And on page 20, you can see some of the livestock at Peabody's historic Knapp Farm. Reading it reminds me of the thought-provoking political science and communications classes I took at Vanderbilt.”
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We want to put students in the shoes of patients so they can become better doctors.” Reves' primary research interests include efforts to better understand the nature of the risks of cardiac surgery in older patients.
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Vanderbilt Head Men's Basketball Coach Kevin Stallings has been honored by SEC coaches with the Coach of the Year Award, his second during his 11-year tenure with the Commodores. Joseph Gerald (Jerry) Reves, BA'65, will step down this spring as vice president for medical affairs and dean of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
REMARKABLE PEOPLE
I talked a little with UT and some smaller schools," she says of her decision-making process. I would like to do some family counseling or something in that field,” she says of life after Vanderbilt.
Above and Beyond
As with many young people, she was interested in putting a distance between her and her hometown. "My junior year, I thought this was the only place I wouldn't go," she says. My classes are about a five minute walk from my door." She has been teaching gymnastics to preschoolers for summers.
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Where are they now?
Kinsella earned her third honor in the three years she has started for the Commodores. He was named to the Cape Cod All-Star team and received the Wareham Albert Bigelow Award for Most Outstanding Pitcher.
Sports
The midfielder was named second-team All-SEC and led the team in scoring and assists. The Commodores finished fifth at the NCAA South Regional Championships in November, tying the team's best finish in the program's 27-year history.
Roundup
One was to provide graduate education for Southern teachers, and the other was to improve life in the rural South. This was already happening in the south, mainly thanks to the work of sailor A.
The School of Country Life
In the early years, it awaited anticipated funds from the Knapp Memorial Corporations to finance a building in the countryside. Lacking a building in the country, Peabody placed most emphasis on his Knapp demonstration farm.
In Business, Poaching Allowed
Physicists Measure Material Hotter
Increased knowledge about the nature of the QGP could also improve cosmologists' understanding of the origins of the universe. Here they hope to study the behavior of the quark-gluon plasma at even more extreme temperatures.
Sexual Parasite Sheds Light on
This new genetic information allowed Bordenstein to identify one of the key tools in the bacterium's bag of tricks. This hijacking of the immune system allows the bacteria to invade their hosts' bodies with relative impunity, he suggests.
Collaboration Advances Sepsis
Although the bacterium's parasitism is limited to arthropods – animals with an exoskeleton instead of a backbone – its spread has a major impact on the biosphere. The first part of the project involved the development of an automated early detection system that can alert doctors that a patient may develop sepsis.
A Gift from the Sea
If we see low blood pressure, we think of one set of treatments. If we see the two together, then we're considering a third set of possible actions we can take."
World Peace
I don't think of 'high' or 'low' culture in hierarchical terms," says Lovensheimer, who is assistant professor of music history and literature. There's always a meaning to what he says,” says Cynthia Cyrus, Blair School of Music Associate Professor of Musicology and Associate Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies.
Vox Populi
Look at a modern-day musical like Legally Blonde," he continues. "No one would take it seriously, and yet it's a very problematic piece in the way it deals with gender issues, gays and lesbians. It's very much a product of its time and there's a lot to take from its look."
36 Flavors of Greek
Merging Greek and Residential Life Although some Greek life supporters feared that The Commons—the freshman housing system that opened last year on the Peabody campus—would cause a decline in Greek membership, that has not happened, e.g. Torrey and Wcislo. This year, three fraternities and no sororities were put on probation. "The culture really changed," says former IFC president Kirby.
We used to say Vanderbilt was a ‘work hard, play hard’
We recognized that we needed to address the systemic elements behind the disciplinary issues, or have them addressed for us,” said VSG President Wyatt Smith, head of the task force. The Greek community has always been, and will continue to be, an integral part of the undergraduate experience at Vanderbilt."
Shelton, a junior from Springfield, Illinois, participated in Vandy-in-Hollywood, an internship program created by Chad Gervich, BA'96, to give Vanderbilt students aspiring to careers in entertainment a career advantage. competition.
