Year: 2007

The public is invited to join over 200 children and their families at the Susan Gray School‘s annual Holidays Around the World celebration Dec. 1. Read More

How much does a pack of cigarettes really cost a smoker? While past studies have focused on the cost of cigarette smoking to society, a new report by two Vanderbilt University professors looks at the cost of smoking per pack in terms of the value of the risks to the smoker‘s life. Read More

Two classes of Americans are developing based on their access to and expertise with technology, according to a new book edited by Bill Ivey and Steven Tepper at Vanderbilt University‘s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy. Read More

There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work. In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite a number of hypotheses, exactly how the microscopic pacemakers in every cell in the body exert such a widespread influence has remained a mystery. Read More

The Nasdaq Stock Market Educational Foundation Inc. has awarded the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management a $45,000 grant to support Owen‘s Financial Markets Research Center (FMRC). Read More

Vanderbilt University leaders will discuss the school‘s storied, and sometimes complicated, relationship with the Nashville community at a public event, Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. Read More

Robert S. Rowe, who guided the Vanderbilt School of Engineering in the 1960s from a mostly technical training unit to one that offered graduate degrees and whose faculty engaged in advance research, died Nov. 3, in Sebring, Fla. He was 87. Read More

Vanderbilt University received 11 MidSouth Regional Emmy nominations in the Advanced Media categories, marking the first time the university has been recognized in the competition for the highest honor in television. Read More

Governor Bredesen has received both praise and criticism for his recent trade mission to China. China is certainly not without its problems, including its human rights record, questionable trade practices and one-party government. But as governor, Bredesen must do what is best for Tennessee. Read More

Residents in Metropolitan Nashville‘s 18th District will celebrate on Nov. 18 longtime successful efforts to preserve and revitalize the area‘s urban neighborhoods. Read More

The Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) has partnered with Vanderbilt University to award the Golden Opportunity Award for the best college-student short-form film. Read More

Residents in Metropolitan Nashville‘s 18th District will celebrate on Nov. 18th longtime successful efforts to preserve and revitalize the area‘s urban neighborhoods. Read More

Lawrence L. Kazmerski, the director of the National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., will give a free public lecture on the prospects of current and coming solar cell technologies on Monday, Dec. 3, on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

Novelist and literary critic David Treuer will read from his work, including a new and not-yet published novel, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Watch video of an Oct. 30, 2007, panel discussion on desegregation, re-segregation, immigration in Nashville schools. Panelists included Vanderbilt education researchers Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring. Read More

Great Performances at Vanderbilt and its director will help the National Dance Project set the agenda for dance in America when it becomes one of 10 "hub sites" that guides the organization that promotes the art form. Read More

The co-writer of the autobiography of Ray Charles, along with the director of the Nashville Jazz Orchestra and Charles‘ longtime saxophonist, will discuss the late music great during "SoBro Sessions: Remembering Brother Ray" at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Friday, November 30. Read More

Carol Swain, professor of political science and law, comments on the recent endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Guiliani by televangelist Pat Robertson. Read More

Mark Johnson, chief information security officer at Vanderbilt University, was recently named the recipient of the Information Security Executive (ISE) National Awards in the academic category for outstanding leadership,contributions and innovative approaches to information security. Read More

Venerable film director Delbert Mann, a Vanderbilt graduate and Emeritus Trustee at Vanderbilt, is dead at 87. Read More