Releases

During four evenings in March Alice Hunt will lead the next Relevant Religion community education class in an exploration of the Dead Sea Scrolls and what they reveal about scripture. Read More

Funding for the center at Fall-Hamilton Elementary School and at Stratton Elementary School will be gone by the end of this school year. Read More

Howell E. Adams, Jr., retired owner and chief executive officer of The Georgia Trane Companies, has been selected to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Read More

Sirens will wail at noon on Saturday, March 1, as Vanderbilt conducts its twice-yearly test of the system designed to warn the campus of imminent danger from tornadoes or violent storms. Read More

The Community Services Directory, the only comprehensive listing of nonprofits and social services throughout Middle Tennessee, is now accessible through a new Web site created by the Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. Read More

The “Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box” series resumes March 5 with a conversation about behavioral genetics led by Vanderbilt Professor of Philosophy David Wood and Ellen Wright Clayton, the Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy at Vanderbilt. Read More

Two Vanderbilt University seniors have been awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships to continue their studies at the University of Cambridge in England. Read More

The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University has announced several new staff members in its information services department and at the school’s Walker Management Library. Read More

Simon Collier, professor of history, died Feb. 20 at Alive Hospice in Nashville after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 64. Read More

The largest AIDS awareness program targeting African Americans will kick off Sunday, March 2. The weeklong program will include special workshops, church services and the opportunity to meet and hear about the successes and struggles of individuals who are living with HIV/AIDS. Read More

Former NASA astronaut Rick Chappell, who directs Vanderbilt University’s Office of Science and Research Communications, will discuss the impact of the Columbia shuttle disaster on the future of America’s space program during a series of videoconferences on Feb. 21 with K-12 students in Texas and Tennessee. Read More

Brain Awareness Month begins March 1 featuring an art exhibition of Herb Alpert's works and a lecture on "Music and the Brain" by Dr. Robert Zatorre. Read More

Congressional hearings on the space shuttle disaster begin Wednesday, Feb. 12. Vanderbilt University professors can add context to your stories.---Scientific Experiments in Space---Robots in Space---Accident Analysis Read More

"Vanderbilt@TPAC@Vanderbilt@TPAC" unites the intellectual resources of Nashville's premier educational institution with the cultural flair of the city's leading performing arts organization. "InsideOut of the (Lunch) Box" to be the first program, Feb. 27 Read More

Six teams of MBA students from top business schools competed last weekend in the fourth annual Vanderbilt MBA eStrategy Contest at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Students from the Harvard Business School took home the $25,000 prize from the contest, the largest case competition of its kind. Read More

Sima Samar, chair of Afghanistan’s first Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC), will give a talk on the status of Afghan women after Taliban rule at Vanderbilt University Monday, Feb. 24. Read More

Current foreign policy dilemmas, the future role of the United Nations in international affairs and a woman’s view of American history are among the wide-ranging topics offered for the spring term of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt March 3 through April 21. Read More

Vanderbilt and four other leading private universities have filed an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School in their efforts to defend the principles of affirmative action in college admissions. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering students will celebrate the lighter side of engineering during National Engineers Week, Feb. 17-22. Read More

Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., Dean of the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, was recently appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Provisional Committee on Institutional and Policy Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the Healthcare Workforce. Read More