Releases

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

John E. Chapman, M.D., former dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, was posthumously awarded the 2004 Distinguished Service Award by the American Medical Association. Read More

A new program at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will see to it that undergraduates who may be lacking a business degree aren't also lacking the business skills they need to succeed early in their careers. Read More

Last year ushered in a swirl of notoriety regarding influenza vaccine. The 2003-2004 flu season arrived early and hit hard. For many individuals, thanks in part to tremendous media hype and a delay in the availability of vaccine supplies, flu shots were a highly-sought after commodity. Read More

Just before the traditional peak of the holiday shopping season, U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) has released its 19th annual toy safety report. On Nov. 23, several toys were demonstrated for their potential hazards at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Veronica Gunn, M.D., assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital talked about the types of injuries that are commonly seen each year involving toys. Read More

Last year ushered in a swirl of notoriety regarding influenza vaccine. The 2003-2004 flu season arrived early and hit hard. For many individuals, thanks in part to tremendous media hype and a delay in the availability of vaccine supplies, flu shots were a highly-sought after commodity. Read More

Children between the ages of 7 and 12 who have a sibling with special needs are invited to attend a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Sibshop Saturday, Dec. 4, from 10 a.m. to 2. p.m. Read More

Nashville will get a new concert series with the launch of Bluebird on the Mountain, an expansion of successful collaborations between Vanderbilt University's Dyer Observatory and the Bluebird CafÈ. Read More

Several Vanderbilt employees were recognized by the Mayor's Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities at the committee's 23rd Annual Recognition Reception held at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development Nov. 15. The committee presented its annual awards in 12 categories to people, organizations or businesses that have enhanced the lives of those in the disability community. Read More

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center director Pat Levitt has been awarded the 2004 Friend of Children award by the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The award recognizes Levitt's contributions at the local, state and national level to the healthy development of children. Read More

If you run into Ed Saff at a cocktail party and ask him what he does for a living, the mathematician is likely to reply that he is working on a "method for creating the perfect poppy-seed bagel." Then he'll pause and add, "Maybe that's not the most accurate description, but it's the most digestible." Read More

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