James E. Rogan, under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), will speak on “The Current State of Patent and Trademark Law in the Global Economy” on March 13 at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More
Aficionados may not only treat their automobiles as if they are people, but it now appears that they recognize their cars with the special part of the brain that is also used to identify faces. And, when they try to identify cars and faces at the same time, they are likely to experience a kind of perceptual traffic jam. Read More
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will discuss her career in theater as Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Lecture Series presents “A Playwright’s Credo (and a wish-list for the theatre)” on Tuesday, March 11, at 6 p.m. in Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. Read More
Craig Kennedy, who, as president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, has extensive knowledge about issues surrounding the strained U.S.-European relations over possible war with Iraq, will speak March 10 at Vanderbilt University. Read More
Vanderbilt will undertake a $2.5 million renovation and expansion of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center in an effort to advance the University's goal of achieving meaningful diversity that will benefit all students, officials announced today. Read More
Mary C. Churchill, a scholar of the interaction between religion and gender in Native American cultures, will deliver the annual Antoinette Brown Lecture in feminism and religion Thursday, March 13. Read More
During the week of March 3 some 300 Vanderbilt University students will stay busy participating in Alternative Spring Break programs at 25 sites across the United States, Mexico and Canada, including two sites in Nashville. Read More
"Brain Blast!" brain games, mind games, and hands-on activities led by Vanderbilt neuroscience undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members Saturday, March 1. Read More
On Friday, Feb. 28, the first rookie class of fire fighters at the Tennessee Fire Service and Codes Enforcement Academy will learn how to properly guide LifeFlight helicopters to a safe landing zone during an emergency. Read More
During four evenings in March Alice Hunt will lead the next Relevant Religion community education class in an exploration of the Dead Sea Scrolls and what they reveal about scripture. Read More
Funding for the center at Fall-Hamilton Elementary School and at Stratton Elementary School will be gone by the end of this school year. Read More
Howell E. Adams, Jr., retired owner and chief executive officer of The Georgia Trane Companies, has been selected to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Read More
Sirens will wail at noon on Saturday, March 1, as Vanderbilt conducts its twice-yearly test of the system designed to warn the campus of imminent danger from tornadoes or violent storms. Read More
The Community Services Directory, the only comprehensive listing of nonprofits and social services throughout Middle Tennessee, is now accessible through a new Web site created by the Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. Read More
The “Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box” series resumes March 5 with a conversation about behavioral genetics led by Vanderbilt Professor of Philosophy David Wood and Ellen Wright Clayton, the Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy at Vanderbilt. Read More
Two Vanderbilt University seniors have been awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships to continue their studies at the University of Cambridge in England. Read More
The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University has announced several new staff members in its information services department and at the school’s Walker Management Library. Read More
Simon Collier, professor of history, died Feb. 20 at Alive Hospice in Nashville after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 64. Read More
The largest AIDS awareness program targeting African Americans will kick off Sunday, March 2. The weeklong program will include special workshops, church services and the opportunity to meet and hear about the successes and struggles of individuals who are living with HIV/AIDS. Read More
Former NASA astronaut Rick Chappell, who directs Vanderbilt University’s Office of Science and Research Communications, will discuss the impact of the Columbia shuttle disaster on the future of America’s space program during a series of videoconferences on Feb. 21 with K-12 students in Texas and Tennessee. Read More