June 2011 Vanderbilt View
Summer Fun
Jun. 2, 2011—Art, food, culture and adventure await you on Vanderbilt's campus.
Between Two Worlds
Jun. 2, 2011—Cristiana Grigore is Roma, a member of the largest ethnic minority in Europe. Over the course of her journey from her native Romania to Peabody College at Vanderbilt, she has become an ambassador for her people, an advocate for social inclusion, and is striving to make a difference at the international level.
Help in a Pinch
Jun. 2, 2011—What do you do when you have a sick child but can’t miss work? An elderly parent who needs care but you just can’t be there? Parents in a Pinch, Vanderbilt’s new backup care benefit, provides trusted help when harried employees need it most.
Stripped Away
Jun. 2, 2011—There are any number of circumstances in which people can effectively lose some or most of their basic rights, says Colin Dayan, the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities. In her new research, Dayan argues that the law has been refined so that it can be used to deny the very rights it’s presumably there to protect.
Editor’s Note
Jun. 2, 2011—Learn from the cicadas and live your life to the fullest.
Kudos
Jun. 2, 2011—Read about Vanderbilt faculty, staff, student and alumni's latest awards, appointments and achievements
Looking Back
Jun. 2, 2011—In 1954, 65,000 people filled Vanderbilt Stadium to hear The Rev. Billy Graham speak.
The Last Word
Jun. 2, 2011—Terrie Barrow has found health, hope and healing in her "urban garden."