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MEDIA ADVISORY: Vanderbilt University community coming together to send messages of support to Virginia Tech
Vanderbilt Student Government will have a table at Sarratt Student Center where members of the Vanderbilt community can express their support for Virginia Tech by signing a message book that will be sent to the school. Read MoreApr 18, 2007
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National and local businesses turn to young minds for big ideas; Vanderbilt Accelerator Program will take on Whirlpool and others
Major companies across the country are turning to the Accelerator-Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute to get fresh ideas on how to raise their products and programs to a new level. Read MoreApr 12, 2007
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Vanderbilt Summer Academy recruiting gifted youth for unique summer school
School in the summer might not sound good to most kids, but what if that school is one of the nation's top universities, the classes explorations of cutting-edge science, art, law, music and more, and the students some of the brightest around? Summer school suddenly sounds a lot better. Read MoreApr 2, 2007
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Three Vanderbilt students win Goldwater Scholarships; Program encourages careers in math, science and engineering
Three Vanderbilt University students have been awarded 2007 Goldwater Scholarships, earning up to $7,500 a year to pursue the study of mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Read MoreMar 30, 2007
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CEO leads Accelerator program at Owen Graduate School of Management; Michael Burcham brings innovative new projects to “business boot camp”
Adjunct professor of health care innovation and entrepreneurship Michael Burcham is using his expertise as a teacher and a current CEO to lead a team of fellow professors, students and volunteers for this year's Accelerator-Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute. Read MoreMar 28, 2007
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Vanderbilt students lead discussion on how to fight poverty; Group says it wants to change the world from the “bottom up”
More than 4 billion people around the world are considered poor, earning an average of $2 a day. A highly motivated group of Vanderbilt students want to change that statistic and is inviting fellow students to come together to share ideas. Read MoreMar 19, 2007
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Vanderbilt University students spending spring break in inner cities, rural areas serving those stricken with poverty, AIDS and homelessness
This spring, hundreds of Vanderbilt University students will trade in golden beaches and tropical locales for poverty-stricken rural areas and depressed inner cities. They will exchange frivolous fun in the sun for community service and experiences that many alumni consider life-altering as part of the university‘s Alternative Spring Break Program March 3-7. Read MoreMar 2, 2007
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2007 Ingram Scholars chosen
Thirteen incoming freshmen have been chosen from a record more than 600 applicants as the newest members of the Ingram Scholarship program. Read MoreFeb 23, 2007
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Vanderbilt University students to dance the night away for a good cause; 14-hour event to benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital
More than 500 Vanderbilt University students will dance the night away to benefit the health and well-being of area children during Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run event to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Children‘s Miracle Network. Read MoreFeb 19, 2007
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Student engineers work hard at play during E-Week
In a series of challenging but fun competitions, the engineering students at Vanderbilt University will display their ingenuity and inventiveness to celebrate National Engineers Week February 19-24. Read MoreFeb 19, 2007
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Weekend at Vanderbilt to give top young students taste of college
You‘ve heard of junior colleges. Vanderbilt University is offering a new twist — junior junior college — for talented seventh through tenth graders. Read MoreFeb 15, 2007
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Two Vanderbilt sophomores start company, nonprofit to help children in Uganda
Vanderbilt sophomores Henry Manice and Wil Keenan‘s two-month trip to Uganda last summer changed lives — theirs and the lives of many Ugandan artisans and children. Read MoreFeb 1, 2007
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Freedom Ride 2007 inspires participants to create change
Four Gray Line buses idle noisily at the curb by Branscomb Quadrangle as the sun slowly rises over a sleeping Greek Row. A group has quietly gathered on the steps out front -- a mix of students, faculty and staff -- shouldering overnight bags and sipping cups of coffee while members of the media prepare to capture their departure. Read MoreJan 30, 2007
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Video: Students, faculty and staff join Freedom Riders to revisit historic 1961 trip
Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff retraced the 1961 Freedom Rides with some of the original Freedom Riders as they traveled to Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala. Among the participants was Congressman John Lewis, Diane Nash, Bernard Lafayette, the Rev. C.T. Vivian, Jim Zwerg, John Seigenthaler and the Rev. James Lawson. More than four decades after being expelled from the university for helping fight segregation in Nashville, Lawson returned to Vanderbilt as a Distinguished University Professor. Read MoreJan 25, 2007
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Turn that off! Can college students live without media or technology?; Vanderbilt students prepare to undergo a 24-hour “blackout”
It seems these days young people can‘t live without their cell phones, iPods, laptops, gaming systems and especially television. A Vanderbilt professor is putting that theory to the test. Read MoreJan 25, 2007
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Vanderbilt student team selected as finalist in MTV-U Ecomagination Challenge; Vote online
Leftover vegetable oil from Vanderbilt Dining Services will be turned into biodiesel fuel, if a student team wins a national competition for a $25,000 grant to fund campus-based environmental projects. Read MoreJan 18, 2007
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Sopranos star‘s talk about battle with eating disorder rescheduled for Feb. 15
Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos will talk about her battle with anorexia Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read MoreJan 17, 2007
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Vanderbilt participates in national theatre festival; 10 short productions to be performed the week of Jan. 22
There will be a lot of drama on the Vanderbilt University campus each day at high noon during the week of Jan. 22. Read MoreJan 12, 2007
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UNESCO internship offered to Vanderbilt student; Monica Gibson to spend spring semester in Paris
Monica Gibson, a Vanderbilt University graduate student working on her master‘s in public policy at Peabody College, has been offered an internship at the U.S. mission to UNESCO in Paris. She will be one of two American interns serving this spring. Read MoreJan 11, 2007
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College student success: it‘s more than graduation rates
Ask most faculty, administrators, staff and students if they are interested in helping students succeed in college and the answer is likely to be a resounding yes. Ask them what exactly they mean by student success and the answer will probably be much more muddied. Read MoreDec 11, 2006