Releases
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Vanderbilt economist James Foster to be honored in Mexico
Anti-poverty expert to get honorary degree on February 23 Read MoreFeb 15, 2007
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Vanderbilt joins United Way Million Dollar Circle
Vanderbilt University was welcomed Thursday into the Million Dollar Circle of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, in recognition of generosity during the 2006 United Way campaign. Read MoreFeb 15, 2007
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Vanderbilt engineer wins NSF award for innovative Internet system
Professor Yi Cui has gotten recognition - and funding - for his novel idea that could give YouTube a run for its money. Read MoreFeb 15, 2007
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Vanderbilt‘s David Williams II named fellow of Tennessee Bar Foundation
David Williams II of Vanderbilt University has been elected a fellow by the Tennessee Bar Foundation. Read MoreFeb 15, 2007
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“Breaking the Color Barrier” Vanderbilt videoconference features Vice Mayor Gentry; Students to learn about life in one-time segregated Nashville
Nashville Vice Mayor Howard Gentry Jr. will share stories with middle and high school students across the nation about growing up in a segregated Nashville when he is a presenter for the Vanderbilt Virtual School on Feb. 15. "Breaking the Color Barrier" will be a step back in time to a very different life for African-Americans in the 1950s and even ‘60s, according to Patsy Partin, director of the Virtual School. Read MoreFeb 14, 2007
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New CD features Ugandan music used to combat HIV/AIDS; Singing for Life compiled by Vanderbilt medical ethnomusicologist Greg Barz
A new album of uplifting music from Uganda compiled by a Vanderbilt University ethnomusicologist is being released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of the effort to combat HIV/AIDS. Read MoreFeb 14, 2007
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TIPSHEET: EDUCATION EXPERTS AVAILABLE TO DISCUSS REAUTHORIZATION OF NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
Vanderbilt University Peabody College of education and human development experts are available to discuss various aspects of No Child Left Behind as Congress considers its reauthorization in 2007. Read MoreFeb 13, 2007
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Vanderbilt alumni form health care association
A group of graduates from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, who now work in the health care industry, has created an association to advance Owen‘s successful health care MBA program. Read MoreFeb 13, 2007
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State Trauma Hospitals Announce Education Campaign
Operating without direct funding, Tennessee‘s trauma center network is at a critical crossroads, said health professionals today, who launched a statewide education campaign aimed at raising the profile and sounding the alarm bells regarding the system. Read MoreFeb 12, 2007
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Tennessee schools, programs win grants to help close achievement gap
Four Tennessee schools and one community outreach program have each won a $10,000 grant from the Vanderbilt Center for Child and Family Policy to help close the achievement gap between white and black and Latino students. Read MoreFeb 9, 2007
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Community college presidents convene at Vanderbilt to discuss service learning
Community college presidents from across Tennessee will convene at Vanderbilt University Feb. 13 to discuss service learning. The event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. at the First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave. South. It is closed to the public. Media are welcome to attend. Read MoreFeb 9, 2007
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“Sopranos” star‘s Feb. 15 lecture at Vanderbilt University CANCELLED; Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler was to talk about battle with eating disorder
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos, has cancelled her speaking engagement at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 15. Read MoreFeb 9, 2007
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Vanderbilt Pediatric Chair Leaving For Leadership Role at Cincinnati Children‘s Hospital
Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics and medical director of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt, is leaving to become chief medical officer and director of the Children‘s Research Foundation at Cincinnati Children‘s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. Read MoreFeb 8, 2007
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Psychologist, author and oft-quoted expert Oakley Ray dead at 76
Oakley Ray, who taught at Vanderbilt University for more than 30 years and wrote both an enduring textbook and self-help books for the general public, died Feb. 7. He was 76. Read MoreFeb 7, 2007
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“Off the Wall” lectures explore Mexico and Modern Printmaking exhibit at the Frist; Vanderbilt‘s Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies provides support
Starting Feb. 15 Vanderbilt professors will offer informed perspective on the acclaimed exhibition Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Read MoreFeb 5, 2007
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Two Vanderbilt sophomores start company, nonprofit to help children in Uganda
Vanderbilt sophomores Henry Manice and Wil Keenan‘s two-month trip to Uganda last summer changed lives — theirs and the lives of many Ugandan artisans and children. Read MoreFeb 1, 2007
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Afeni Shakur, former Black Panther, mother of slain rapper, to headline Black History Month events at Vanderbilt University
Afeni Shakur, former member of the Black Panther Party, community outreach activist and mother of slain rap artist Tupac Shakur, is the keynote speaker during a series of events commemorating Black History Month at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreFeb 1, 2007
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New book details how Protestants gather and spend money; Author is Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler
Doing spiritually inspired work for the Lord usually begins with the tricky job of persuading someone to donate cold hard cash to the cause. Read MoreFeb 1, 2007
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Food security: helping make the world‘s food supply safe
Researchers will present papers on a series of topics including the impact of agro-terrorism; the role of international agreements in achieving food security; what tragedy teaches us about 100-year-old food laws; food-borne infections and the global food supply and regulating food aid in disasters. Read MoreFeb 1, 2007
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Playboy of the Western World premiers Feb. 16 at Vanderbilt
Playboy of the Western World inflamed audiences and caused weeklong rioting when it debuted in the National Irish Theater in Dublin in 1907. It debuts Feb. 16 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreJan 31, 2007