Year: 2011
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Vanderbilt Poll: Economy is troubled and taxing rich is one solution
Tennesseans agree by a wide margin that the economy is the most pressing problem for state and federal government, and many believe higher taxation on the wealthiest Americans is one way to fix it. Read MoreNov 16, 2011
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Francis Fukuyama: “The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution”
Watch video of Stanford professor Francis Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and resident in FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, speaking about his latest book, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Nov. Read MoreNov 15, 2011
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Restaurant at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel offers lunch discount
Image courtesy of Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Nashville The Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Nashville is offering a special discount at its restaurant, Eat, for Vanderbilt faculty and staff this holiday season. Present your Vanderbilt ID for lunch from Nov. 21 to Dec. 31, 2011, and receive a 20 percent… Read MoreNov 15, 2011
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Alcoholics’ ‘injured brains’ work harder to complete simple tasks
Alcoholic brains must work harder to complete simple tasks. Read MoreNov 15, 2011
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Fifteen ways to go green this holiday season
(iStockphoto) The holiday season is traditionally a time of plenty, but it can also be a time of excess. The average American household generates 25 percent more trash during the holiday season. And who has never thrown away freezer-burnt leftovers because nobody got around to eating them? Add in… Read MoreNov 15, 2011
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Andrew Foxwell: How Technology Can Improve Political Dialogue
Watch video of Andrew Foxwell speaking Nov. 14 about the impact of technological advances on dialogue. Andrew Foxwell is the Marketing and New Media Director for iConstituent, a Washington D.C.-based company that works with over half of the United States Congress, focusing on improved online strategy, outreach and advocacy to… Read MoreNov 15, 2011
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Creation of the largest human-designed protein boosts protein engineering efforts
A team of Vanderbilt chemists have designed and successfully synthesized the largest artificial protein using a new approach that greatly expands scientists’ ability to create proteins unknown in nature. Read MoreNov 15, 2011
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Vanderbilt Poll: Tennessee teachers are underpaid, need unions
Most Tennesseans believe that public school teachers are underpaid and many support their right to be represented by unions, according to voters surveyed by the Vanderbilt Poll. Read MoreNov 15, 2011
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Author Francis Fukuyama available to media after Nov. 15 talk at Vanderbilt
Francis Fukuyama, Stanford professor and author of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, will be available to media immediately following his hour-long talk on Tuesday, Nov. 15, that begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Vanderbilt Law School’s Flynn Auditorium. Read MoreNov 14, 2011
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Aurbach honored by Southeastern College Art Conference
"Administrative Trial and Error," part of the Secrecy Series by Michael Aurbach (image courtesy of the artist) Michael Aurbach, professor of art at Vanderbilt, has received the 2011 Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Contemporary Materials from the Southeastern College Art Conference. In 2010,… Read MoreNov 14, 2011
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Holocaust Lecture Series: Isaac Nehama
Watch video of Isaac Nehama speaking at the 2011 Holocaust Lecture Series. Isaac Nehama, a Holocaust survivor from Greece, recounts his experiences as a traditional Sephardic Jew. When German troops began to occupy the area in 1943, Nehma fled to Thessaly. Most of his other family members went into hiding. Read MoreNov 14, 2011
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VUCast: Vanderbilt Bookstore grand opening
This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s weekly newscast highlighting research, experts, students, sports and everything Vanderbilt: experience the grand opening of the new Vanderbilt Bookstore the dangers and solutions for handling old medicine and Peabody through the centuries [vucastblurb]… Read MoreNov 14, 2011
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Green Bag luncheon on sustainable holiday ideas Nov. 16
If you attend at least three Green Bag lunch events you will be entered in a drawing to win prizes. (iStock photo) The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) and the American Studies Sustainability Project will sponsor the third installment of the Green Bag Luncheon… Read MoreNov 14, 2011
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Dykens, UCEDD recognized for service to individuals with disabilities
Elisabeth Dykens (Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt) Individuals and representatives of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) were recognized at the annual conference of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) in early November. The Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to… Read MoreNov 14, 2011
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My Health Chat: Innovation in Heart Care and Genomic Medicine
Have you ever wanted to ask the world’s leading physicians and medical researchers about their work and how it affects you? My Health Chat is your chance. Join Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Dr. Jim Jirjis, as he discusses the latest advancements in genomic medicine and heart care innovations with Dr. Read MoreNov 14, 2011
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Health care crisis subject of School of Medicine Dean’s Lecture
Larry Van Horn (Vanderbilt University) Larry Van Horn, executive director of health affairs at Owen Graduate School of Management, will discuss “Our Health Care Crisis: A Mathematical Examination” from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, in 214 Light Hall. It is the latest installment in the School of Medicine’s Dean’s Lecture… Read MoreNov 14, 2011
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Vanderbilt Poll: Tennesseans stout in support of Herman Cain
Businessman Herman Cain is the favorite of Tennessee voters for the state’s March 6 presidential Republican primary election, but female voters are far less likely to support him. That pattern is unlikely to change in light of allegations of sexual harassment against him, according to a new poll by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreNov 13, 2011
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Five minutes with Writing Studio assistant director Gary Jaeger
Gary Jaeger could probably improve the writing in this magazine standing on his head. A philosopher, writing coach and yogi, Jaeger serves as the assistant director of the Writing Studio and senior lecturer in the philosophy department, as well as a yoga instructor at 12 South Yoga in Nashville. After… Read MoreNov 12, 2011
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Valerie Kazmer Matena, BA’08, and the Spartan Death Race
I didn’t finish the race. Forty hours into the Death Race and a mere five hours from the end, I quit. In my four years as a Vanderbilt athlete, I had never failed to make it to the finish line. I had faced disappointment, failed to meet goals, even finished… Read MoreNov 12, 2011
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Material Research: Çağlar Oskay succeeds by focusing on failure in the real world
Çağlar Oskay is an expert in failure and that makes him—and his work—a success. Oskay, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2006, has focused much of his research on the failure of structures and predicting the lifespan of heterogeneous materials through multiscale computational mechanics. “People… Read MoreNov 12, 2011