April 8-15, 2002

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A Beautiful Mind

Photo by Neil Brake

Herbert Y. Meltzer, chair of the schizophrenia program at Vanderbilt's Psychiatric Hospital, and John F. Nash Jr., 1994 winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, were interviewed by 60 Minutes April 5. Nash visited Vanderbilt April 3-7 and spoke at several events. See Nash lectures at Vanderbilt.

 

 

 

Monday, April 8

  • Vanderbilt Swim School Lessons. April 8-19. From age 6 months to adult. Open to the public. Classes are from 3:45-4:25 p.m.; 4:30-5:10 p.m.; and 5:15-5:55 p.m. Additional information or to register: call 322-7946.  
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar. "Barometric Pumping for Characterization and Remediation." Dr. Joseph Rossabi. 4:10-5 p.m. 138 Featheringill Hall. Additional information: call Elaine Chisum at 343-5415.  
  • Chemistry Colloquium. "New Organometallic Mediated Cross-Coupling and Cycloaddition Reactions for the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products." P. Andrew Evans. 4:15-5:15 p.m. 5212H Stevenson Center. Additional information: call 322-2861 or visit www.vanderbilt. edu/AnS/Chemistry/chemmain/ chemhome.html.
  • Undergraduate Admissions. Accepted Students Phonathon. April 8-10 and April 15-17. 5-9 p.m. Call students from your hometown to encourage them to join Vanderbilt's class of 2006! Additional information: e-mail Natalie Greer at natalie.greer@vanderbilt.edu.  
  • Special Lecture in Mathematics. "Creativity and Opposition to new Ideas." Stephen Smale. 6:15-7:30 p.m. 126 Wilson Hall. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 322-6672.
  • Vanderbilt Divinity School, Relevant Religion Series. "Justice and the Things That Make for Peace: Three Religious Traditions." Jack Sasson, Patout Burns and local leaders of Islamic communities. 7-8 p.m. Laskey Building, Scarritt-Bennett Center. $50. Reservations required. Open to the public. Additional information or to register: call 340-7543, e-mail: spiritus@scarrittbennett.org or visit http://divinity.library.vanderbilt. edu/div/index.html.
  • Blair School of Music, Concert Series. Allan Cox and Friends! 8-9:30 p.m. Ingram Hall. Tickets: Adults, $10; Vanderbilt Faculty/staff, $8; and Students/seniors, $5. Additional information: call 322-7651 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/blair.
  • Wake Up America Speaker Event. "How the Left Undermined America's Security." David Horowitz. 8 p.m. 103 Wilson Hall. Note: Seating begins at 7 p.m. Additional information: e-mail Charlotte Montiel at charlotte.l.montiel@vanderbilt.edu or Brett Austin at brett.d.austin@vanderbilt.edu.

