Month: March 2012

Anton Gunn Anton Gunn, Region IV director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will discuss “Health Care Reform and New Medical Care Models” from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 21. The lecture will be held in Medical Center North, Room C2209. Gunn’s talk is part… Read More

Engineering professor Sankaran Mahadevan and his colleagues develop computer models that can predict whether complex structures and systems will fail, when failure is likely to occur, and how to prevent such failure. When you take a plane trip, drive across a bridge, or ride the commuter train to work, you… Read More

The struggle against juvenile crime may come down to one simple question: Do we want revenge, or do we want results? If we want results, says Christopher Slobogin, the Milton Underwood Professor of Law at Vanderbilt, we should reform the system dramatically to stress community-based treatment over incarceration. “The bottom… Read More

Four Peabody College members will be inducted into the 2012 AERA Fellows class. Read More

Students enjoy using the renovated Parkes Armistead Reading Room at Vanderbilt's Central Library. (Vanderbilt University) A survey that should take only five to 10 minutes for you to complete will help guide future priorities for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library system and all of its libraries and… Read More

Recycled "tin man" (image courtesy of SustainVU/Vanderbilt University) With recycling bins in most hallways and break rooms throughout Vanderbilt’s campus, it’s easier than ever to “pitch in.” Doing so through the end of March will help Vanderbilt’s standings in the annual Recyclemania challenge. RecycleMania began in… Read More

  Documentarians Michael Moore and Ken Burns at work Calling all would-be Ken Burns and Michael Moores on campus: The Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) is challenging students to create three-minute videos that celebrate American innovation. The basic instructions from TFAI are: “The… Read More

A Vanderbilt Law School team — including members Joshua Downer, Taylor Downer, Mark Hammervold, Tracy Hancock and Katherine Horton — won first place in the regional competition of the 2012 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Denver, Colo. Read More

Emily Klick and Joshua Rabon (Vanderbilt University) Emily Klick and Joshua Rabon, both members of the Class of 2012, won the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation Law’s 2012 Law Student Tax Challenge. The semifinal and final rounds of the competition were held at the section’s midyear meeting in… Read More

A method for taking ultrafast "sonograms" of materials undergoing phase transitions sheds new light on the dynamics of this important phenomenon in the world’s fastest phase-change material. Read More

(image courtesy of OTLM/Vanderbilt) The Office for Teaching and Learning in Medicine is now accepting proposals for Great Ideas in Vanderbilt Medical Education (GIVME), which seeks to fund innovative pilot research and development projects for teaching and learning at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt School of Medicine faculty,… Read More

  Steven Tepper (Vanderbilt University) Steven Tepper, assistant professor of sociology and associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt, will give a Night at the Library lecture Wednesday, March 21. Tepper will speak in the auditorium at the… Read More

(iStockphoto) Kids and Kites Day, co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity, is scheduled for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at the Bicentennial Mall. The public is invited to bring a kite, family members, lawn chairs, a pair of comfortable shoes and lots of… Read More

Vmail mailbox migration starts in April. (iStock photo) Information Technology Services will begin migrating Vmail mailboxes from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 in April. For the majority of the Vanderbilt community, this process is not expected to pose any issues. For users who are still… Read More

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Because racial identification is much more fluid in Latin America and the Caribbean than it is in the United States, researchers with Vanderbilt’s Latin American Public Opinion Project used actual skin color rather than racial identity to examine the effect of ethnicity on equality issues like class and educational attainment. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) The annual Spring Faculty Assembly is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in Langford Auditorium. Opening remarks will be provided by Faculty Senate Chair David Weintraub. The faculty presentation will be performed by Blair School of… Read More

(Image courtesy of the Vanderbilt Writing Studio) Creativity and the written word will be celebrated at Vanderbilt’s fourth annual Undergraduate Writing Symposium. The event will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 25, at The Commons Center. The symposium will feature Vanderbilt students presenting and… Read More

The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt offers a scenic home for first-year students. (Vanderbilt University/ John Russell) All Vanderbilt faculty, students and staff are invited to help select The Commons Reading for the Class of 2017. The Commons Reading is a book that is mailed to all rising… Read More

March is Women’s History Month, and Vanderbilt is celebrating with a variety of events across the institution. Visit the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center website for a full list of events sponsored by organizations and departments across campus. Contact: Kayce Matthews, (615) 322-4843 kayce.matthews@vanderbilt.edu… Read More