The Back Story
Scene One
His network of friends and colleagues in the business is now large, but it was years in the making. In 2006, Gervich returned to campus to launch the Vandy-in-Hollywood program and to conduct a workshop for Sam Girgus, professor of English and the self-proclaimed “godfather of everything we do in film here at Vanderbilt. "
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Just wanting to work in Hollywood isn't enough to land one of these coveted spots. The best candidates are able to articulate exactly what type of career in the entertainment field they want—or at least think they want.
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We're trying to help people crack that world because it's so hard to get into. We look for commitment, passion, a willingness to work long hours and an excitement about that world,” said Tiffany Franklin, assistant director of the Vanderbilt Career Center.
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It's very fortunate for me, someone who wants to write professionally, to be in a place where I actually work with writers and read scripts,” says Miller. It's a time-honored tradition, simply because the only way to really learn about the TV business is to experience it.”
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Be aware that you are working long hours with people who have seen many interns, and they will see others again. If you do, they'll remember you when you get back out there looking for work.
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FLOOD TIDE
It represents the largest change in the average weight of American children—an alarming and historic change. An incredible 36.5 percent of children aged 10 to 17 are overweight or obese; in some counties, it is more than 50 percent.
Failing Grades in Fitness
In Tennessee, it is estimated that more than two-thirds of adults are overweight, and more than 30 percent of them are obese. Only 18 percent of children statewide get enough fruits and vegetables in their daily diet.
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
It's easy to see why Plemmons, who is director of the Pediatric Weight Management Clinic at the Monroe Carell Jr. Four years later, scientists from the National Institutes of Health warned that, for the first time, life expectancy in the United States will.
Nationally, success rates for weight-loss
The average size of an American child has changed so much over the past two decades that in 2000 the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) re-introduced growth charts to include body mass index so health providers could better detect obesity in young children.
Even at Vanderbilt, where rates are higher,
In addition to the multidisciplinary weight management clinic at the children's hospital, there is an initiative led by Dr. Go for the Red, White and Blue,” led by Vanderbilt Children’s Health Improvement and Prevention.
More Scientific Evidence Needed
The work was funded by the State of Tennessee and the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. About six documents are now in the works containing testimony from the project and The Nashville Collaborative.
The Goal: A Comprehensive National Center
The goal is not just to stop obesity in children, but to reverse it,” says Barkin, who is also a professor of pediatrics and the Marion Wright Edelman Chair of Pediatrics. Roger Cone, professor and chair of molecular physiology and biophysics and medical director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Obe-.
The goal is not just to stop childhood obesity, but to turn
During the last month of summer vacation, it's time for families to make plans to keep that extra activity on the calendar. When families are busy during the school year, it's easy to come back together in front of the TV for the only family time of the day,” says Plemmons.
Preventing Obesity Year-Round: A Summertime Activity Plan
Ian is right on top of this ever-rising wave, sitting firmly on the right side of the widening bell curve. A 2009 survey of his colleagues by The Hillnewspaper identified him as one of the most partisan members of the Senate.
A smart plan for these challenging times…
Still, as part of the Republican leadership at a time when partisanship is roiling the nation's capital, Alexander has a fine line to walk. Carbon emissions, now part of the contentious cap-and-trade debate, were left out of the bill, though they had been included in earlier versions.
Visual Art
In August it will travel to Clarksville, Tennessee, and then to the River Discovery Center in Paducah. It made me realize that everything I had learned on the river was of little use on the ocean,” says Guider.
Music
Guider's new project is to photograph his navigation of “the Great Loop” over the next five or six years. Gates of Silence is a set of three compositions: “Lament: The Fallen City” for violin and piano; “The journey without her”.
Books and Writers
Inspired by Virgil's Aeneid, each composition is connected by themes of loss, renewal, hope and continuation. The trio commissioned Gates of Silence as part of the ongoing commissioning project “The Blair Commissions: Music for the 21st Century,” funded by the James Stephen Turner Family Charitable Foundation for the Blair School.
