Releases

Every year, around the Fourth of July, experts at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt see fireworks-related injuries -- everything from burns and abrasions to serious eye damage, and even blindness. This year, doctors say, they hope parents will opt for a professional fireworks show rather than something in the back yard, put on by amateurs. National statistics show 10 percent of firework injuries are sustained by toddlers and injuries are most likely when children have fireworks without adequate supervision. Read More

Sten H. Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., the director of The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and a Pediatric Infectious Disease research epidemiologist at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt has been selected as the primary investigator to lead the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) for the newly restructured HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has announced four new faculty members to join the full-time teaching staff this fall. Read More

The Tennessee High School Press Association is transferring its archives of awards, records and student achievement to Vanderbilt University after spending the last 60 years under the authority of the University of Tennessee's College of Communication. Read More

After treating five children for near-drowning in the last two weeks, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital experts are asking parents to review safety tips. Tom Abramo, M.D., director of the Emergency Department at Vanderbilt Children's, says most of the incidents have involved children under the age of 5. Read More

For many Vanderbilt students and faculty, learning, teaching and service don't end when classes conclude in May, but continue throughout the summer, often in far-flung locations. Two Vanderbilt groups are blogging about their adventures and work this summer in China and in Uganda. Read More

Treasured television news specials broadcast from 1968 to 2003 will become more accessible to the public, thanks to the Vanderbilt Television News Archive receiving new funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read More

The next time you hear a political candidate blast his or her opponent in a negative political advertisement, your natural inclination may be to grab the remote and change the channel. Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer contends, however, that you may want to leave the remote alone. Read More

A Vanderbilt University physics professor is one of 13 young scientists named a 2006 Cottrell Scholar, a $100,000 fellowship designed to encourage early-career science researchers who show promise. Read More

Singer-songwriters Tony Mullins, Kent Blazy and Monty Holmes will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 8, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series. Read More

Children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, researchers have found, offering new insight into how to help these children in a more holistic way. Read More

The state of Tennessee has recognized Vanderbilt University for its leadership and innovation in protecting the environment with the 2006 Governor's Environmental Stewardship Award in Pollution Prevention. Read More

President George W. Bush announced June 15 that he will nominate Camilla P. Benbow to the National Science Board, an independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation. Benbow is Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. Read More

President George W. Bush recently announced his intention to nominate Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Dean Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., as a member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Police Department has announced the following promotions and staff changes effective July 1. Read More

Internationally renowned derivative securities expert Robert E. Whaley has been named the Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Whaley, who began his academic career at the Owen School 28 years ago, most recently was the T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he had been on faculty since 1986. Read More

The district attorney prosecuting the rape case against three of Duke University's lacrosse players received significant support from both black and white voters in the recent Durham primary, according to a voting analysis by Vanderbilt University political scientist Christian Grose. Read More

With a thousand distractions vying for your attention, how do you stay focused? Just who, or rather what, is in charge of your brain? New research into how the brain manages information has found that an area previously thought to be just an information collector in fact plays the role of an executiveóhelping to filter out extraneous information to help you stay focused. The findings offer potential insights into helping people with attention disorders. Read More

The Food and Drug Administration is examining study data from Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, to determine if new warnings should be placed on common blood pressure medications indicating an increased risk of birth defects for babies whose mothers take these medications during the first trimester of pregnancy. Read More

When 24-year-old Charles Dougherty checks into Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center tomorrow, he'll be preparing for a treatment that has never been performed before in an adult patient in Nashville, and will be only the second case in Tennessee history. Read More