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 Vol. 1, No. 7 * December 2001 Table  of Contents Alumni  News Campus News Vanderbilt in the News Research at Vanderbilt  Sports News Alumni Club Happenings  Alumni  News What's  in a Name? The Office of Alumni Programs has a new name and a new location. Now called  Alumni Relations, our office has moved from Alumni Hall to the 10th floor  of the Baker Building on 21st Avenue South. Our new name better describes  the broad range of programs and services provided by the staff and volunteers.  These services range from student recruitment and alumni club events to  online services and Alumni Travel programs. Please visit us in person  or click here  for our Web  page.  Expand Your  Horizons  It's time to make your travel plans for 2002. Alumni Association tours  are filling up fast, so don't wait to sign up for one of these trips.  Destinations include a journey through China and down the Yangtze River;  a visit to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands; a trip through Cuba;  and a Mississippi River boat cruise. All trips feature a Vanderbilt professor  who will share a unique perspective and knowledge of the region with members  of the tour.  Hot Off the Press Vanderbilt's first Alumni Guide has hit the mail and should be  in your living room now. Packaged together with the latest issue of Vanderbilt  Magazine, the comprehensive guide is loaded with useful phone numbers,  answers to frequently asked questions, and other relevant information  about campus happenings. You can also find information about alumni events,  services and programs, by visiting http://sdm0.com/index.cfm?n=35&s=304&c=152057&t=138&e=1874045&o=466 Attention Young Alumni If you are a graduate of the classes of 1998, 1999, 2000 or 2001, please  fill out and submit the annual Young Alumni Survey recently mailed to  you. The information will be valuable in planning young alumni events,  updating your contact information, and assessing the programs offered  to young alums. Filling out the survey will also allow you to be included  in this year's Black & Gold Pages-Your Class News. If  you didn't receive a survey, click  here  to fill one out. The deadline to submit your survey is coming  soon, so don't delay.  VU Alum  Named One of Top Artists Defining the Visual Arts  Vanderbilt graduate Mel Chin was selected by PBS as one of 21 artists  who are defining the visual arts for a new millennium. Chin and the other  20 artists discussed their lives, their work and their visions in Art:21-Art  in the Twenty-First Century, a four-part series that premiered in  September on PBS.   Board  of Trust Chair Writes Biography About Late Husband, Bronson Ingram  NASHVILLE BUSINESS JOURNAL--Martha Rivers Ingram has written a biography  about her late husband, Bronson Ingram, titled E. Bronson Ingram: Complete  These Unfinished Tasks of Mine. The 320-page book presents a behind-the-scenes  look at a man who was renowned for his multiple business interests and  philanthropic involvement. Martha Ingram became the chairman of Ingram  Industries, her husband's company, five days after he died in 1995. The  company is now an $11 billion distribution conglomerate, and Martha Ingram  is well-known as one of the top female executives in the nation. She is  also chair of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust.  Vanderbilt Alumna Writes Book About FBI Spy Vanderbilt graduate Elaine Shannon, BA'68, covers the Justice Department  and the FBI for Time magazine and specializes in writing about  terrorism. Little Brown will publish her third book in January-The  Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen,  the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History. Shannon is a correspondent  with Time magazine's Washington bureau.  Vanderbilt Crew Forms Local Alumni Club Aboard USS Porter Three Vanderbilt alumni-Lt. Cmdr. Roger Camp, BS'90, Lt. j.g. Lauren  Brick, BS'99, and Ensign Katie Dudash, BS'00, recently completed a six-month  Mediterranean cruise as sailors onboard the USS Porter. The Porter is  one of the Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers.  These destroyers have a wardroom complement of 22-24 officers; so three  officers from Vanderbilt practically constituted a local alumni club.  Alumna  Works With Burn Victims of World Trade Center Attacks Vanderbilt alumna Hayes Vargo, BA'96, went on to earn a BSN in nursing  from Columbia University, and now works as a staff nurse in the William  Randolph Hearst Burn Center located at New York Presbyterian's Cornell  Medical Center. She was there on Sept. 11 and has spent the days since  working with the burn victims from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks.  Campus  News Vanderbilt  Funds Bridge Across 21st Avenue South  NASHVILLE BUSINESS JOURNAL--The Metropolitan Planning Commission has approved  a $2 million campus footbridge that will span 21st Avenue South and connect  the Peabody campus to the Vanderbilt historic campus near the Central  Library. Plans call for the pedestrian bridge to cross the heavily congested  road near the Edgehill intersection, with endpoints near Magnolia Circle  on the Peabody side and Godchaux Hall on the other.  