Tuesday, April 9

  • Training and Development, a Division of Employment Practices. "Building Your Team" Class. April 9-10. 8 a.m.-noon. Fee. Reservations required. Additional information: call at 322-8320 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/HRS/train/classes.htm.
  • University Staff Advisory Council meeting. 8:30 a.m. 189 Sarratt. Additional information: call 936-0959 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/usac/sched.htm.  
  • Grand Rounds in Clinical Pharmacology. "Ethical Issues in Designing Genetic Studies." Dr. Dan Roden, Dr. David Haas and Carol Freund. 8:30-9:30 a.m. 206 PRB. Additional information: call 322-3304.
  • Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds. "The Housing Crisis for the Severely, Persistently Mentally Ill Population of Tennessee." Marie Williams. 11 a.m.-noon. 206 PRB. Additional information: call Carolyn Hall at 322-2665.  
  • Kim Dayani Center. Pilates at Dayani! Gryzwana-Teague Zan Walker, teachers. Tuesdays and Thursdays. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Classes are free to Dayani members and $8/class for non-members. Additional information: e-mail Jeanna Barrett-Rice at jeanna.barrett@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu.
  • Women's Tennis. Vanderbilt vs. University of Texas. Currey Tennis Center. 2:30 p.m. Additional information: call (877) 44-VANDY, 322-GOLD or visit www.vucommodores.com/womentennis/womentennis.html.  
  • Information Meeting for HIL and ISIL Participants. Students participating in the Humanities in London and International Studies in London programs, Summer 2002. 4-5 p.m. 4309 Stevenson Center. Additional information: e-mail Ann Oslin at ann.oslin@vanderbilt.edu.  
  • Mathematics Colloquium. "Evolution of Language." Stephen Smale. 4:10-5 p.m. 1431 Stevenson Center. Open to the public. Additional information: call 322-6672 or visit www.math.vanderbilt.edu.
  • Special Speaker Event. "Gendering Social Memory: Women in Nation-building Projects." Bina D'Costa. 4:10-5:10 p.m. 204 Calhoun. Open to campus. Additional information: e-mail Brooke Ackerly at brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu.
  • Faculty Salon "V" Gathering. 4:30-6 p.m. Faculty Reading Room, Divinity School. Additional information: call Shelly Sowell at 322-4959.  
  • Vanderbilt Dining. Dinner Plan, "Encounters." New program that bring faculty, staff and students together to encourage interaction. 5-7 p.m. Rand Hall. Additional information: call Kim at 322-1877 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/dining.  
  • Special Lecture. "It's a Men's Issue!" Don McPherson. 5:30-7 p.m. 101 Garland. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 322-4843.
  • Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Awareness Seminar. "Cancer in The Family: Coping, Communicating and Caring." Warren Thompson and Felice Apolinsky. 5:30-7 p.m. VICC 8th Floor Conference Center, PRB. Open to the public. Additional information: call 936-5855.
  • Film. Stalker Nashville Premieres. April 9-10. 7 p.m. and 10:20 p.m. April 13. 3 p.m. Cinema, Sarratt Student Center. Tickets: $4, General admission; and $3, Vanderbilt students. Additional information: call 322-2425 or the Sarratt Cinema Hotline at 343-6666.  
  • Dyer Public Nights. 7-9 p.m. 1000 Oman Drive, Brentwood, Tenn. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 373-4897 or visit www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu.
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Wednesday, April 10

  • Vanderbilt's Human Resources Department. "Career Choices and Connections," an internal Career Day for Vanderbilt staff. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. University Club. Additional information or to schedule an appointment: call 343-2383.
  • World on Wednesdays. "Stranger in a Strange Land." Noon-1 p.m. 189 Sarratt. Additional information: e-mail isss@vanderbilt.edu.
  • Department of Cardiology Grand Rounds. "Keshan Disease." Dr. Raymond F. Burke. Noon-1 p.m. 206 PRB. Additional information: call Emily Freeman at 322-2318.
  • Men's Tennis. Vanderbilt vs. MTSU. Currey Tennis Center. 2 p.m. Additional information or ticket sales: call (877) 44-VANDY, 322-GOLD or visit www.vucommodores.com/mentennis/mentennis.html.
  • Faculty Forum. "Professional Education: At the Cutting Edge." Dean William Christie, Professor Randall Thomas, Senior Associate Dean Deborah German, School of Medicine and Associate Dean James Hogge, Peabody College, panelists. 4-5:30 p.m. Alumni Room, Vanderbilt University Law School. Additional information: call 322-6000.
  • Special Film Event. The Rose Seller. 5:30 p.m. 103 Wilson Hall. Additional information: call Norma Antillón at 322-2527.  
  • Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Special Speaker Event. "Civil Rights Experiences." Gwendolyn Baines, Vereen Bell, Councilwoman Brenda Gilmore, Larry Griffin and Lucius Outlaw. 7-8:30 p.m. Black Cultural Center. Additional information: e-mail Sophia Green at sophia.a.greer@vanderbilt.edu
  • Sigma Chi Special Event. Hate Crimes Panel, part of the "Hate: Not in MY Community!" Campaign. Brandon Wolfe, Brandon Wilson, Peter Van Do and James Osborn, panelists. 7:30-9 p.m. Sigma Chi House. Additional information: e-mail Julia Park at julia.j.park@vanderbilt.edu.
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Thursday, April 11

