Releases

The fourth Bluebird on the Mountain concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, and promises to be on of the highlights of this year's series. Singer-songwriters Don Schlitz, Thom Schuyler and Fred Knobloch, whose work dominated the country charts in the 1980s and '90s, will perform at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Harmonica player Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson will also perform at the concert. Read More

Nearly 50 years ago, Karsten Solheim, working from his garage, developed the first PING 1-A Putter. PING's innovative products and services, among them custom fitting and perimeter weighting, have since changed the industry. Read More

As it seems, Nashville's shining star in big-time sports may have been tarnished by recent events. Our proud Predators have been left in limbo, abandoned by lame-duck ownership. The Sounds ballpark deal imploded from internal squabbling between owner and developer. Fortunately, everything is not as it seems. Music City is still a big-time player in the pro sports game. Read More

One of the nation's most respected political scientists and a prominent young political leader will team up at Vanderbilt University to teach a unique course in which students create strategies on how best to win the 2008 Democratic and Republican presidential nominations. Distinguished Professor of Political Science John Geer and former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. will co-teach "Capturing the 2008 Presidential Nominations." Read More

Nashville executive and Vanderbilt Board of Trust Vice Chairman Dennis C. Bottorff will chair the search committee charged with identifying the next Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, Board of Trust Chairman Martha R. Ingram announced on Thursday. Read More

At 11 a.m. this morning the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt will formally announce the appointment of Kevin Churchwell, M.D., as the hospital's new CEO.Churchwell, a Nashville native, Vanderbilt-educated physician and nationally recognized pediatrician, has been selected as chief executive officer and executive director of Children's Hospital, effective immediately. Read More

William G. (Bill) Christie, the Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Finance and professor of law at Vanderbilt University is now the new associate dean for faculty development at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Public opinion polls in the Nashville mayoral contest (and other multi-candidate races) should be analyzed with care because of the high potential for error, according to Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Political Science John Geer. Read More

The United States premiere of Australia's BalletLab and a performance by the Kronos Quartet highlight the 33rd season of Great Performances at Vanderbilt, Nashville's longest running and only international performing series. The season will also bring a residency at Vanderbilt by the JosÈ LimÛn Dance Company. Read More

Gordon Gee will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt's chancellor to return to Ohio State University as its president, a position he previously held from 1990 to 1997. His resignation is effective Aug. 1. Vanderbilt Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nicholas S. Zeppos has been named interim chancellor effective Aug. 1, Board of Trust Chairman Martha R. Ingram announced on July 12. Read More

Four young men stand on the edge of a stage, eyes closed and backs facing the room. More young men stand below, some poised for action and others distracted with horseplay. Read More

Gordon Gee will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt University's chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990 to 1997. His resignation is effective Aug. 1. Read More

In a court of law, a person is innocent until proven guilty. But when a person's photograph and arrest information are posted on television newscasts, newspapers, radio reports and Web sites, he or she is essentially being painted as a criminal before being tried by a judge or jury. That's the opinion of University Professor of Constitutional Law & Health Law & Policy James Blumstein. Blumstein is going to U.S. District Court on July 11 to convince a judge to enforce a 33-year-old court order that bans Nashville Metro Police from giving out raw arrest information. Read More

The recent school desegregation decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court drive home three important lessons. Read More

Vanderbilt University's "Meet the Candidates" picnic on July 19 is expected to be one of the largest and most colorful political gatherings prior to the Metropolitan Nashville General Election. Live streaming video of the picnic will be available on VUCast, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news, beginning at 11:30 a.m. that day. Archived video will be available after the event Read More

An Op-ed by Claire Smrekar, associate professor of education and public policy, on the recent U. S. Supreme Court ruling regarding race-based assignment plans for the school districts of Louisville, Ky. and Seattle, Wash. Read More

On July 2, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt will begin operating the state's first pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center at a children's hospital. Read More

Anthropologists working on the slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have discovered the earliest-known evidence of peanut, cotton and squash farming dating back 5,000 to 9,000 years. Their findings provide long-sought-after evidence that some of the early development of agriculture in the New World took place at farming settlements in the Andes. Read More

After the Nashville Predators ended their best regular NHL season on the ice with 110 points, absentee owner Craig Liepold (Racine, Wis.) soon sold the proud Preds to Canadian Jim Balsillie (BlackBerry techno-preneur from Hamilton, Ontario) for a cool $220 million. Read More

The director of investments at Emory University was named chief investment officer at Vanderbilt University, responsible for managing its $3.4 billion endowment. Read More