Six teams of MBA students from top business schools have been named as finalists in the Vanderbilt MBA eStrategy Contest to be held at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University next month.
Vanderbilt faculty representing the Law School, the Owen Graduate School of Management and the Divinity School will address the subject of corporate responsibility in a panel discussion on Feb. 3.
It's a business where the cry of "strike" is as devastating to the game itself as to the player swinging the bat. The economic concerns of major league baseball--from labor-management relations and legal issues to competitive balance and contraction--will be the focus of a one-day conference at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt faculty are available to offer commentary and insight into what effect the prospect of war--and outbreak, should it happen--will have on the U.S. economy.
More and more tearful goodbyes are happening across the country between American children and parents who are being deployed because of impending war. However, children of the American military fare surprisingly well when Mom or Dad is halfway around the world.
Despite the considerable effort that leaders in the field of clinical psychology have taken to make the diagnosis of mental disorders an "objective" process, the theoretical beliefs of clinicians still appear to play a major role in the process.
A Vanderbilt roboticist and psychologist, who have teamed up to create a kind of robot Friday, a personal assistant who can accurately sense the moods of its human bosses and respond appropriately, report the results of an experiment that validates their basic approach.
If David Weintraub and Jeff Bary are right, there may be a lot more planets circling stars like the sun than current models of star and planet formation predict. The Vanderbilt astronomers have new evidence that sun-like T Tauri stars may retain their protoplanetary disks, even when they are not visible from Earth.
A multi-university research team has taken a significant step toward answering the question of what makes biological clocks tick. They report having successfully determined the structure of a biological clock protein for the first time.
A comprehensive Vanderbilt University study in the wake of the breaking Enron scandal puts a $37.1 million pricetag on the loss of consumer confidence in companies audited by Arthur Andersen, tied directly to their choice of auditors.
A team of researchers have identified the genes that code for a special class of proteins that plays a critical role in almost every aspect of the life cycle of the malaria mosquito, including its ability to see, taste, touch and smell.
In what may seem an ironic twist, President Bush must win the support of America's foreign allies for attacking Iraq if he is to be successful at home, according to a Vanderbilt history professor.
Translation of recently unearthed hieroglyphic stairs on an ancient Maya pyramid in Guatemala provides dramatic evidence that two great Maya city-states and their allies were locked in a brutal superpower struggle that may have set the stage for the later collapse of the classic Maya civilization.
Students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. elected its first Arab-American Muslim as Student Government Association (SGA) president this year. Samar Ali spoke at Vanderbilt's "Come Together" ceremony two days after Sept. 11, and she was elected SGA president a few months later.
Biologists at Vanderbilt and the University of Missouri have uncovered what could be a major clue into the mysterious molecular processes that direct cells to the correct locations within a developing embryo.
On Aug. 17, organizers from Chicago, Atlanta, New York and other major cities across the country hope to attract millions of people to a protest march on the U.S. Capitol, 'built with slave labor". With the theme "You Owe Us," the event hopes to build momentum for paying reparations to the descendants of slaves in America.
Advances in micro-electromechanical systems and distributed computing finally make it possible to scale-up "smart structures" to large sizes, a Vanderbilt engineer reports at an Acoustical Society of America meeting and supports his contention with a detailed simulation of a scalable "smart" noise reduction system design.
A mathematician at Vanderbilt and an expert in infectious diseases at the New York University School of Medicine have teamed up to produce a mathematical model of how anthrax can be spread through the mail.
The ability to recognize objects in the real world is handled by different parts of the brain than those that allow us to imagine what the world is like.
eLab, the nation's first academic research center dedicated to the study of e-business, has been named the No. 1 e-commerce research center in the world by Google, the largest search engine on the World Wide Web.
Four award-winning authors will be featured at Vanderbilt's spring writers symposium titled "Our Favorite Year: A Celebration of Nashville Writers." John Egerton, Ann Patchett, Alice Randall and Diann Blakely will read excerpts from their books and entertain questions from the audience.
Vanderbilt scientists have created a new strain of mouse that exhibits cardiac hypertrophy -- an enlargement of the heart similar to that which causes heart failure in millions of Americans each year -- and may help explain why men are subject to this fatal condition while women are spared until menopause.
Synesthesia appears to be a natural form of virtual reality. For nearly 300 years, people who claimed to hear colors, feel sounds or taste shapes risked being dismissed as having overactive imaginations. Last year, however, several scientific studies of this rare condition produced compelling evidence that it is a genuine perceptual phenomenon.