  • Bill Wilkerson Center for Communication Sciences/Department of Otolaryngology Workshop. April 11-12. "Encoscopic Frontal Sinus Surgery: Contemporary Concept," and "Endoscopic Revision Sinus Surgery." 7-8 a.m. Light Hall, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. James A Duncavage, course director. Additional information: call 322-4030.  
  • Division of Rheumatology and Immunology Conference. "Changing the Way We Think About Outcomes of Rheumatoid Arthritis." Dr. Theodore P. Pincus. 11:30 a.m.-noon. AA-1206 MCN. Additional information: call 322-4746.
  • The Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (CNRU). "Epidemiological Studies of Dietary Factors for Breast Cancer Risk." Dr. Wei Zheng. Noon-1 p.m. 206 PRB. Additional information: call 343-7740.
  • Special Speaker Event. "Feminist Dialogues: Representing the 'Other': Situating the Self Feminist Methodology and Fieldwork." Bina D'Costa. 4:10 p.m. The Warren Center. Limited seating available for this event. Additional information: e-mail Brooke Ackerly at brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu.
  • Department of Biological Sciences. "Sensing Effectors make Sense. Examples from Leeches and other Critters." Dr. Angela Wenning. 4:10-5:10 p.m. 2212 Stevenson Center. Additional information: call Terri Johnson at 322-2008.  
  • Project Dialogue. "In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: Public Education and the American Welfare State." Dr. Michael Katz. 4:10-5:30 p.m. Branscomb South Dining Room. Additional information: call 343-0350.  
  • Chancellor's Lecture Series, The Lecture on Great Teaching. "Education in Network Culture." Mark C. Taylor. 6-7:30 p.m. Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School. Reception, 5-6 p.m. Flynn Auditorium Lobby, Vanderbilt Law School. Free and open to the public. Parking is available at the Terrace Place Garage. Additional information: call 322-4959.
  • Film. Walking Life, Nashville Film Society Pick. April 11-13, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.; and April 12-13, midnight. Cinema, Sarratt Student Center. Tickets: $4, General admission; and $3, Vanderbilt students. Additional information: call 322-2425 or the Sarratt Cinema Hotline at 343-6666.  
  • Blair School of Music, Faculty Recital. Jama Reagan, piano. 8-9:15 p.m. Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 322-7651 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/blair.  April 5 

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Friday, April 12

  • Peabody College Music Reunion, April 12-13. Peabody invites all alumni of its former music school to take advantage of a rare opportunity to reunite and reminisce. Additional information: call Earl Hinton at 893-8888 or Shirley Watts at 298-3998.
  • Surgical Grand Rounds. "Specialty Choice: What Medical Students Are Thinking." Dr. Bonnie Miller; and "Paraesophageal Hernia's." Dr. Michael D. Holzman. 7-8 a.m. 208 Light Hall. Additional information: call 322-2363.  
  • Outdoor Recreation Center Trip Sign up Deadlines. Hiking trip to Radnor Lake State Natural Area. Trip date. April 21. Cost: $2; and Backpacking trip to Citico Creek Wilderness Area, Tenn. Trip. May 2-5. $50. Additional information: call Linda Rosenkranz at 343-7898 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/CampusRecreation/outrec.
  • Center for Teaching F2P2 Workshop Spring Series. "Retaining African-American College Students." Noon-1 p.m. 116 Sarratt. Shederick McClendon, facilitator. Reservations required, e-mail: sa.mcclendon@vanderbilt.edu. Additional information: visit F2P2 on the Web www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/f2p2.
  • Dissertation. "The Washington Way." Phyllis V. Thompson, Department of Leadership and Organizations (James W. Guthrie, major adviser). 2:30-4:30 p.m. 223 Wyatt Center. Additional information: call 322-8000.
  • Philosophy Department Colloquium. "Dreaming." Jody Azzouni. 3:15-5 p.m. 109 Furman Hall. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call Judy Thompson at 322-2637.
  • Baseball. Vanderbilt vs. South Carolina. 7 p.m. Hawkins Field. Additional information or ticket sales: call (877) 44-VANDY, 322-GOLD or visit www.vucommodores.com/baseball/baseball.html.
  • Great Performances at Vanderbilt. The Grupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Theater. April 12-13. 8 p.m. Langford Auditorium. Tickets: $28, $24 and $20. Vanderbilt faculty/staff, students at all levels and children: $14; and Vanderbilt students: $7. Tickets are available through all TicketMaster outlets (255-9600 or www. ticketmaster.com). Additional information or for handicapped seating or assistance: call 322-2471.
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Saturday, April 13

