Year: 2007

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos, has cancelled her speaking engagement at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 15. Read More

Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics and medical director of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt, is leaving to become chief medical officer and director of the Children‘s Research Foundation at Cincinnati Children‘s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. Read More

Oakley Ray, who taught at Vanderbilt University for more than 30 years and wrote both an enduring textbook and self-help books for the general public, died Feb. 7. He was 76. Read More

The litany of woe has become familiar and seemingly overwhelming. The earth is running out of fossil fuel and facing chaotic weather due to global warming. Water will soon be scarce, and world population continues to explode, taxing diminishing resources. Read More

Starting Feb. 15 Vanderbilt professors will offer informed perspective on the acclaimed exhibition Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Read More

Vanderbilt sophomores Henry Manice and Wil Keenan‘s two-month trip to Uganda last summer changed lives — theirs and the lives of many Ugandan artisans and children. Read More

Afeni Shakur, former member of the Black Panther Party, community outreach activist and mother of slain rap artist Tupac Shakur, is the keynote speaker during a series of events commemorating Black History Month at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Doing spiritually inspired work for the Lord usually begins with the tricky job of persuading someone to donate cold hard cash to the cause. Read More

Researchers will present papers on a series of topics including the impact of agro-terrorism; the role of international agreements in achieving food security; what tragedy teaches us about 100-year-old food laws; food-borne infections and the global food supply and regulating food aid in disasters. Read More

Playboy of the Western World inflamed audiences and caused weeklong rioting when it debuted in the National Irish Theater in Dublin in 1907. It debuts Feb. 16 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Four Gray Line buses idle noisily at the curb by Branscomb Quadrangle as the sun slowly rises over a sleeping Greek Row. A group has quietly gathered on the steps out front -- a mix of students, faculty and staff -- shouldering overnight bags and sipping cups of coffee while members of the media prepare to capture their departure. Read More

Ministers and others interested in combating domestic violence may attend a seminar on Feb. 9 hosted by Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Read More

Civil rights pioneer and Vanderbilt Distinguished University Professor James Lawson will give a lecture at Vanderbilt‘s Benton Chapel on Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt University has advanced one place in one of the principal national rankings of the value of federal research grants awarded to faculty members, according to an annual report compiled by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read More

With the first votes cast in the next presidential election less than a year away, this month C-SPAN debuts the new Campaign 2008 Bus, dedicated to following the action in one of the most competitive races in history. The 45-foot mobile production studio, a revamped version of the network‘s award-winning School Bus, promotes and enhances C-SPAN‘s extensive political coverage by traveling to major political events in battleground states, touring state capitols, and visiting universities and high schools around the nation while meeting with local political leaders and journalists, candidates and voters on the campaign trail. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Engineering is ranked in the top ten universities nationally as measured by the impact that their publications have had on the field. Read More

Like a seed needs soil to grow and flourish, a tumor relies on its environment to grow and spread in the body -- something the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center will be exploring more closely with the help of a new $6.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Read More

Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D., has been selected to lead the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center as interim director. Read More

Vanderbilt University researchers, in conjunction with colleagues at several other institutions, are working on a project that promises significant improvement in the control of proteins for a number of uses, including the detection of chemical and biological weapons. Read More

A new study by a Vanderbilt University professor of law and economics found legal immigrants in the United States with a lighter skin tone made more money than those with darker skin. Read More