Political candidates will not be the only ones logging miles on Tennessee’s 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 More
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 More
Vanderbilt University will host two educational booths with hands-on science and technology experiments for Metro Schools’ students during the Mayor’s First Day Festival Aug. 11 at the Gaylord Entertainment Center. Staff members from Vanderbilt’s 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 More
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 More
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 More
Vanderbilt’s two child care centers have received three stars, the highest rank, in the first year of Tennessee’s new star-quality program. Read More
Three faculty of Vanderbilt University’s Department of Political Science today discussed the 2002 Tennessee primaries and made projections for the November general election. Read More
Three Vanderbilt faculty members will be available to the media at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at Kirkland Hall for political analysis and questions about the 2002 Tennessee primaries. Commenting on the outcomes of the primaries for U.S. Senate, Congress and governor in Tennessee will be professors Bruce Oppenheimer, Geoff Layman and Rosalyn Cooperman. Read More
Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams) Nashville, an education partnership whose members include Vanderbilt University and Metro Public Schools, has a new name, “Imagine College,” it was announced today. The program’s mission is to open the door to higher education for inner city students by supporting student learning, teacher professional development, and family and community engagement in schools. Read More
John Seigenthaler, nationally acclaimed newspaper editor and First Amendment advocate, is getting an unexpected present for his 75th birthday Saturday: Vanderbilt University officials announced July 26 that one of the university’s newest buildings is being named after Seigenthaler. Read More
Vanderbilt University and the Freedom Forum will make a major announcement at 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 26 to mark the 75th birthday Saturday of First Amendment Center founder and The Tennessean chairman emeritus John Seigenthaler. Read More
Michael Durant, retired U.S. Army chief warrant officer and Blackhawk helicopter pilot whose capture by Somali fighters was depicted in the film “Blackhawk Down,” will take questions from the media 3 p.m. Thursday, July 25, in Room 231 of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More
More than 1,000 people gathered on the lawn at Vanderbilt Wednesday for some old-fashioned politicking complete with candidate handshakes, hot dogs and a Dixie Land jazz band. Read More
What is the difference between a violin and a fiddle? Find out as Crystal Plohman, protégé of Mark O’Connor and director of the fiddle program at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, leads a team featuring Vassar Clements and other acclaimed fiddle masters in a series of workshops and concerts at the Summer Fiddle Camp at Vanderbilt July 28-August 3. Read More
The following Vanderbilt University professors are available for comment and analysis concerning the August 1 Tennessee primary: Read More
.—“Alternate Visions,” an exhibit by the artists of Minds Wide Open, a program of The Arc of the Bluegrass, Inc., is on display in the foyer of the John F. Kennedy Center/MRL Building on Vanderbilt’s Peabody College campus through Sept. 30. Read More
Metropolitan Nashville candidates for vice mayor, sheriff and school board (Hillsboro Cluster) will take part in a July 22 public forum for residents of the 18th Council District. Read More
The Alumni Association of Vanderbilt University has named as its 2002 Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Thomas F. Frist Jr., a 1961 graduate of the College of Arts and Science who helped found what became the world’s largest hospital management corporation. The award will be presented Oct. 24 during the University’s reunion weekend. Read More
Vanderbilt Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Mark D. Abkowitz has been appointed by President Bush to a four-year term on the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to provide advice on transportation issues. Read More
The increasingly negative tone of the U.S. Senate race in Tennessee underscores the importance of the state as a battleground between Republicans and Democrats to control the Senate, according to John Geer, a Vanderbilt University expert on attack politics. The political scientist points to the recent attack ads by GOP Senate primary foes Lamar Alexander and Ed Bryant as a reflection of an increasingly bitter campaign, a trend that is not likely to end soon. Read More