Year: 2011
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Community Research Partners meeting Sept. 9
The Community Research Partners meeting will take place Sept. 9, 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Service Awards Celebration Sept. 13
Those being honored are staff with 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55 and 60 years of service. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Ticket presale for Dierks Bentley event Sept. 8
Award-winning singer and songwriter Dierks Bentley will host “Miles & Music for Kids,” a celebrity motorcycle ride and concert benefiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, on Oct. 16. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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See the women’s basketball photo shoot
The team is gearing up for the fall season, which kicks off in November. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Fall 2011 International Lens schedule announced
The eighth season of International Lens opens Sept. 7 with Musica Campesina, a feature film directed by Alberto Fuguet while he was a visiting professor on campus in 2009. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Get discounts on upcoming TPAC shows
Get TPAC discounts on The Glory Bugles, Blast! and "All My Sons." Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Feedback wanted on future use of Sarratt
The Office of the Dean of Students is seeking input from students, faculty and staff on the future use and design of Sarratt Student Center. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Senior Class Gift Breaks Records
Chairs of the 2010–11 Senior Class Fund student committee present a banner, signed by members of the Class of 2011, to Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos on Senior Day. From left to right are co-chairs Patrick Seamens, BA’11; Aysha Malik, BS’11; Eric Walk, BE’11; and Kate Foster, BS’11, and campaign chair Zach… Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Vanderbilt Rowing gets improved boat dock
Vanderbilt Rowing now has use of a new longer boat dock, thanks to the efforts of a local Boy Scout and the collaboration of the Nashville rowing community. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Nine named to Athletics Hall of Fame
Inductees included Sen. Lamar Alexander and basketball great Will Perdue. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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John Folsom prints feature of Sarratt Gallery exhibit
John Folsom's work is based in photography, but uses traditional paint media to create dreamlike landscapes. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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‘Musica Campesina’ to screen free at Sarratt
'Musica Campesina,' shot in May over the course of six days by Vanderbilt film students and visiting professor Alberto Fuguet, has earned high praise in the festival circuit. Read MoreSep 7, 2011
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Take part in 9/11 commemorative events
Vanderbilt University will observe the tenth anniversary of 9/11 with several public events including musical performances, an interfaith service and a talk by Lawrence Wright. Events are free and open to the public. Read MoreSep 6, 2011
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National Book Award winners to read from work at Vanderbilt
Terrance Hayes and Jaimy Gordon, who each won the National Book Award last spring, will read from their work Sept. 22 at Vanderbilt University as part of the Creative Writing Program’s Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series. Read MoreSep 6, 2011
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A Vineyard Not My Own
On Wednesday, March 7, 2007, I was lying on my bed in the middle of the afternoon, eyes wide open, when my cellphone rang. I hadn’t slept much the night before, or the night before that, for that matter. Although I was utterly exhausted, I knew that sleep would not… Read MoreSep 6, 2011
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Wayfarer on a Dusty Road
Looking back, I wonder whether we should have been in class that morning. It was just before lunch, and I had already missed a few that semester—classes, never lunch—as, unfortunately, my first midterm grades attested. From our residence in Dyer Hall, the path to food at Sarratt took me and… Read MoreSep 6, 2011
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How I Came to the Mountains
When Kathy Hutson came to Big Stone Gap, Va., in the 1960s, she had no peers to help her sort out the parameters of developing and running a school speech therapy program. In the summer of 1963, after my sophomore year in college at Saint Louis University, I came… Read MoreSep 6, 2011
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Bend It Like Barnes
Junior linebacker Archibald Barnes makes working out in 90-degree heat look easy during an early August football practice. For schedules, tickets for Vanderbilt’s first season under Head Football Coach James Franklin, and more, go to http://vucommodores.cstv.com. Photo by John Russell. Read MoreSep 6, 2011
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Pathfinders in Biology
Professor Oswald T. Avery in his laboratory in the current Medical Center North. The photograph, probably dating to 1948, is inscribed to his associate, Dr. Bertram Sprofkin. Two of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, and perhaps of all time, have worked at Vanderbilt. One performed his last… Read MoreSep 6, 2011
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Seedtime & Harvest
Board of Trust Chairman Martha Ingram’s letter to more than 100,000 Vanderbilt alumni and friends in January 2001 announced trustees’ approval of a new fundraising campaign to “turn our aspirations into realities.” Read MoreSep 6, 2011