Communications And Marketing
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Early named to head Vanderbilts Department of Development and Alumni Relations
Robert L. Early has been named executive associate vice chancellor for the Department of Development and Alumni Relations at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreSep 5, 2002
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Vanderbilt University, Middle Tennessee schools part of landmark national study to determine effectiveness of preschool programs
Vanderbilt University researchers working with 36 preschool classrooms in seven school districts in Coffee, Franklin, Lawrence, Maury, Rutherford and Wayne counties in Tennessee are part of a landmark national study that will for the first time help determine which preschool programs work best for which children. Read MoreSep 4, 2002
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First kosher restaurant in Nashville opens for Vanderbilt students and community
Grins (pronounced greens) is Yiddish for vegetables and the name of Nashvilles first fully kosher restaurant. Located at the new Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life on the Vanderbilt campus, the restaurant is now open to the public for breakfast, lunch and afternoon takeout. Read MoreSep 3, 2002
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Vanderbilt to host Web services technology seminar
The Vanderbilt School of Engineering and the Middle Tennessee Java Users Group will hold a one-day seminar on Web programming technology at the Vanderbilt Stadium Club on Friday, Sept. 27. The topics to be addressed are developing Web services using Java and developing wireless applications using Java. Read MoreAug 27, 2002
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New clinical education program at VU Law School to help domestic violence victims
Victims of domestic violence as well as the future lawyers who will represent this growing constituency will benefit from a nearly $259,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant to Vanderbilt University Law School to establish the first domestic violence clinical training program for law students in Middle Tennessee. Read MoreAug 22, 2002
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Vanderbilt professor wins SAEs distinguished educator award
Vanderbilt Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sankaran Mahadevan has been selected by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) to receive the international 2002 Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award. Read MoreAug 22, 2002
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Vanderbilt invites area merchants to Show Your Gold with back-to-school banner contest
Nashville business owners surrounding Vanderbilt University know when the fall semester is about to begin. The signs are everywhere. More traffic along West End and 21st avenues. More foot traffic on sidewalks and in area shops. And more 20-somethings populating neighborhood restaurants, coffee houses and watering holes. Read MoreAug 21, 2002
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Lunchtime lecture series promises to be both filling and fulfilling
Hungry for knowledge? Thirsty for the truth? Join Vanderbilt University and the Nashville Public Library as they serve up the next round of their popular box lunch and lecture series, back after a summer break. Read MoreAug 21, 2002
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Roads Scholars visit Appalachia colleges, high school
A high school that pulled itself from near extinction and a community college that opens doors of opportunities to rural Tennesseans topped the agenda on the second and final day of the inaugural Vanderbilt Roads Scholars Tour. Read MoreAug 21, 2002
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Traditions and soon-to-be traditions await Vanderbilt students
Their arrival on campus will be followed by a weeks worth of traditions and other eventsthat are expected to become traditions, including the first-ever Founders Walk Aug. 27 through the main University gate by incoming freshmen, who will be greeted by faculty, staff and current students. Read MoreAug 21, 2002
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Peter Cummings Appointed John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering
Peter T. Cummings has joined the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt as the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering. Read MoreAug 21, 2002
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Vanderbilt Roads Scholars Tour stresses closer ties with East Tennessee
The chiefs of Tennessees largest public and largest private universities sat down for dinner last night and vowed cooperation, as the first ever Vanderbilt Roads Scholar Tour ended day one of an excursion designed to strengthen ties between the Nashville school and East Tennessee institutions, businesses and people. Read MoreAug 20, 2002
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ANTs make Marine air operations a picnic
A highly decorated Marine Air Group has begun streamlining its planning and reducing operational risk with a new software system developed at Vanderbilt University and the University of Southern California. Read MoreAug 14, 2002
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Finding sheds new light into mysterious process of cell movement during development
Biologists at Vanderbilt and the University of Missouri have uncovered what could be a major clue into the mysterious molecular processes that direct cells to the correct locations within a developing embryo. Read MoreAug 14, 2002
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21st Avenue pedestrian bridge placement scheduled overnight Saturday
Four cranes will lift two sections of a nearly 100-foot span of steel over 21st Avenue beginning at midnight Saturday as Vanderbilt creates an aerial link between its central campus and the historic Peabody College area. Read MoreAug 14, 2002
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Vanderbilt Chancellor, faculty, students hit the road to enhance Tennessee ties
Political candidates will not be the only ones logging miles on Tennessees highways this summer. For the first time, Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee will hit the road with about 40 newly tenured and newly hired faculty and students to East Tennessee to learn more about the state and to visit areas where Vanderbilt is engaged in community outreach. Read MoreAug 14, 2002
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Vanderbilt professors tout opposing views
On Aug. 17, organizers from Chicago, Atlanta, New York and other major cities across the country hope to attract millions of people to a protest march on the U.S. Capitol, built with slave labor. With the theme You Owe Us, the event hopes to build momentum for paying reparations to the descendants of slaves in America. Lawsuits recently filed in New York and New Jersey seeking $1.5 trillion from major corporations for having wrongly profited from the slave trade promise to further fuel this debate. Vanderbilt faculty are available to offer commentary and insight into widely divergent sides of this issue. Read MoreAug 13, 2002
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Vanderbilt lends support to Mayors First Day Festival at Gaylord
Vanderbilt University will host two educational booths with hands-on science and technology experiments for Metro Schools students during the Mayors First Day Festival Aug. 11 at the Gaylord Entertainment Center. Staff members from Vanderbilts Day On Campus Program and Mel Joesten, professor of chemistry, emeritus, and faculty adviser to Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science, will assist participating students. During one of the experiments, students will discover how to separate colors in the water-soluble ink of a marking pen, utilizing the principles of chromatography. A second experiment teaches students how to develop invisible ink. These experiments are part of the kits that Vanderbilt Volunteers for Science take to Metro Schools throughout the school year. Vanderbilt is a major sponsor of the First Day Festival, which was created by Mayor Bill Purcell to celebrate the first day of school in Metro. Read MoreAug 9, 2002
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Vanderbilt Law School names Sandine assistant dean of student affairs, announces other administrative changes
Vanderbilt University Law School has announced several new and newly promoted administrative staff in student affairs, the legal clinic, alumni and development and information technology. Read MoreAug 8, 2002
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Attention is key to binding the color and shape of bananas and other visual objects
When you gaze at a bowl of fruit, why don\'t some of the bananas look red, some of the apples look purple and some of the grapes look yellow? Read MoreAug 7, 2002