Vandy poli sci expert John Geer stays super busy during election season, teaching, researching and talking with the media. Today he’s quoted on the Huffington Post about the McCain campaign’s use of attack ads, in the eye-catchingtly headlined item “John McCain: Mr. Nice Guy or Back Alley Mugger?”
“John G. Geer is a Vanderbilt political scientist [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Geer on Huffington, and the importance of bananas
July 30, 2008
The Commons is coming, The Commons is coming!
The buzz here on campus is all Commons, all the time, as we eagerly await the arrival of the Class of 2012 on Aug. 16. They will, of course, be the first class to live in the new living-learning environment we’ve constructed for freshmen. The latest:
Nice mention of the environmentally friendly standards to which the [...]
July 22, 2008
What CAN’T coffee do?
The latest news from Dr. Peter Martin, head of our Institute for Coffee Studies and the Vanderbilt Division of Addiction Medicine, finds that there might be a reason Alcoholics Anonymous meetings move more java than Starbucks on a good day–coffee may acutally help alcoholics quit drinking.
“Is this behavior simply a way to bond or connect [...]
July 1, 2008
VU featured in new Apple video
The university’s iTunes U presence is the star of a new video produced by Apple and featured on the higher ed section of their Web site. The video was shot by a lovely and talented Apple team and their stellar freelance video crew on the Vanderbilt campus back in March. (Much of it was shot [...]
