Releases

Reginald W. Coopwood, M.D. has been named the next CEO of the Metro Hospital Authority which inclues Nashville General Hospital at Meharry, Bordeaux Long Term Care and Knowles Assisted Living Facility and Adult Day Care. Read More

Democrats need to redefine themselves to win the White House in 2008. The Party‘s leadership change is an opportunity to develop a bold platform that restores the American Dream to working families left behind by the Bush Administration. Read More

Public reaction to news such as the recent studies showing America‘s elementary and secondary schools‘ students do not know math, science and other subjects as well as their counterparts in other nations is predictable. Read More

Vanderbilt University has been awarded the 2005 Tennessee Pollution Prevention Partnership Green Schools Award for recycling by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering seniors will display their innovations Tuesday, April 26, during the School of Engineering‘s Senior Design Day. Read More

Research reported April 20 at a meeting of the American Physical Society reveals that the early universe may have behaved like a liquid in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. Physicists from Vanderbilt University were part of a prestigious international team that made the surprising findings. Read More

Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee presented five faculty members with annual awards when Vanderbilt‘s Spring Faculty Assembly convened April 4. Read More

Richard Davidson, a psychologist who studies adults and young children who have or are at risk for emotional disorders, autism and other developmental disorders, will speak at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development on Thursday, April 21, at 4 p.m. Read More

Vanderbilt University professors Lynn Fuchs and Doug Fuchs are the recipients of the Special Education Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2005 Distinguished Research Award. Read More

Members of Expressions, the Vanderbilt Community Outreach Partnership Center‘s after-school dance program for local teens, will perform "FUSION" April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Tennessee State University‘s Recital Hall. Read More

There aren‘t many people who can pull a fighter jet weighing more than 14,000 pounds 47 feet in 60 seconds. There aren‘t many people who have a 3.1 grade point average with a major in chemical engineering. There aren‘t many men, much less women, who can claim to have accomplished both difficult feats. Vanderbilt University Junior Kara Mann has achieved both and is a strong woman in every sense of the word as she defies stereotypes on a daily basis. Read More

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is the featured speaker for the April 25 annual meeting for Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt. Blackburn, who represents Tennessee‘s 7th District and is a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, will discuss findings from her recent trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel. Read More

Disparities in health care based on race and culture will be discussed during a three-day conference at Vanderbilt University that will bring participants from the United States, Canada and Europe to campus. Read More

Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory will take on the festive air of Carnival time in the Caribbean on Sunday, April 24, when the Commodore Steel Drum Band performs as part of the Music on the Mountain concert series. Read More

Students from six area high schools and nine middle schools will demonstrate their enthusiasm and expertise with technology during an April 13 competition at Vanderbilt‘s Wyatt Center. Read More

Bi-weekly conversations this fall among 13 students at Vanderbilt University will be the modest beginnings of a movement designed to eventually transform the experience of every graduate student on campus. Read More

Vanderbilt University‘s School of Engineering will play an important role in a major new $19 million National Science Foundation (NSF) multi-institutional center to protect the nation‘s computer infrastructure from cyber attacks while improving its reliability. Read More

The Chancellor of Vanderbilt University will be appointed to the board of trustees of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, the White House announced. President Bush intends to appoint Gordon Gee to a six-year term on the 13-member board, which oversees programs to "encourage and support research, study and labor designated to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind." Read More

Research at Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania challenges the American Psychiatric Association‘s position that antidepressant medications are the only effective treatment for moderately to severely depressed patients. Read More

Jack Matlock, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, will reflect on changes in U.S. foreign diplomacy from the Cold War to the War on Terror during an upcoming lecture at Vanderbilt. Read More