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Vanderbilt was named to an “honor roll” of universities with full female professors in economics. The list was compiled by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) of the American Economic Association.
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Thomas A. Schwartz and Matthias Schulz to discuss "The Strained Alliance"
Recently declassified archival materials offer new insight into the reasons behind the changing dynamics of transatlantic relations since the 1970s, according to Thomas Alan Schwartz, co-editor of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter.
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Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols to feature a cappella vocal group
The Schola Pacis, Nashville’s male a cappella group, will present the 129-year-old program Festival of Lessons and Carols Dec. 13 at Benton Chapel on the campus of Vanderbilt University.
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Third through sixth graders in the Edgehill neighborhood will have the opportunity to interact with educational leaders from around the world Dec. 3 during Passport Day at the Edgehill Library.
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Woodrow “Woody” Lucas, a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, was one of only two recipients of a Ph.D. Trailblazer Award for 2009 from the National Black MBA Association at the annual meeting in New Orleans.
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Bruce Cooil, The Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management, is co-author of a paper that won the Best Practitioner Presentation Award at the 2009 Frontiers in Service Conference held recently in Honolulu.
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Camilla Benbow, dean of Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, received the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2009 Presidential Award at the group’s annual convention in St. Louis, which was held Nov. 5-8.
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Khaled Hosseini, author of bestselling books The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, will receive Vanderbilt University’s prestigious Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal in May 2010 when he will address graduating seniors and their families during Senior Day.
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The recent vote in Congress on health care reform – with only one Republican lawmaker voting yes – provides more evidence of the growing polarization between the parties and the fundamentally different understandings of right and wrong that continue to pull the two major political parties further apart, according to Vanderbilt University political scientist Marc Hetherington.
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Former Tennessee senator and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will give a free, public talk Tuesday, Dec. 1, at Vanderbilt University to mark World AIDS Day.
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With the support of a $2.7 million Recovery Act grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), an interdisciplinary team headed by Vanderbilt chemist John McLean and physicist John Wikswo will attempt to determine whether an individual’s white blood cells retain chemical memories of exposure to drugs like cocaine and alcohol that can be read reliably and unambiguously.
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The novel H1N1 flu virus is a presence on the Vanderbilt campus, as it is on many U.S. university campuses, but it appears to be no more serious than the regular seasonal flu, Vanderbilt’s chief student health official says.
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William Turner, former Obama health care advisor, Betts Chair and Professor of Education and Human Development, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, is among several Vanderbilt professors available to comment on health care reform.
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