 21st century than we are now? That's the question the current chief justice of Canada's Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, will discuss when she speaks at Vanderbilt Law School April 5 at 3:30 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read More

"I Got a Woman" was a No. 1 R&B hit for Ray Charles in 1955, but the scope of both the song's origins and influence are still largely unappreciated. Read More

Vanderbilt University has named Clinical Professor of Management David Owens to assistant to the provost for strategic process innovation. Read More

If Alberto Gonzales survives a growing loss of support on Capitol Hill, the standoff between the executive branch and Congress over whether to require sworn testimony from Bush aides is not likely to reach the courts, according to Vanderbilt University judicial expert Stefanie Lindquist. Read More

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, an expert in women's studies with a particular interest in the lives of African American women, will give Vanderbilt University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's annual lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

The author of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, which has been called the Dilbert of academia, will speak at Vanderbilt University about "The Power of Procrastination." Read More

Historian Wilson Miscamble will explore Harry Truman's sudden transition to the presidency when Franklin Roosevelt died and its true impact on the outbreak of the Cold War in a Vanderbilt University public lecture on March 26. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will participate in a large-scale national clinical trial to learn if the nutritional supplement creatine can slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. Read More

Watch live streaming video of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. delivering the third of the three 2007 Impact lectures at 7:30 p.m. March 21. Read More

As many as 30 percent of chemotherapy patients suffer from chemo fog causing moderate cognitive brain impairment. With funding help from athlete and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are studying how to clear chemo fog. Barb Cramer has the story. Read More

Watch video of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich delivering the second of the three 2007 Impact lectures March 20 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt University is recruiting local families to take part in a study that is examining ways to help families cope with depression. The study, named the Raising Healthy Children Project, is part of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study designed to decrease depression among children. Read More

Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D., wants to bring back the one-room schoolhouse. Read More

"It's time to regulate the airline industry; customers need a passengers' bill of rights." A recent massive snowstorm grounded and delayed hundreds of flights across the country. While many airlines found successful ways to handle the delays, some Jet Blue customers were trapped on planes for more than nine hours, with overflowing toilets. Other passengers were forced to camp out for days at airports, with no clear solution from Jet Blue. Airline expert Michael LaprÈ believes this latest evidence of "massive miscalculations from the airlines," shows that it is time for regulation. Read More

Fifty years ago, two men took a bold step for themselves and for the future of Vanderbilt University Law School. Shortly after the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, and after strong encouragement from the law faculty, Vanderbilt Law School broke the color barrier and became the first privately funded law school in the South to admit African American students. Read More

More than 4 billion people around the world are considered poor, earning an average of $2 a day. A highly motivated group of Vanderbilt students want to change that statistic and is inviting fellow students to come together to share ideas. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been recognized for the eighth consecutive year as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, in a study by Solucient Institute. Read More

Patricia Pierce, who has been in a leadership role with Vanderbilt University's Opportunity Development Center almost from its inception, will retire April 30. Read More

The Vanderbilt women's basketball team, winner of the SEC Championship, joins our men's team in NCAA tournament play this weekend. We take a CloserVU of Senior Dee Davis (video). Read More

Efforts by the Vanderbilt Child and Family Policy Center and other groups to sustain community partnerships that help Tennessee teens aging out of foster care are making a dramatic difference, according to the co-chair of the Tennessee Youth Advisory Council. Read More