Year: 2010

Vanderbilt University continues its Saturday University series this spring, with five lectures by faculty focusing on works of art in the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Collection. Read More

Two Vanderbilt professors have issued the fourth edition of their iconic textbook, Advanced Accounting (John Wiley and Sons). The authors, Debra Jeter and Paul Chaney, say each new edition adapts to changes in accounting standards and laws. Read More

Derek John Waller, a retired Vanderbilt University political scientist who taught and wrote extensively about the politics of Communist China, died on Dec. 31, 2009. The Sewanee, Tenn., resident, who was 72, had suffered from pancreatic cancer. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Douglas A. Blackmon will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture on Jan. 19 at the Vanderbilt Law School. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 3:30 pm in Flynn Auditorium. Read More

Vanderbilt Centennial Professor of Philosophy John Lachs has proposed that legislators be tested on their specific knowledge of bills under consideration in Congress. Lachs is dismayed that several national lawmakers have admitted recently to not reading the material on which they are voting. Read More