Year: 2011

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Spring Faculty Meeting, including the announcement and presentation of VUSM faculty awards, will be held 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, in Room 208 Light Hall. Read More

Sarratt Student Center (Vanderbilt University) Reservations and Events will begin taking requests for standing reservations for meeting space for both the 2011 Fall Semester and the 2012 Spring Semester beginning, Wednesday, April 20, at 8 a.m. You may make your requests: in person: 100 Sarratt Student Center… Read More

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a hard man. Unsentimental, he earned a national reputation for taking care of himself. When the Civil War began, no one imagined he would turn out to be a selfless patriot. Read More

Editor GayNelle Doll Art Director and Designer Donna DeVore Pritchett Editorial Associate Editor and Advertising Manager Phillip B. Tucker Arts & Culture Editor Bonnie Arant Ertelt, BS’81 Class Notes and Sports Editor Nelson Bryan, BA’73 Photography and Imaging Director, Photography Services Daniel… Read More

High-Heel Neil I loved Ridley Wills’ story about Neil Cargile [Fall 2011, Southern Journal, “High Flyer”]. Neil and I were Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers at Vanderbilt. As far as I know, neither I nor any other SAE member was crazy enough to fly with him. But he could dance… Read More

T.J. Stiles T.J. Stiles won the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Stiles, who is also the author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, served as… Read More

Three weeks before her son’s scheduled kidney transplant, Melody McDonald received a heart wrenching text message: the surgery is off. Read More

Early Civil Rights period focus of discussion Eric Etheridge, Charles Euchner and Alex Heard – three Vanderbilt University alumni who have written important books about the early years of the Civil Rights Movement – will return to their alma mater for a discussion and book… Read More

A week after the March tsunami that devastated Japan, students gathered for a candlelight vigil in Benton Chapel. The Asian American Student Association, Asian American Christian Fellowship, Korean Undergraduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University Chinese Association and Vanderbilt Hillel organized the event. PHOTO BY MARY DONALDSON… Read More

News You Can Use http://news.vanderbilt.edu/research Wondering how NASA would care for a sick astronaut during a manned mission to Mars? Curious about whether eating more curry could help prevent tumor development? Then look no further than Research News @ Vanderbilt. With the aim of making science more… Read More

Three Receive NSF Awards Dickerson Three junior faculty members—Assistant Professor of Physics James Dickerson, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Hak-Joon Sung, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert J. Webster III—have been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development grants. Dickerson has pioneered methods for making freestanding, transportable… Read More

NOTE: For information about other transit initiatives affecting the VU / midtown area (vanpools expansion, regional express bus service direct to VU, contact jack.jakobik@vanderbilt.edu Broadway/West End Corridor Study meetings scheduled for April 14-15 Public invited to provide input on transportation alternatives Two public meetings and two information stations… Read More

Robert Barksy A new book about linguist and social activist Zellig Harris will be celebrated with a reading and reception April 22 featuring author and Vanderbilt University professor Robert F. Barsky. Barsky, professor of French and comparative literature, has written extensively about linguist Noam Chomsky. Chomsky recommended… Read More

Stop by and have your weight, blood pressure and body mass index checked. Orthopaedic Clinic MCE South Tower, Room 4402E Wednesday, April 13 9 -11 a.m. Loews Vanderbilt Room 905 Thursday, April 14 11 a.m. -1 p.m. New! You can now view your… Read More

Cultural diversity in the workforce may create both opportunities and potential complications. Differences in language and in the meaning of words and phrases may sometimes complicate communication. These, in turn, may create potential stressors for both the International employee and for their supervisors and colleagues. This presentation explores the… Read More

A blooming star magnolia tree softens the straight lines of the Annette & Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library in the background. Photo by Mary Donaldson… Read More

A new view of Vanderbilt University—its people, places and events—is being showcased each day in 2011 on 365@VU, a new stream on the photo-sharing website Flickr. The project features a new photo by Vanderbilt’s photography services team each day. Photographers share their perspectives on the life of… Read More

Helping to foster children’s learning and readiness for school through the federal Head Start program is the goal of a new National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning, created last fall with a $40 million grant from the Office of Head Start. Peabody College is one of… Read More

Vanderbilt is proud to announce the birth of a healthy, happy, parent-friendly endeavor: Baby Time, an iPhone application for expectant parents. The free app, brainchild of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Medical Center’s Department of Strategic Marketing, is designed to help expectant… Read More

Matthew Springer, director of the National Center on Performance Incentives, is one of the Peabody researchers who will be presenting new research at the American Educational Research Association Conference in New Orleans April 8-12. (Anne Rayner / Vanderbilt) The latest research on the nation’s key education issues, from incentive pay… Read More