Releases

Vanderbilt’s impact on the local economy totaled at least $3.4 billion last year, according to a recently completed analysis. The University's economic impact on the Middle Tennessee region in fiscal year 2002 is up from $3 billion in FY 2001 – a 13 percent increase. Read More

President Bush’s Jan. 28 State of the Union address is his most important opportunity to date to make the case for going to war with Iraq, according to Thomas Schwartz, a Vanderbilt University expert on U.S. foreign policy and alliance politics. Read More

Partners of the Heart, a documentary chronicling the 34-year relationship between a white physician and a black lab technician that resulted in a major breakthrough in pediatric cardiac surgery, will be shown Monday, Feb. 3, at 4 p.m. at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema. The special screening is free and open to the public. Read More

It’s a business where the cry of “strike” is as devastating to the game itself as to the player swinging the bat. The economic concerns of major league baseball—from labor-management relations and legal issues to competitive balance and contraction—will be the focus of a one-day conference at Vanderbilt University on Feb. 21. Read More

More and more tearful goodbyes are happening across the country between American children and parents who are being deployed because of impending war. Read More

Michael Aurbach, professor of art at Vanderbilt, has been elected president of the College Art Association (CAA), a national organization of more than 14,000 individual artists, art historians and other visual arts and museum professionals. Read More

Vanderbilt faculty are available to offer commentary and insight into what effect the prospect of war—and outbreak, should it happen—will have on the U.S. economy. Read More

Vanderbilt University, which remains committed to increasing the supply of affordable housing in Nashville, has renewed its five-year $100,000 investment in the Nashville Housing Fund. Through public and private resources, the nonprofit corporation assists low- and moderate-income families and individuals who want to become successful homeowners, and also works with developers to expand affordable housing options in Nashville. Read More

Renee Levine Melammed, assistant dean of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Israel will present "Defying the Spanish Inquisition: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile" on Sunday, Feb. 2, and "The Forgotten Holocaust Victims: Sephardic Jewry," on Monday, Feb. 3. Read More

Vanderbilt law professor Rebecca Brown and Linda Manning, director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt, will give a talk on the historic Roe v. Wade decision at a noon lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Read More

Patout Burns, the Edward A. Malloy Professor of Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School will lead “The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Church: Explorations of Christianity's Quest for Power,” the fifth in a series of studies exploring religion in the global context of culture, art, politics and economics. Read More

Gisela Mosig, 72, a pioneering genetic researcher and distinguished faculty member at Vanderbilt University, died Jan. 12 at Alive Hospice. She had been undergoing cancer treatment for two years. Read More

David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States, will give a series of lectures at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Read More

Kent D. Syverud, dean and Garner Anthony Professor of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School, was installed as president of the American Law Deans Association (ALDA) at the organization’s annual meeting earlier this month. Read More

Since opening its doors 50 years ago, Vanderbilt’s Arthur J. Dyer Observatory has introduced thousands of Nashvillians to the world of astronomy through school tours, public observation nights and other community programs. Read More

Two of the leading thinkers in class action litigation will meet at Vanderbilt University Law School on Jan. 22 to debate controversial pending legislation that would reform the way class action lawsuits are tried. Read More

A highly competitive graduate-level fellowship program established to encourage economic and democratic growth in Eurasia is bringing a more international flair to the student body at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

David Brogan, a Vanderbilt biomedical engineering senior who combines his studies with cross-country competition and community involvement, has been chosen to receive one of the prestigious Marshall Scholarships. Read More

More and more tearful goodbyes are happening across the country between American children and parents who are being deployed because of impending war. However, children of the American military fare surprisingly well when Mom or Dad is halfway around the world. Read More

Matthew Hale, arrested and charged yesterday in Chicago with soliciting the murder of federal judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow, is a dangerous man leading a radical, well-established group, according to Carol M. Swain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University. Read More