Recent Books
The J e a n a l e x a n d e r Heard Library commemorates one of America's most beloved writers with the exhibit “Mark Twain: The American Original,” on view in Special Collections through June 30. The exhibit also includes memorabilia from Mark Twain's childhood home and museum in Hannibal, Missouri, and items from special collections at San Diego State University.
Accolades
“Vanderbilt is fortunate to have a strong collection of Twain materials – both first editions and originals – to share with the community.” Dowell led the charge to collaborate with the California University and Youth Center to expand the variety of artifacts visitors could see.
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Now he'd just rather watch someone else do it - so many times that he's become a sort of human IMDB. The best thing about studying in an MFA program isn't that all the other students are the coolest kids in the neighborhood—but that all the professors are, too.
A Wrinkle in Time
Our missionaries came to the guest house to check on us and told us that their apartment was badly damaged. We were promised a flight early the next day to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where we were supposed to exchange our plane tickets for the flight back to Nashville.
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The President’s Corner
We have a wonderful turnout for all of our community service events,” says Sarah Watson, BA'05, chair of community service for the Atlanta Chapter. Komen Race for the Cure, and the San Antonio Chapter worked to renovate a community garden.
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Last October, alumni members of the Vanderbilt Atlanta Chapter were presented with a President's Volunteer Service Award recognizing the group's nearly 400 hours of service to the Atlanta Community Food Bank during the previous year. V a n d e r b i l t M a g a z i n e 67 Bill Bolling, executive director of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, presents the President's Volunteer Service Award to Cindy Carson, BS'02, co-president of the Vanderbilt Atlanta chapter (left); Sarah Watson, BA'05, community service division chair; and Meghan Pietrantonio, BA'05, chapter co-president.
Other community organizations that have recently benefited from the Atlanta chapter's volunteer efforts include the Georgia Special Olympics, Ronald McDonald House Charities, a local shelter that helps homeless families become self-sufficient, and a rehabilitation The President's Council on Service and Civic Participation honors Americans who, for example, inspire others to engage in volunteer service.
REUNION
The Chancellor's Medal created Nichols' Nichols Humanitarian Fund, which encourages Vanderbilt students to become better global citizens and to expand their thinking by volunteering for humanitarian efforts. Janice traveled to Melbourne, Australia, in the summer of 2008 to be part of the Vanderbilt Initiative for Scholarship and Global Engagement (VISAGE) program and participated in service activities hand-in-hand with some of the fund recipients.
Wattles Fellowship
Since 2006, Vanderbilt has presented the Nichols-Chancellor's Medal each May during Senior Day, a day of activities for graduating seniors and their families held the day before commencement. Since 2006, the Nichols Humanitarian Fund has awarded awards to more than 50 students to help cover their education, living and travel expenses.
Launched Promising Careers
These students have served in communities around the world, including Australia, Costa Rica, India, Nicaragua and South Africa. In the summer of 2006, the Nicholses traveled to Kampala, Uganda, to see the work some student recipients were doing. "These students worked tirelessly in hospitals, hospices and orphanages and showed great compassion towards community members," says Ed. "We were able to witness the courage and determination of children and families left behind in cities ravaged by deaths from AIDS.
Citizens of the World
Support from the fund is mainly focused on summer projects or those that take place during specific academic breaks. Due to changes in UK visa laws, the Wattles program was unable to send fellows to London for 2009–10, but its overseers hope to resume the program soon.
Scholarship Honors College Friendship
Question Everything, and Pass It On
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The Greatest Fight
Sweet Rewards
Early to Rise
In the 50s, mothers wore aprons in the kitchen while fathers dressed, had breakfast and coffee, and left in the family's one car to work in the world outside the neighborhood. Plain Ouma, my paternal grandmother, had a way with hot fudge sauce, which was always in the blue jar when we visited.
Look for Us in the Kitchen
On my father's side of the family, Grandma Crawford made sweet wine from muscat grapes and stored it in bars down in her Tennessee cellar. My sister and I drank so much chocolate milk that the unflavored version was referred to as "white milk." At the time, there was only whole milk; my grandmother referred to it as.
