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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

T. John Koo, assistant professor of computer engineering, has been recognized with a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support his efforts to pioneer a new science that will help engineers do a better job of designing the wide array of "smart devices" which contain microchips and are spreading rapidly throughout modern society. Read More

Nashville kids ages 4 to 18 are invited to enter a new local art contest to help decorate the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt University. Read More

It‘s nature‘s fastest quick-change artist: In less than the time it takes a beam of light to travel a tenth of a millimeter, vanadium dioxide can switch from a transparent to a reflective, mirror-like state. Read More

Peter Guralnick, biographer of Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke and a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, will read from his work this month at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt University will look within the borders of its own campus for potential bone marrow donors during a registry drive on Thursday, April 7. Read More

A record high 11,628 students sought admission to Vanderbilt University‘s fall 2005 freshman class, while fewer than 4,000 of them actually received letters of acceptance, making admissions for the Class of 2009 the most selective in the university‘s history. Read More

Busy executives often put off professional development because schedules are already too tight, or they can‘t afford to leave their jobs to go back to school full time. Read More

Vanderbilt‘s new Student Life Center, which celebrated its grand opening March 30, features a piece of artwork by Los Angeles-based sculptor Bruce Gray. Read More

Nashville (Tenn.) - Larry M. Goldberg, vice president for hospitaloperations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, has been namedexecutive director and CEO of Vanderbilt University Hospital. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School maintained its No. 17 ranking in the nation for the fifth consecutive year, while Peabody College saw seven of its programs ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report in its annual ranking of the leading graduate and professional schools. Peabody‘s Special Education program was ranked first in the nation for the third straight year. Read More