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The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine class of 1945 had no women; the class of 1959 had only one. Over the years, there was a steady increase in the number of women. By 1977, there were nine; by 1981, 20. Each year the gap has slowly closed in the numbers of women and men. Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy has increased its presence in the nation's capital with the addition of Paula Cleggett as associate director for policy. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing has signed an agreement with Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia (MTSA) to offer graduates of Vanderbilt's Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) Program an early interview and potential acceptance in MTSA's highly competitive Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) program. Read More

In what could be called Vanderbilt's version of American Idol ñ only without the ill-tempered judge and a recording contract prize ñ University and Medical Center employees will audition Thursday, August 14, for the chance to sing the national anthem at the Vanderbilt-UT Chattanooga football game Saturday, Sept. 6. Dwayne Sagen, Vanderbilt's director of bands and an assistant dean at the Blair School of Music, will serve as one of the four judges for the audition, along with representatives from Vanderbilt Athletics, Medical Center and University administration. Read More

Researchers have moved a step closer to finding a "molecular fingerprint" of an individual's cancer. Read More

In an effort to guard patient safety, VUMC is taking a leaf from American aviation, where it's been shown that human error and the harm it poses can be substantially reduced through training to improve communication among members of the flight crew. Read More

Nearly a dozen undergraduate students from around the Southeast have been spending the summer at Vanderbilt University getting a taste of real-life engineering research as part of a summer internship at the Institute for Software-Integrated Systems. Read More

In the near future, when Marine Corps pilots climb into the cockpit for a training flight or an actual combat mission, they will do so with confidence that the possibility of human error in every operational aspect of their mission from aircraft maintenance to flight scheduling has been minimized by the use of customized software developed by Vanderbilt University and the University of Southern California. Read More

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, the world's most comprehensive collection of television network news programs, marks its 35th anniversary next week by going digital. Read More

Lynn S. Fuchs and Douglas Fuchs, professors of special education and John F. Kennedy Center investigators at Vanderbilt University, will share the Nicholas Hobbs Chair in Special Education and Human Development, a newly endowed faculty chair in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education. Read More

A research study performed at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, proving the safety and effectiveness of using automated external defibrillators (AED's) in children, has helped change American Heart Association guidelines. The study will be published in the August 2003 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine. Read More

Ronald D. Ford has been elected president of the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Board of Directors for 2003-04. Read More

The just-published third edition of America's Top Doctors lists 46 VUMC physicians among its rankings, an increase over the 39 cited in the book's second edition, published last year. Read More

"The bigger an object, the easier it is to see. But it is actually harder for people to determine the motion of objects larger than a tennis ball held at arms length than it is to gauge the motion of smaller objects," says Duje Tadin, first author of the paper on the study appearing in the July 17 issue of the journal Nature. Tadin is a graduate student in psychology at Vanderbilt and his co-authors are postdoctoral fellow Lee A. Gilroy and professors Joseph S. Lappin and Randolph Blake. Read More

A Vanderbilt professor says that the Class Action Fairness Act currently pending in the U.S. Senate would go a long way toward curbing rampant systemic abuse by both plaintiffs' attorneys and defendants. Read More

Candidates for mayor, vice-mayor and Metro Council will take part in a community picnic on Vanderbilt University's Olin Lawn Wednesday, July 16, from noon to 1:30 p.m. This free event, sponsored by Vanderbilt's Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations office, provides an opportunity for the Vanderbilt community to meet many of the candidates while enjoying hot dogs, soft drinks and ice cream. Olin Lawn is located just off 25th Avenue South between Garland and Highland avenues. The rain location for the event is the nearby Branscomb South Dining Room at 25th Avenue South and Vanderbilt Place. Read More

More than 60 candidates for the August election in Davidson County will do some old-fashioned politicking at a July 16 community picnic on Vanderbilt University's Olin Lawn. Read More

Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak, professors of marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, have been recognized by ISI Essential Science Indicators for having the highest percent increase in total academic article citations for the most recent trackinig period in the entire field of economics and business. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers will travel to ancient churches in Cuba and Brazil to save rare documents about the history of Africans in the Americas. Read More

As questions continue to swirl around President Bush's national smallpox vaccination plan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a new smallpox bandage trial that will help answer questions about one of the major issues associated with receiving the vaccine. Read More