Jim Parker, aka university webmaster, has authored a chapter in what looks to be an interesting new book, “Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers,” coming out in May ‘08 from University of Texas Press. Take a look at Jim’s chapter, “Where is the Shaman?”, if for no other reason [...]
My hometown paper is positively gushing about a unique event that took place on the Vanderbilt campus last week - the first meeting of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers. Read The Inquirer’s coverage here, and listen to the keynote speaker Anita Allen (from U. Penn, hence the City of Brotherly Love’s interest) delivering her [...]
Former Brazilian President Ferando Cardoso spoke at Vanderbilt last night, continuing the fascinating 60-year relationship the university has with his country. Read that story here, and watch the video on VUCast.
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, director of the Vanderbilt Program in African American and Diaspora Studies, is set to testify Tuesday, Sept. 25, in Washington before the Congressional Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce on the topic of “From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images.” The hearings will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 2123 [...]
Vanderbilt has an excellent lunch program in place that’s a well-kept secret, if you count gathering 300 strangers together at the Nashville Public Library six or seven times a year to eat lunch and talk philosophy as a secret. But it kind of is–it’s one of those things that those in the know know, you [...]
Treating teens with mental health issues is about to become more scientific. Vanderbilt’s Peabody College researchers have just finished developing the Peabody Treatment Progress Battery, or PTPB. This short battery of questions will help clinicians evaluate their teenage clients’ progress. Until now, there was not a system to evaluate treatment effectiveness outside [...]
Check out a podcast by Anya Kamenetz, Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist and writer, on the debt problems faced by young people today. Kamenetz covers everything from student loans to credit cards. Click here for the podcast and more info.
A symposium focusing on violence against women had to turn away would-be participants. The turnout for this first time event was greater than expected, forcing the organizers to cap attendance. The symposium, entitled “The Healing Journey: Surviving Violence Against Women” was presented by VUPD, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s [...]
Vanderbilt MBA student Ebenezer Aryee had to put his studies on hold in 2005. The Owen Graduate School of Management student interrupted his education when the United Nations asked him to manage the peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone. He is now the contracts management officer with the UN Mission in Sudan. Throughout the [...]
Winnter Reynolds is only 11, but she may hold a clue to one of the most legendary family feuds in American history. Reynolds is a descendent of the McCoy family, one half of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. She also has a genetic disorder called von Hippel-Lindau, which causes tumors to grow on different organ [...]
