Year: 2008

The impact of the nation\'s current economic downturn on low- and moderate-income students is the topic of an all-day national roundtable discussion scheduled for June 13 at Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

Despite what seems like an exhaustive and never-ending primary season for the Democratic presidential candidates, the process actually worked, says Distinguished Professor of Political Science John Geer. The race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has essentially come down to a tie, and the superdelegates are fulfilling their role. Read More

Improving access to college for rural Tennessee students is the aim of a partnership between Vanderbilt University and the state of Tennessee that will bring more than 200 high school students, parents and school administrators to Nashville June 1-5. Read More

Vanderbilt\'s Accelerator program offers undergraduates and recent graduates an intensive immersion in the world of business. Accelerator participants are assigned to competitive teams and are expected to provide solutions to problems and opportunities presented by real corporations. Read More

15 high school students have been selected for Vanderbilt's Young Scholars Medical Program. Read More

The value to society of saving a high-risk youth from a life of crime is between $2.6 million and $5.3 million each at age 18, according to a study by Mark Cohen of Vanderbilt\'s Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Watch video of a roundtable on health care at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville on Tuesday, May 27, with Sen. Bob Corker. Corker organized the roundtable to hear from those who are on the frontlines of the issue as he works in the Senate to reform the country's health care system. Read More

Three Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development faculty have been promoted to associate professor with tenure. The promotions were voted on by Peabody and university-wide faculty committees and confirmed by the Board of Trust at its spring meeting May 15-16. Read More

The effect of the crime rate on overall life satisfaction is relatively small, a Vanderbilt researcher has reported. While public opinion polls show that people think crime should be a high priority for local governments, crime appears to be only a small factor in a person\'s feeling of well-being, according to the study\'s author, Mark Cohen. Read More

Memorial Day week is a time for medical experts to remind families to use extra caution with children swimming in area lakes and pools. From May through August, the Pediatric Emergency Department at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children\'s Hospital at Vanderbilt can expect to see dozens of children injured or killed in accidents involving the water. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center neurosurgeons and neurologists will be online live on Wednesday, May 28, hosting a one-hour Webcast to demonstrate a four-stage innovative technique used for deep brain stimulation (DBS). Read More

Watch video of Amy Jarman, soprano; Jonathan Retzlaff, lyric baritone; Gayle Shay, mezzo-soprano; and Melissa Rose, pianist, perform "Singing Back Through Time: American Song from 2008-1900," which opened the Spring 2008 Faculty Concert Series at the Blair School of Music. Read More

Watch videos from the Study Breaks, Senior Day learning sessions for our guests, conducted by Vanderbilt faculty members Benoit Dawant, Colin Dayan, John Geer, Roy Neel, Claire Smrekar and Sten Vermund. Read More

A Vanderbilt University vice chancellor has been elected to chair the Board of Trustees at Simmons College in Boston. Lauren J. Brisky, vice chancellor for administration and chief financial officer at Vanderbilt, was unanimously elected to a three-year term at the Simmons board meeting in May. Read More

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn), who has dealt with the issue of health insurance as a businessman, as mayor of Chattanooga and as Tennessee's Commissioner of Finance and Administration, will hold a roundtable on health care at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville on Tuesday, May 27. Read More

A Vanderbilt University biologist who studies the genetics of animal development is one of 15 up-and-coming professors to be named a 2008 Searle Scholar, a distinction accompanied by a $300,000 grant for research. Read More

Forty years ago, the United States was engaged in an unpopular war half-way around the world, Richard Nixon was well on his way to claiming the Republican nomination and the Democrats were locked in a struggle to determine whether to continue the policies of the sitting Democratic president or to choose a candidate who opposed the war and other key administration policies. The year was 1968, and the candidate who was trying to convince the nation that a new way of conducting its business was in order was Robert F. Kennedy. Read More

Camilla P. Benbow, dean of Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College of education and human development, has received the 2008 Distinguished Alumna Award from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Benbow will deliver the commencement address at the Johns Hopkins School of Education May 22. Read More

John McCain and Barack Obama, the likely presidential nominees for the GOP and Democrats, will need to run negative ads as they seek to define each other in the general election campaign, says Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer. He and colleague Bruce Oppenheimer are preparing to teach a course on the 2008 elections in the fall. Read More

Construction is under way on the first phase of several multi-million dollar upgrades to Vanderbilt Athletics facilities that promise to benefit both Commodore student-athletes and Vanderbilt supporters for years to come, Vice Chancellor of University Affairs and Student Athletics David Williams II announced at a news conference Tuesday. Read More