Releases

Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has awarded one of its competitive Fast Track grants to Vanderbilt neuroscientist Richard Nass, Ph.D., to fund his search for drugs that will prevent dopamine nerve cell death. Read More

Children can now use their bedside computers to join a new online community that fosters an environment where children can speak openly and honestly with peers about their illnesses and to provide encouragement to each other. Read More

Forrest E. Harris, Sr., director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on African American Church Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School will present "Leadership and Struggle in the Black Churches: Then and Now." Read More

Historian Bryan Mark Rigg will discuss his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" at the Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life at Vanderbilt on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. Read More

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering L. Roy Xu has won a Young Investigator Program award from the U.S. Office of Naval Research for his research on hybrid interface mechanics and nano-composite materials. Read More

George Fredrickson, one of the leading American scholars on race, will compare and contrast anti-Semitism with racism against people of African descent during a Feb. 27 lecture at Vanderbilt University. Fredrickson will deliver the annual Byrne lecture at 8 p.m. in the Moore Room (218) of Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Noted scholar and orator Cornel West will deliver a talk titled “Race and Democracy” at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 13. Read More

Vanderbilt School of Nursing's Faculty Practice Network (VNFPN) is opening the doors on a new nurse-managed, community-based clinic this week. Read More

Rita D. Hayes, deputy director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, will discuss the role of that international organization on current intellectual property issues at 12:10 p.m. Feb. 12 in Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Noted Afro-Brazilian writer Esmeralda Ribeiro will join in a panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at Vanderbilt’s Furman Hall on the role of black women in Afro-Brazilian literature and sexism within the black movement in Brazil. The discussion is free and open to the public Read More

Arnold Sameroff, internationally known for his contributions to understanding the factors that put children at risk or protect them as they develop socially, emotionally and academically, will speak at a free public lecture Thursday, Feb. 13, at Vanderbilt University’s John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

Political pundits James Carville and Mary Matalin and national security expert Gen. Barry McCaffrey will be the featured speakers for the 2003 IMPACT Symposium at Vanderbilt University. Read More

When a toddler sees herself on a home video, she may say “baby” or “girl” or think it is her sister on television. She knows she is here, in the real world – who is the child on the television? Read More

Howard Harrod, who grew up in Oklahoma among the Native Americans of the Northern Plains and spent his career studying and writing about their practices and beliefs, died Feb. 3 at his home after an extended illness. He was 70 years old. Read More

Vanderbilt professors offer comments on the space shuttle disaster--- Scientific experiments in space --- Robots in space--- Facing grief following national tragedies --- National policy implications Read More

Online consumers who are asked to enter a promotion discount code but do not have one are far less likely to complete their purchase than those who had a code or were not prompted for one, according to a new study by the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Boeing Company has donated a patent to Vanderbilt University covering a particle-separation technology originally developed for use in outer space that now could play an important role in the approaching nanotechnology revolution. Read More

"Two Gentlemen of Verona” a musical adaptation opens in Neely Auditorium on Feb. 14, with additional performances on Feb. 15, 20, 21, 22 at 8 p.m. and one matinee Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. This happy coming-of-age story celebrates spring and its promise of love with a satirical Shakespearean undercurrent of government’s sometimes less than pure motives for war. Read More

Roger W. Ferguson Jr., vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will speak on “September 11, the Federal Reserve and the Financial System” as part of the Owen Distinguished Speaker Series on Feb. 5. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty representing the Law School, the Owen Graduate School of Management and the Divinity School will address the subject of corporate responsibility in a panel discussion on Feb. 3. Read More