Leading international law scholar Charney dies
One of the world’s preeminent experts on international law, Jonathan I. Charney, died at his home here on Sept. 7 after a lengthy illness. Read More
One of the world’s preeminent experts on international law, Jonathan I. Charney, died at his home here on Sept. 7 after a lengthy illness. Read More
Vanderbilt University’s first Arab-American Muslim Student Government Association president, Samar Ali, will join members of the campus community for “A Day of Hope and Remembrance” to commemorate Sept. 11. Read More
For several weeks, merchants in the Vanderbilt area have heralded the return of students to campus with eye-catching banners hung from their storefronts. Now, the University announces the winners of its first-ever “Show Your Gold” banner contest. Read More
Vanderbilt is listed among the nation’s “most competitive” universities in Barron’s most recent Profiles of American Colleges. Read More
The history of Protestant Christianity in Nashville and the workings of Tennessee’s state government are just a few of the diverse topics being discussed during the fall term of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt, Oct. 7 - Nov. 15. Read More
Robert L. Early has been named executive associate vice chancellor for the Department of Development and Alumni Relations at Vanderbilt University. Read More
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 More
Grins (pronounced “greens”) is Yiddish for vegetables and the name of Nashville’s 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 More
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 More
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 More
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 More
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 More
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 More
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 More
Their arrival on campus will be followed by a week’s 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 More
Peter T. Cummings has joined the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt as the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering. Read More
The chiefs of Tennessee’s 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 More
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 More
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 More
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 More