Carol M. Swain, professor of political science and law, was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The council is the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which makes grants supporting research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities. [...]

On March 1, Nicholas S. Zeppos became the first chancellor in more than 70 years to be selected from within the ranks of the university. Formerly interim chancellor, as well as provost, vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of law, Zeppos was unanimously elected by the Board of Trust to serve as the eighth [...]

Isabel Gauthier, associate professor of psychology, has been named a 2008 Troland Research Award winner by the National Academy of Sciences. The prestigious Troland Research Award is given annually to young researchers (age 40 and under) to recognize unusual achievement and to further the recipient’s research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology. Only two [...]

During 2007 and 2008 commencement ceremonies, 12 retiring faculty members of the College of Arts and Science received the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Together the professors represented more than 300 years of teaching excellence. 
Those named emeritus or emerita in 2008 were Matthew Gould, professor of mathematics; Michael D. Plummer, professor of mathematics; and [...]

A chance meeting between a Vanderbilt professor and the grandson of one of Ecuador’s most acclaimed artists led to Vanderbilt’s role in the first U.S. exhibition of that artist’s works in more than 50 years. Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín premiered in February at Vanderbilt’s Fine Arts Gallery and the Sarratt [...]

Delbert Mann with George C. Scott during the making of the movie *The Last Days of Patton.*

Delbert Mann, BA’41, died in Los Angeles November 13, 2007, at the age of 87. One of the top directors during Hollywood’s golden age of television, Mann received an Academy Award as best director for the movie Marty [...]

Vanderbilt’s English department is ranked as the No. 1 small, prestigious Ph.D. program in the nation by the Guide to Graduate Programs (www.graduate-school.phds.org), sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Kaplan/Newsweek, publisher of the How to Get into College guide, selected Vanderbilt University as one of the “New Ivies” for the [...]