Year: 2012

image courtesy of the 'Waikato Times' The Vanderbilt community is invited to attend “An Evening of Jane Austen Dances” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 in Alumni Hall’s Ballroom 203. Susan Kevra (Steve Green/ Vanderbilt) Author Jane Austen loved to dance and references the English… Read More

Vanderbilt University Centennial Professor of Philosophy John Lachs will discuss “The Cost of Comfort” Feb. 1 when Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box starts its new series at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

Two years after losing his leg in a shark attack, Craig Hutto became the test pilot for a unique and powerful new prosthetic leg being developed by mechanical engineer Michael Goldfarb and his team at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Beth Halteman Harwell, one of the most powerful and politically connected women in the state of Tennessee, began her political profession in the classroom. Read More

Two Peabody College graduate student researchers partnered with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to shine a light on the scourge of human sex trafficking, resulting in changes to Tennessee law. Read More

In the history of collegiate football, only a handful of names are considered to be among the best ever. Among that elite group is Bobby Bowden, who came to Peabody in 1953 to earn a master’s degree so he could begin a coaching career—a career in which he logged more… Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a search warrant is needed to plant a physical tracking device on a vehicle. But only four members of the court – not a majority – were willing to go further and hold that continuously monitoring such a device for a month is also a search. Read More

All are invited to a free screening of the documentary "The Blues: Feel Like Going Home" 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7, at Sarratt Cinema, introduced by acclaimed music writer Peter Guralnick, who wrote the screenplay for the film directed by Martin Scorsese. Read More

Wendee Hilderbrand Nashville lawyer Wendee Hilderbrand, a 2004 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, was honored with the state’s top award for pro bono work at the Tennessee Bar Association’s recent public service luncheon. Held each year as part of the association’s leadership conference,… Read More

  (Vanderbilt University) Health Plus, in collaboration with the Occupational Health Clinic and Work/Life Connections, is sponsoring an educational blood pressure program on campus for all full-time, benefits-eligible Vanderbilt employees, their spouses and dependents. The program will offer six one-hour classes each Wednesday… Read More

Update: In anticipation of there being greater interest than the available venue will accommodate for this evening’s town hall meeting on the university’s nondiscrimination policy, the university has scheduled a live webstream of the event. It should be accessible at 6:15 p.m. to anyone on the Vanderbilt network. Read More

Therapeutic agents focusing on the brain region involved in stress-induced relapse may be effective in preventing relapse in patients with alcohol use disorders. Read More

On Sunday, Jan. 22, at 8:01 p.m., Metro Nashville Police requested the assistance of Vanderbilt University Police regarding an armed robbery at the Jack-in-the-Box restaurant at 2008 West End Ave. Employees there reported that a suspect entered the restaurant and ordered them to the rear of the business at… Read More

Teacher salaries are largely set by schedules which are neither performance-related nor market-driven and have significant consequences on school staffing and workforce quality, new research from the National Center on Performance Incentives finds. “We know the way in which we currently compensate K-12 public school teachers is incredibly inefficient,” said… Read More

Ellen Goldring New research from the National Center on School Choice reveals little difference among school leaders across public, private and choice schools. Although much research exists regarding the impact of school leaders on school improvement, little is known about whether principals in choice schools exhibit more… Read More

Fort Worth Independent School District is the latest partner in a national center at Peabody that aims to identify programs, practices, processes and policies that make some high schools more effective at reaching low-performing students. Fort Worth Independent School District, or FWISD, officially joined the National Center on Scaling Up… Read More

The Peabody College building that houses the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, the Department of Special Education and the Susan Gray School has received a new name. Known in recent years as the MRL building, the original Mental Retardation Laboratory located on Magnolia Circle and backing 21st Avenue is… Read More

Bickman Chatman Cho Erickson Ford Hughes Milner Murry Leonard Bickman, Betts Professor of Psychology, received the American Evaluation Association’s 2011 Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice… Read More

Jason Grissom Carrie A. Kortegast Christine Quinn Trank Carrie Masten Kristopher Preacher Erik Carter The Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations welcomed three new faculty members this fall: Jason Grissom, assistant professor of public policy and education; Carrie A. Kortegast, assistant professor of the practice of higher education; and Christine… Read More

Avi Richman (left) and Hada Flores (right, speaking) with Xiu Cravens, associate dean of international affairs, at a September poster event at the Wyatt Center highlighting students’ summer internship experiences. Richman and Flores are students in the master’s program in International Education Policy Management for those who… Read More