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Madison Smartt Bell, a Middle Tennessee native who recently published the last of a trilogy of novels about the Haitian revolution, will read at Vanderbilt University from his book The Stone That the Builder Refused. Read More

Catherine Brescia Reynolds, a prominent philanthropist and pioneer in the development of privately funded student loan programs, is the newest member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust. Read More

Vanderbilt chemist Chuck Lukehart has received a $50,000 grant from Honda Corporation to develop new breakthroughs in fuel cell technology. Lukehart was one of five researchers selected this year by Honda to receive its annual Honda Initiation Grant. Lukehart will accept the grant at the 2004 Honda Initiation Grant Symposium Nov. 19 in Hollywood, Calif. Read More

The number of registered nurses entering the job market appears to be on a steady incline, with a total employment growth of over 200,000 R.N.'s since 2001, the largest increase since the early 1980's, but experts at the School of Nursing say it's still not enough to prevent a long-term crisis that threatens to cripple the entire health care system. Read More

Four-and-a-half-month-old Abigail Patrick received a new heart at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt early this morning. Read More

The modern world is filled with the uncoordinated beeping and buzzing of countless electronic devices, so it was only a matter of time before someone designed an electronic network with the ability to synchronize dozens of tiny buzzers in much the same way that frogs and cicadas coordinate their nighttime choruses. Kenneth D. Frampton, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, dreamed up the project. Read More

Vanderbilt's Sleep Disorders Center has garnered national accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Read More

Conventional wisdom has held that companies in which governments reqlinquished some level of control through privatization would out-perform companies in which they retained a controlling interest or had substantial veto powers. However, a new study from the Owen Graduate School of Management finds that publicly traded companies remaining under government control actually do better in terms of performance and market value than companies that are more fully or completely privatized. Read More

A new chair at Vanderbilt University Law School, the second at the school to honor alumnus Milton Underwood, has been awarded to one of the nation's leading bankruptcy scholars. The Milton Underwood Chair in Law will be awarded formally to Robert Rasmussen in a ceremony on Feb. 23, 2005. Rasmussen, former associate dean for academic affairs, also holds the FedEx Research Professorship and directs the law and economics program. Read More

An unidentified minimal hearing loss is a significant factor in the psychosocial and educational progress of young children, according to multiple research studies conducted over the past 20 years at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Researchers will present their findings during the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) annual convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, November 18-20. Read More

In recognition of his efforts "to protect and conserve" its cultural resources, Maya archaeologist Arthur Demarest has received one of the Republic of Guatemala's highest awards, the National Order of Cultural Patrimony. Read More

Russian and American scientists hope to help each other avert nuclear disasters by coming together at Vanderbilt Nov. 14-17 to share methods, techniques and scientific research related to secure management of nuclear materials, including those at nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons' sites and nuclear waste facilities. Read More

The economics department at Vanderbilt University marks the establishment of its newest chair, the Joe L. Roby Chair of Economics, with a lecture on Nov. 17 by the chair's first holder, Eric Bond, professor of economics and a renowned international economist. Read More

Four-month-old identical twins Abigail and Shea Patrick were miracle babies. Their parents tried to have children for years. Read More

Roy Neel, who most recently served as campaign manager for Gov. Howard Dean's presidential bid and is an adjunct professor of political science at Vanderbilt, and John Geer, a Vanderbilt professor of political science with expertise in presidential campaigns, will explore "After the Vote: Interpreting Nov. 2 and Prospects for the Next Administration" tonight at Vanderbilt. Read More

U.S. News & World Report's newly named education editor will discuss his publication's approach to covering education, as well as how it arrives at its renowned "Best College" and "Best Graduate School" rankings, in an upcoming Vanderbilt address. Read More

Nashville Christian School students will have a chance to explore the field of astronomy Tuesday, Nov. 9, thanks to a visit from the Fisk-Vanderbilt NASA Roadshow. Astronomers from Vanderbilt and Fisk universities will bring a portable, inflatable planetarium to the school to help teach students about the stars with the goal of interesting them in a career in science. Read More

He argued against the conventional wisdom that religion and science are at odds, wrote a landmark legal document and practiced medicine in a way that combined scientific and humanistic values ñ a Renaissance man centuries before the Renaissance. The enduring influence of Maimonides will be examined during a conference on Sunday, Nov. 14, and Monday, Nov. 15, held at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Former Vanderbilt All-American linebacker Jamie Duncan will return to campus this weekend to serve as grand marshal of the school's homecoming parade. Duncan, a seven-year veteran of the National Football League currently with the Atlanta Falcons, will participate in the campus parade Nov. 5, then attend the Vanderbilt-Florida game the afternoon of Nov. 6. Read More

What does the outcome of the 2004 presidential race ñ one that seemed to find the nation evenly yet definitively divided along regional and ideological lines ñ say about the overall narrative of the nation? Frank Rich, cultural critic and associate editor of The New York Times, will discuss "Culture Wars in an Election Year" on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at Vanderbilt. Read More