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Sunday, April 14
  • Eucharist Early Service. 9 a.m. St. Augustine's Episcopal Chapel. Additional information: call Mark Forrester at 343-0261.  
  • Episcopal and Methodist Cooperative Service. 10 a.m. Sunday School. 11 a.m. Cooperative Worship and Holy Communion for Episcopal and Methodist communities. 5:30 p.m. Bible study. St. Augustine's Chapel. Additional information: call Becca Stevens at 322-4783.
  • Vanderbilt University Hospital Chapel Service. 10-10:30 a.m. The Rhea Chapel, lobby of the Vanderbilt Hospital. Patients, families and hospital staff are invited to attend. Additional information: call Lisa Meyers at 343-3535.
  • Vanderbilt Catholic Community Mass. 11 a.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Benton Chapel. Additional information: call Father Pratt at 322-0104 or 322-2457.  
  • Baseball. Vanderbilt vs. South Carolina. 1 p.m. Hawkins Field. Additional information or ticket sales: call (877) 44-VANDY, 322-GOLD or visit www.vucommodores.com/baseball/baseball.html.  
  • Blair School of Music Chamber Choir Concert. David Childs, conductor. 4-5:15 p.m. Ingram Hall. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 322-7651 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/blair.
  • Vanderbilt Jazz Band Concert. Chris Cooper, conductor. 8-9:30 p.m. Ingram Hall. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 322-7651 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/blair.

Monday, April 15

  • The Office of Schedules and Reservations will start accepting "Standing Weekly Meeting Reservations" today. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Additional information: call 322-2448.  
  • Vanderbilt Program Board, Special Activities Event. "Wax Hands and Candles." 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Games on the Lawn/Sarratt Promenade. Additional information: e-mail Cathy Castellon at cathy.m.castellon@vanderbilt.edu.
  • Men Promoting a Solution (MPAS) Project. "These Hands Don't Hurt!" 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wall at Rnd. Additional information: call 322-1333.
  • Training and Development, a Division of Employment Practices, Individual Growth and Support Brown-Bag Series. "If I Could Have a V8" Class. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. No fee. Reservations required. Additional information: call 322-8320.
  • Pathology Grand Rounds. "Turkeys, Lymphomas, Follicular Centers and Flexner." Dr. Thomas L. McCurley. Noon-1 p.m. 415 Light Hall. Additional information: call 322-6130.  
  • Department of Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds. "What the Emergency Physician Needs to Know About Clinical Forensic Medicine." Dr. William S. Smock. Noon-1 p.m. 206 PRB. Additional information: call 936-1324.
  • Research! America and Vanderbilt University, Science/Media Forum. 1-5 p.m. Rotunda, Wyatt Center. Keynote address. "Successfully Sharing Stories of Science." Dr. Richard Klausner; and 2:15 p.m. Science/Media Panel Discussion. John Seigenthaler, Sr., moderator. Reception. 4 p.m. Lobby, Wyatt Center. Reservations required. Contact Sheilah Miller Satterwhite at (703) 739-2577, extension 10 or e-mail:miller@researchamerica.org.  
  • Kennedy Center, Conversation on Visual Arts and Autism and Reception for Artists. 4-5 p.m. 241 Kennedy Center/ MRL Building. Additional information: call 322-8240 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/kennedy.
  • Warren Center Lecture. Gender & Sexuality Lecture. "The Incredible Shrinking Public: the Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism." Lisa Duggan. 126 Wilson Hall. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 343-6060 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center.
  • Project Safe Performance. "Don't Speak My Mother's Name in Vain." Reanae McNeal. 7-9 p.m. Cinema, Sarratt Student Center. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 322-1333.  
  • Blair School of Music, Faculty Composers Concert. 8:30-9:30 p.m. Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Additional information: call 322-7651 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/blair.