Month: April 2010

Watch video of SANKOFA, Vanderbilt’s African Drumming and Dance Ensemble. The April 5, 2010, performance took place in Ingram Hall at Blair School of Music. Gyane Kwame Ahima, director. Media Contact: Cindy Steine cindy.steine@vanderbilt.edu… Read More

Watch video of a talk by Jonathan Culler of Cornell University. Read More

Watch video of the April 30 DigitalVU meeting. Read More

Although Robert Scherrer, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University, is a highly regarded cosmologist and an award-winning teacher, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has selected him as the 2010 recipient of its Klopsteg Memorial Award based on his work as a published science fiction writer. Read More

A Vanderbilt University professor whose expertise is medieval and Renaissance European history has been named a 2010 Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read More

The Vanderbilt Orchestra, Robin Fountain conducting, in performance on April 14, 2010 in Ingram Hall. The concert features winners of the 2009 Blair Student Concerto Competition. Media Contact: Cindy Steine cindy.steine@vanderbilt.edu… Read More

Blair Big Band, directed by Billy Adair, performing on April 15, 2010, in Ingram Hall. Media Contact: Cindy Steine cindy.steine@vanderbilt.edu… Read More

The latest research on the nation’s key K-12 and higher education issues, from No Child Left Behind to charter schools to higher education funding, will be presented by Vanderbilt University Peabody College researchers April 30-May 4 at the American Educational Research Foundation annual conference in Denver, Colo. Read More

An interdisciplinary research project at Vanderbilt, in partnership with the ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, has commissioned a piece of original music from award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank. This fall the piece will be premiered and recorded by ALIAS, which includes musicians from the Blair School. Read More

Vanderbilt Professor of Physics Paul Sheldon heads a multi-institutional team that has received an Internet2 award for a networking system that they have developed to make it easier to move and store mountains of digital data. Read More

Listen to a segment from HHS HealthBeat with Ira Dreyfuss. Read More

An April 28 incident involving a Metro Nashville police officer and a suspect he was attempting to apprehend in a garage adjacent to the Vanderbilt campus involved no one affiliated with Vanderbilt. The incident was confined to the garage of the 2525 West End office building and ended quickly with the suspect being taken into custody. Vanderbilt police responded to assist the Metro police in containing the scene. Read More

As the Obama administration researches candidates to succeed retiring Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, Vanderbilt experts are ready to weigh in on Justice Stevens, the Supreme Court and the list of potential nominees. Read More

A poet at Vanderbilt University was named one of "Forty Favorite Poets" by Essence magazine in honor of its 40th anniversary. Stephanie Pruitt, who will receive her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing May 14 at Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremonies, was listed alongside such luminaries as Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Marilyn Nelson and Gwendolyn Brooks. Read More

James Robert Wesson, a mathematician at Vanderbilt University and author of an influential algebra textbook, died April 25 at McKendree Health Center. He was 88. Read More

"In the non-legal context, genocide has come to be thought of as the epitome of ’evil,’" writes Vanderbilt philosopher Larry May in his new book, Genocide. "Some authors have argued that we should regard genocide as merely a plain fact that should not be further investigated lest we risk that our explanations and conceptual inquiries will be mistakenly seen as forgiveness for the horror of what genocide is." Read More

Children with dyslexia often struggle with reading, writing and spelling, despite getting an appropriate education and demonstrating intellectual ability in other areas. New neurological research from Vanderbilt University has found that these children’s difficulties with written language may be linked to structural differences within an important information highway in the brain known to play a role in oral language. Read More

The Blair Chamber and Concert Choirs, directed by David Binns Williams, performing their spring 2010 concert on April 11 in Ingram Hall. Media Contact: Cindy Steine cindy.steine@vanderbilt.edu… Read More

The head of a charitable foundation, three businessmen and a graduating Ingram Scholar are the newest members of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Board of Trust Friday unanimously elected New York businessman Mark F. Dalton as its chairman-elect, to succeed Martha R. Ingram, who will step down in June 2011. Read More