Releases

Vanderbilt fans will have five opportunities this month to meet Football Coach Bobby Johnson and several of the team's preseason All-SEC candidates while having a chance to win signed jerseys and other memorabilia as part of Commodores in the Community, an awareness program announced by the department today. Read More

The Vanderbilt Commodores received an at-large bid to the NCAA Baseball Tournament today for the first time since 1980. This is the fourth appearance in the NCAA Tournament for the Commodores. Vanderbilt is coming off a runnerup finish in the Southeastern Conference Tournament with a 3-2 loss to South Carolina. Read More

The 2004 KIDS COUNT Data Book, which evaluates state-by-state progress in child well-being, will be released nationally on Thursday, and Tennessee's rankings will be discussed during a news conference that will feature members of the Tennessee Youth Advisory Council. Read More

Steven J. Tepper will join the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University this fall as associate director, announced Bill Ivey, director of the center. Read More

The family of Tabitha Tuders will dedicate scholarships in Tabitha's name to the Kennedy Center Reading Clinic Tuesday, June 1, at 3 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Family Outreach Center. Tabitha, 13, was abducted in April 2003 outside her Nashville home. Friends of the Tuders family established the scholarship fund in March 2004 in honor of Tabitha and her love of reading. Read More

Kent D. Syverud, dean and Garner Anthony Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, joined legal educators representing more than 45 countries and all of the world's legal systems today to hammer out a "global curriculum" for law schools. Read More

The White House Press Office is approving and providing all press credentials for President George Bush's visit to Vanderbilt University Medical Center this Thursday afternoon. Read More

In the morning hours of June 8, visitors to Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory will witness an astronomical event that no living person has ever seen. Venus-the Earth's sister planet-will move directly between the Earth and the sun. The public is invited to view this rare event during a live broadcast at the observatory. Read More

William Christie, who has served as the dean of Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management since 2000, will step down from his position on June 1, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nicholas Zeppos announced. Following a planned research leave, Christie will return to the faculty as the Frances Hampton Currey Chair in Finance. Read More

Ever think you could get a nasty sunburn ó severe enough to peel ó by attending an indoor event? Seems improbable, but it can happen. And it has ó three times recently in Middle Tennessee. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development presented its Distinguished Alumnus Award to University of Texas at Austin professor O.L. Davis Jr. during commencement, Friday, May 14. Read More

SEC Commissioner Paul S. Atkins will speak at the Securities Law Update 2004 conference at Vanderbilt University Law School on Thursday, May 20. Read More

Imagine College staff are pledging scholarships to members of Pearl-Cohn Comprehensive Business Magnet High School's class of 2007-the last class to receive college financial aid through the program. Read More

A series of appointments to be effective June 1 will complete the restructuring of intercollegiate athletics that began last year at Vanderbilt, University officials announced today. The new appointments are the result of a thorough review that commenced in September 2003, when Vanderbilt announced a plan to ensure the integration of athletics into student and University life. Read More

The top students in each of Vanderbilt's nine undergraduate and professional schools were recognized with Founder's Medals during commencement exercises May 14. Read More

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice spoke to graduating seniors, rock band the B-52's performed, parents attended lectures and Chancellor Gordon Gee will deliver the commencement address on Friday as part of Vanderbilt University's expanded celebration of graduation activities May 12-14. Read More

Gov. Phil Bredesen has appointed Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development and professor of pharmacology, to the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities. Read More

A cap designed to cool the brains of babies born with oxygen deprivation during birth may prevent brain damage. Vanderbilt Children's Hospital researchers participated in the study of the device, "CoolCap," to cool the brains of full-term babies who were oxygen-deprived and had signs of brain damage within hours of birth. Read More

The recent discoveries of Vanderbilt archeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli and his colleagues who are unlocking the long-held secrets of the origins of the Maya will receive a national television audience this week with the broadcast of a National Geographic special. Read More

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will speak at Vanderbilt University's inaugural Senior Class Day on Thursday, May 13, at 10 a.m. on Alumni Lawn. Senior Class Day is an addition to Vanderbilt's graduation celebrations and is held the day before the University's Commencement exercises. Rice's speech will be webcast live. A link to the webcast will be on the Vanderbilt University home page at www.vanderbilt.edu. In case of severe weather, the event will be held in Memorial Gym on 25th Avenue South. Read More