You know how you can be well aware of a momentous change, but it doesn’t really sink in until something relatively minor comes along to remind you? That happened today, when I saw Mike Schoenfeld’s name missing from our news release distribution list. And our divisional phone list. Just like that – no more Mike.
I [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 30, 2008
Change
May 28, 2008
Stimulating brains
Have you heard of deep brain stimulation? DBS, for those in the know? If not, or even if so, prepare to have your eyes opened this afternoon with a live webcast of a demonstration of this technique by Vanderbilt neurosurgeons and neurologists.
The DBS technique to be demonstrated today involves the implantation of a “neuro-stimulator to [...]
May 27, 2008
Remembering RFK
The coolest Vanderbilt event happening today isn’t on campus but in D.C. Lessons learned from Robert F. Kennedy’s run for the White House in 1968, and his overall career, are the topic of a forum at the Newseum co-hosted by Vanderbilt underway right now (go to C-SPAN to watch).
The forum, “To Seek a Newer World: [...]
May 23, 2008
More awards
Well it looks like it’s awards season and there’s more good news today for our team:
The Vanderbilt View has won a gold medal in the national CASE competition in the Internal Tabloids / Newsletter category and a gold medal from the Tennessee College Public Relations Association. Congratulations Joan Brasher, Kara Furlong, Deborah Brewington, Donna Pritchett, [...]
May 22, 2008
Go Glenna!
Vanderbilt’s own crack student journalist Glenna DeRoy hs been named to the college journalism association UWIRE’s prestigious Top 100 Student Journalist List for 2008. While carrying a full courseload, Glenna put in over 40-hour work weeks making InsideVandy and The Hustler two of the most innovative student news outlets in the country. Her success is [...]
May 21, 2008
CASE logic
Good news for the internal communications team here in Public Affairs – we’ve won a national silver medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in the Individual Public Relations and Community Relations Projects category for our new internal communications program that includes for myVU, myVU Preview and the Vanderbilt View. Congratulations [...]
May 20, 2008
Commodore Boom Town
Big news from Vanderbilt Athletics today – $50 million expansion planned for all things Commodore. Improvements underway and planned include upgrades to Vanderbilt Stadium, Memorial Gym, Hawkins Field, the McGugin Center and a new Commodore Hall of Fame. The hall’s inaugural class will be inducted this fall. Get video, photos and more here.
May 14, 2008
Help
The Vanderbilt University Chinese Students and Scholars Association has organized a fundraising effort on behalf of the victims of the devastating May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province. VUCSSA members are staffing a donation box outside of Eskind Library today and tomorrow from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. They are also accepting donations, made payable to [...]
May 13, 2008
D.C. and Hollywood:BFF?
From Serious Popcorn, the blog of media critic Martha Bayles, comes a discussion of a recent forum for Congressional and federal agency staff hosted by Vanderbilt’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy in D.C. on the export of American films and the tight relationship between Hollywood and Washington that facilitates it. Bayles’ post [...]
May 12, 2008
Accounting for success
The big question for new graduates departing our sunny shores, so to speak, last weekend was, what’s next? Or, did you get a job? Turns out 100 percent – every single student – in the Owen Graduate School of Management’s Masters of Accountancy program left Vanderbilt employed. That’s right, one hundred percent found jobs before [...]
