This section features Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students who have appeared on Capitol Hill.

SCOTT NIEZGODA
Graduate Student
SANDRA ROSENTHAL
Jack & Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry
REP. PHIL ROE, R-Tenn.
U.S. House of Representatives
CHRISTINA WEST
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Federal Relations
Coalition for National Science Funding's Exhibition: "STEM Research and Education:
Underpinning American Innovation"
Date: May 11, 2011
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CAMILLA BENBOW
Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean
Peabody College of Education and Human Development
Hearing: "ESEA Reauthorization: Teachers and Leaders"
Committee: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
Date: April 15, 2010
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KEIVAN STASSUN
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Co-Director, Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program
Hearing: “Broadening Participation in STEM”
Committee: House Committee on Science and Technology
Date: March 16, 2010
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DOUGLAS SCHMIDT
Professor of Computer Science
Associate Chair of Computer Science and Engineering
Coalition for National Security Research Briefing: “Defense Basic Research: Critical to National Security and Economic Security"
Date: Jan. 19, 2010
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JAMES FRASER
Associate Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development
Hearing: “Academic Perspectives on the Future of Public Housing”
Committee: House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
Date: July 29, 2009
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LUKE FROEB
William C. and Margaret W. Oehmig Associate Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management
Hearing: “Competition in the Ticketing and Promotion Industry”
Committee: House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy
Date: Feb. 26, 2009
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TRACY SHARPLEY-WHITING
Director of African American and Diaspora Studies
Hearing: “From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images”
Committee: House Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection
Date: Sept. 25, 2007
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GARY GERSTLE
James Stahlman Professor of History
Hearing: “Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Becoming Americans - U.S. Immigrant Integration”
Committee: House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law
Date: May 16, 2007
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CAROL SWAIN
Professor of Political Science and Law
Hearing: "Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act: Policy Perspectives
and Views from the Field"
Committee: Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights
and Property Rights
Date: June 21, 2006
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ELLEN GOLDRING
Professor of Education Policy and Leadership
Hearing: “Pell Grants for Kids: It Worked for Colleges. Why Not K-12?”
Committee: Senate Committee on Heath, Education, Labor and Pensions, Subcommittee
on Children and Families
Date: July 15, 2004
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KENNETH GALLOWAY
Dean of the School of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Hearing: Defense Research
Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense
Date: May 5, 2004
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DAVID WILLIAMS
Vice Chancellor for University Affairs
General Counsel & Secretary of the University
Hearing: “College Recruiting: Are Student Athletes Being Protected?”
Committee: House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade,
and Consumer Protection
Date: March 11, 2004
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INDIA MCKINNEY
Vanderbilt Student – Class of 2004
Hearing: “A Year-Round College Calendar: Advantages and Impediments”
Committee: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Subcommittee
on Children and Families
Date: March 9, 2004
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Peabody Dean Camilla Benbow with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
April 15, 2010 |

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
Feb. 12, 2009 |

Chancellor S. Nicholas Zeppos with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
Feb. 12, 2009
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Doug Christiansen, vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
Feb. 13, 2007
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