Even though the baseball team had a disappointing loss to Arkansas last weekend, the team bounced back to beat MTSU. The #3 ‘Dores will face #1 South Carolina this coming weekend. The No. 21 women’s tennis team will travel to meet No. 26 Tennessee and No. 5 Georgia on Friday and Sunday. [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 30, 2007
New way to fight TB
The World Health Organization says at least eight million new active cases of tuberculosis surface each year. One-third of the world’s population is infected with TB and every second, another person is newly infected. The Vanderbilt Medical Center is pioneering a new treatment for TB. Click here to watch the video. (Video [...]
March 30, 2007
Students support Darfur
This Saturday Vanderbilt students will participate in the first STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) Walk on campus. Students will meet to walk a loop around campus. STAND hopes to raise awareness about the current situation in Darfur and the challenges the refugees are facing. Get more info at InsideVandy.com.
March 30, 2007
New rankings in, Vanderbilt schools jumping up the list
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2007 graduate school rankings and Vanderbilt schools have climbed yet again. Peabody College leads the pack at #3 (Harvard tied with us) in graduate education schools. Peabody follows closely behind Teachers College at Columbia University and Stanford University. Owen Graduate School of Management jumped [...]
March 30, 2007
White House & Congress playing chicken?
Stefanie Lindquist, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt, says that the president and Congress are playing a game of chicken over the controversial subpoenas of top White House aides. Though neither one is willing to back down, both parties stand a chance of losing political ground if it comes down to a [...]
March 30, 2007
Vanderbilt students win Goldwater Scholarships
Three Vanderbilt students have been awarded 2007 Goldwater Scholarships. The scholarships, awarded by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, provide the students with up to $7,500 to study mathematics, science and engineering. Vanderbilt’s winners were Samuel D. Cooper, Brent M. Dorr and Peter C. Scully. Visit VUCast to [...]
March 27, 2007
Hold the angioplasty, please
In research sure to blow the valves off of heart disease treatment, Vanderbilt cardiologist Dr. David Maron and colleagues have found that the widely used angioplasty procedure is not particularly helpful to patients. Whoa. Read coverage of the research in The Tennessean.
March 27, 2007
Live video of Suarez at Vanderbilt tonight
The NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez will be speaking tonight about things one generally doesn’t talk about in polite company – religion and politics. Tune in to VUCast at 7 p.m. for live streaming video of the lecture. Archives will be up later this week.
March 23, 2007
Sheryl Crow on campus
Sheryl Crow will perform at Vanderbilt on April 18 as part of the Stop Global Warming College Tour. The event is free, but only open to the Vanderbilt community. Check out InsideVandy.com for more info on the concert, tickets, and student reactions to the tour.
March 23, 2007
Med Center nurses lead new vision screenings
Nurse practitioners with the Vanderbilt Medical Center have just reported the first results of an ongoing vision screening program/study. This screenings are taking place at the Vine Hill Community Clinic, a nurse practitioner-run facility that provides primary care to indigent families. The vision screenings are targeting diabetes-related eye problems and sight loss. [...]
