Releases

John Seigenthaler, nationally acclaimed newspaper editor and First Amendment advocate, is getting an unexpected present for his 75th birthday Saturday: Vanderbilt University officials announced July 26 that one of the university’s newest buildings is being named after Seigenthaler. Read More

Vanderbilt University and the Freedom Forum will make a major announcement at 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 26 to mark the 75th birthday Saturday of First Amendment Center founder and The Tennessean chairman emeritus John Seigenthaler. Read More

Michael Durant, retired U.S. Army chief warrant officer and Blackhawk helicopter pilot whose capture by Somali fighters was depicted in the film “Blackhawk Down,” will take questions from the media 3 p.m. Thursday, July 25, in Room 231 of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

More than 1,000 people gathered on the lawn at Vanderbilt Wednesday for some old-fashioned politicking complete with candidate handshakes, hot dogs and a Dixie Land jazz band. Read More

What is the difference between a violin and a fiddle? Find out as Crystal Plohman, protégé of Mark O’Connor and director of the fiddle program at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, leads a team featuring Vassar Clements and other acclaimed fiddle masters in a series of workshops and concerts at the Summer Fiddle Camp at Vanderbilt July 28-August 3. Read More

The following Vanderbilt University professors are available for comment and analysis concerning the August 1 Tennessee primary: Read More

.—“Alternate Visions,” an exhibit by the artists of Minds Wide Open, a program of The Arc of the Bluegrass, Inc., is on display in the foyer of the John F. Kennedy Center/MRL Building on Vanderbilt’s Peabody College campus through Sept. 30. Read More

Metropolitan Nashville candidates for vice mayor, sheriff and school board (Hillsboro Cluster) will take part in a July 22 public forum for residents of the 18th Council District. Read More

The Alumni Association of Vanderbilt University has named as its 2002 Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Thomas F. Frist Jr., a 1961 graduate of the College of Arts and Science who helped found what became the world’s largest hospital management corporation. The award will be presented Oct. 24 during the University’s reunion weekend. Read More

Vanderbilt Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Mark D. Abkowitz has been appointed by President Bush to a four-year term on the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to provide advice on transportation issues. Read More

The increasingly negative tone of the U.S. Senate race in Tennessee underscores the importance of the state as a battleground between Republicans and Democrats to control the Senate, according to John Geer, a Vanderbilt University expert on attack politics. The political scientist points to the recent attack ads by GOP Senate primary foes Lamar Alexander and Ed Bryant as a reflection of an increasingly bitter campaign, a trend that is not likely to end soon. Read More

National Instruments of Austin, Texas, has announced plans to donate its LabVIEW™ graphical development software to Vanderbilt engineering students. Each fall the company will provide copies of its software with an estimated annual market value of $750,000 to incoming freshmen. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management Entrepreneurship Center has entered into an alliance with BizTech, the five-year-old technology incubator based in Huntsville, Ala. The first project on which the organizations will collaborate is The Olin B. King Entrepreneurial Workshop Series, a nine-part series of workshops that begins in July. Read More

A new approach may finally make “smart structures” scalable. Read More

Susan Barge, former associate dean of undergraduate admissions at Vanderbilt University, has been appointed to the new position of assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs. Read More

A Little Rock, Ark., student is the first recipient of the John Seigenthaler Scholarship at Vanderbilt University. The scholarship was established last summer through a gift from the Freedom Forum in honor of the founder of the organization’s First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt. Read More

Bill Ivey, Harvie Branscomb Distiguished Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt, has received a Special Award for leadership and advocacy in the arts from Arts Management News Service in recognition of his work as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 1998-2001. Read More

A national traveling exhibit highlighting the history of African Americans’ quest for equality under American law will open at Nashville’s downtown public library May 18. Read More

The United States Fulbright Scholar Program has awarded a special field research award to Greg Barz, assistant professor of musicology (ethnomusicology) and professor of religious music at Vanderbilt, to continue his research documenting the links between a recent decline in Uganda’s HIV infection rate and the efforts of women’s performance groups in poor villages. Read More