Significant social, moral and pragmatic issues have been raised by President Bush's faith-based and community initiatives. The initiative could drastically alter the way a wide range of social services is provided to people across the United States.
Six teams of MBA students from top business schools competed last weekend in the third annual Owen@Vanderbilt eStrategy Contest at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Students from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business took home the $25,000 prize from the contest, the largest case competition of its kind.
A new study is one of the first to associate individual differences in emotional behavior with activity in a specific brain region.
Six teams of MBA students from top business schools have been named as finalists in the Owen@Vanderbilt eStrategy Contest, to be held at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University next month. The contest is the largest case competition of its kind, awarding the winning team a check for $25,000.
The Enron collapse shows that the audit profession must improve the way it self-regulates in order to avoid governmental intervention, an action that would be undesirable, according to Vanderbilt University's associate professor of accounting at the Owen Graduate School of Management.
Digital music may be clearer, digital pictures may be sharper and MRI scans more precise in the near future due to a new mathematical theory developed by mathematicians.
Internationl education policy expert offers practical steps to ensure national security can coexist with $11 billion business of educating foreign nationals.
Critical new data on a complex enzyme that lies at the crossroad between cell suicide and tumor suppression has opened a promising new front in the battle to find effective treatments for stroke and cancer.
Individuals who have been blind from birth use different parts of their brain when they read Braille than do those who lost their sight later in life -- a difference that sheds new light on the relationship between thought and language.
The mosquito may be nature's most effective bioterrorist, accounting for millions of deaths each year. But the end of its eons' long reign of terror may be in sight. Scientists have begun to apply the power of genomics and molecular biology to understand how the mosquito detects the subtle chemical cues that lead it to its targets.
The heroic efforts of intended victims and would-be onlookers to oppose the Nazis' attempted genocide of the Jews will be examined through film, song and discussion during the 2001 Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt Oct. 25-Nov. 10.
A team of epidemiologists is launching a study of 105,000 people in the Southeast to determine why African-Americans develop and die from cancer more often than other groups. It is the first population-based study to target African-Americans.
A new test that measures what people see when viewing discordant images in the right and left eyes has produced important new clues about the location of some of the brain activity underlying visual consciousness.
A new anthropological study finds that cannibalism was not always aggressive and barbaric, but, in at least one case, was done with the best of motives.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have applied a new statistical approach that makes it possible to identify multiple gene interactions to link four DNA variations in three genes with increased risk of sporadic breast cancers.
Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee dedicated the Frances Williams Preston Laboratory in honor of the music industry leader's support of cancer research and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has received a $13.7M grant that establishes a Specialized Program Of Research Excellence in Lung Cancer, one of only six in the country and the only one in the southeast.
Chancellor Gordon Gee will give his first Commencement speech to approximately 2,200 students at Vanderbilt University's graduation exercises Friday, May 11.
Studies of the brains of some of the strangest-looking mammals alive--the star-nosed mole and the naked rat mole--provide new insights into the sense of touch.
Latest studies of the closest star nursery--the Orion nebula--have discovered a planet stopper: Its young, bright stars produce ultraviolet radiation so powerful that it should blast away the dust and gas surrounding newly formed stars before planets can form.
Timothy Fisher is taking a Tiffany's approach to converting sunlight into electricity. He is exploring the use of polycrystalline diamond as a replacement for the silicon solar cells currently used in many space applications.
NCI has awarded $7.5 million to an innovative partnership between Meharry Medical College and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The goal is to close the gap between blacks and whites in cancer incidence and deaths.
A star survey by an international team of astronomers has concluded that part of the dark matter that forms an invisible halo around the Milky Way galaxy is made up of something very prosaic: dead stars, dim celestial objects called cool white dwarfs. (Science, 3-23-01)
Now there's no place for corrosion to hide. Physicists at Vanderbilt University have developed a new remote sensing technique that can detect corrosion hidden deep within metal joints where conventional electrochemical-detection methods fail.
What has happened to our understanding of the universe in the 20 years since Carl Sagan produced the successful television series Cosmos? That is the subtext of a major physics conference sponsored by Vanderbilt and being held in Nashville March 5 to 10, 2001.
While grandma and grandpa may be attending Rigoletto or enjoying the music of Duke Ellington, their children and grandchildren likely are not, a recent study by Vanderbilt University researchers indicates.
Twenty years after finding that gifted boys are better at math reasoning than gifted girls, a follow-up study of these same gifted and talented students - now in their 30s - indicates these earlier differences continue to influence their education and career choices. (Psychological Science, 11-00)
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