Releases

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ñ Bernice Johnson Reagon, a renowned scholar and artist in African-American cultural music and history, will deliver the keynote address for Vanderbilt University‘s 2005 Martin Luther King Commemorative Series Jan. 17-27. Read More

Families, health care professionals and other service providers in search of current research on developmental disabilities can now quickly and easily find relevant studies using Study Finder, a new online service from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

The Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt has been ranked in the top 10 children‘s hospitals in the nation, according to Child magazine. Read More

Recommendations for new principles and rules to promote the academic integrity of college athletic programs will be finalized by faculty senate representatives from 28 Division IA colleges and universities during a Jan. 6-7 national meeting hosted by Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt experts are available to comment on the aftermath of the magnitude 9.0 Indonesian earthquake on Dec. 26 that caused devastating tsunamis in South and Southeast Asia. Experts are available on topics including the threat of infectious diseases following the tsunamis, emergency medicine, international volunteer aid efforts and more. Read More

The fathers of three members of the Vanderbilt football squad have established a memorial fund to assist the family of Kwane Doster, the Commodore standout who was killed early Dec. 26 in Tampa, Fla. Read More

A new Web-based tool will be available January 1, 2005 to help clinicians determine the best medication for patients with schizophrenia. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has several health care experts available for stories related to the devastating tsunami in Asia. Please call the News and Public Affairs Office (615-322-4747) for availability of any one of these expert sources. Read More

Vanderbilt University student-athlete Kwane Doster, well known to Commodores fans as a game-breaking running back for the football squad, tragically died early Sunday from injuries sustained in a shooting in his hometown of Tampa, Fla. Read More

A landmark $10 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to Vanderbilt University Divinity School will be used to produce a generation of professors better prepared to teach students called to the ministry. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center has been awarded a one-year grant to create a plan for a statewide network of assistance centers for low-income and geographically underserved families of individuals with developmental disabilities. The grant is a Family Support 360 Planning Grant from the federal Administration on Developmental Disabilities. Read More

The Vanderbilt School of Nursing, in conjunction with the Nashville-Davidson County Health Department, The Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, and the Vanderbilt Department of Emergency Medicine, is building a local Medical Reserve Corps of trained health care professionals who could respond to a mass casualty or other emergency in our community. Read More

Jim Squires, a distinguished journalist, author, championship horse breeder and graduate of Peabody College, has donated his papers to Vanderbilt University Library's special collections department. Read More

In a process comparable to that of an artist who turns a two-dimensional canvas into a three-dimensional work of art, astronomers use the two- dimensional images that they capture in their high-powered telescopes to reconstruct the three-dimensional structures of celestial objects. Read More

Peter Guralnick, a novelist and biographer of Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke, will teach creative non-fiction at Vanderbilt University as a visiting professor during the spring semester of 2005. Read More

Wendell G. Holladay, who, as physics chairman, college dean and provost, was a key figure in the establishment of Vanderbilt University as a national research-oriented university, died Dec. 9 from complications following a heart attack. Read More

Kenneth C. Catania, assistant professor of biological sciences, has won the 2005 C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy from the American Association of Anatomists. Read More

On Wednesday, December 8, from 3 p.m. until 4 p.m. (CST) Vanderbilt University Medical Center is hosting a live web cast of a robotic prostate surgery. Read More

Mark Wait, dean of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, was nominated for two Grammy Awards on Tuesday for his work on an album of Elliott Carter music recorded at Blair's Ingram Hall. Read More

Nashville Hispanic families affected by disabilities will now have better access to information and services, thanks to a grant to the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities. Read More