Vanderbilt  Community Office Helps Students Be Good Neighbors  THE TENNESSEAN--Mary Pat Teague says things are not perfect between Vanderbilt  University students who live off campus and their neighbors, but she's  trying to change that. Teague is the assistant director of the Office  of Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations at Vanderbilt. The  results of the office's work are apparent, Teague said. Last academic  year, she received 22 complaints from neighbors, most of them about noisy  parties. This year, Teague said, she's had to intervene only six times.  Owen  School, Law School Establish New Program THE TENNESSEAN--To the students, it's a way to get a taste of  how lawyers and executives think and work-before the two groups are  thrown together on the job. At Vanderbilt University's new law and business  program, MBA and law students come together in special courses focusing  on transactions. Law students earn a law degree with a certificate of  specialization in law and business. Business students graduate with an  MBA degree and a concentration in law and business.   Vanderbilt  Student-Conducted Poll: Nashvillians Favor Scrutiny of People from Middle  East  THE TENNESSEAN--Most Nashvillians say it's OK to single out people of  Middle Eastern descent for special law enforcement checks, according to  a poll released recently by Vanderbilt University. The poll indicated  that more African-Americans than others supported the extra security checks  for people who are-or appear to be-Middle Eastern. Seventy-four  percent of African-Americans said they support such special scrutiny vs.  64 percent of white and other residents.   VUMC  Board Votes to Build Outpatient Tower Next to Children's Hospital  THE TENNESSEAN--The Vanderbilt University Medical Center Board has approved  an 11-story pediatric outpatient tower to be built next to the Monroe  Carell Jr. Children's Hospital now under construction on the campus. If  the university's Board of Trust approves the plan, work will begin right  away on the 169,000-square-foot tower. It would almost triple the amount  of outpatient clinic space and consolidate services that are now spread  over five buildings.  Vanderbilt  in the News Vanderbilt  Generates Lots of Jobs in Middle Tennessee NASHVILLE BUSINESS JOURNAL--According to federal statistics, research  and development activities at Vanderbilt University generated more than  5,000 jobs in Middle Tennessee on and off campus. Those jobs are among  the nearly 1 million created by research and development activities at  colleges and universities throughout the United States.  Owen  Recognized as One of Most Tech-Savvy Business Schools  NASHVILLE BUSINESS JOURNAL--Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School  of Management has been recognized as one of the most tech-savvy business  schools in the nation by Business 2.0 magazine. For its eLab and  tech offerings in other areas of study, the Owen School joined 19 others  across the nation on the magazine's list.   Research  at Vanderbilt VUMC  Plans to Build Facility to Care for People With Diabetes   THE TENNESSEAN--Vanderbilt University Medical Center plans to build a  multimillion-dollar, one-of-a-kind facility devoted exclusively to the  care of people with diabetes and research into the disease. The plans  for the new comprehensive-care center, set to open in the next few years,  were formally unveiled recently at a dinner that capped a daylong symposium.    Mosquito  May Be Nature's Most Effective Bioterrorist  Laurence Zwiebel calls the mosquito "the ultimate bioterrorist."  He should know. The assistant professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt  University has contracted malaria many times while studying the bugs throughout  the Third World. Recently, however, Zwiebel and colleagues reported a  genetic breakthrough that might tip the scale of the people-versus-mosquito  battle decidedly into the human camp.  The  Road to Greener Cities  Communication of Science, Engineering and Technology intern Nana Koram  describes the process of developing more efficient fuel cells as replacements  for the internal combustion engine based on her experience working in  the laboratory of chemistry professor Charles Lukehart.  Differences  in Brain Usage Among Braille Readers Shed New Light on the Relationship  Between Thought and Language  Individuals who have been blind from birth use different parts of their  brain when reading Braille than those who lost their sight early in life-a  difference that sheds new light on the relationship between thought and  language.  VU Creates Innovative Engineering and Multidisciplinary Program NASHVILLE BUSINESS JOURNAL--The National Science Foundation has granted  $2.7 million to Vanderbilt to teach engineers to design safer and more  reliable aircraft, automobiles and buildings-just about anything  that requires a complex engineering system. Using the Science Foundation  cash, the university will create the Multidisciplinary Training in Reliability  and Risk Engineering and Management Program.  Sports  News Vanderbilt  Athletics Official Home Page For the latest on Vanderbilt  athletics, including news about the men's and women's teams, visit the  official Vanderbilt Website at: http://sdm0.com/index.cfm?n=35&s=304&c=152057&t=138&e=1874045&o=462  Vanderbilt  Women's Basketball Coach is "Philly Guy"    THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER--Fourth-ranked Vanderbilt visited Temple recently  to complete a homecoming weekend for Commodore women's basketball coach  Jim Foster. He has never stopped being a "Philly guy" since  leaving as coach of St. Joseph's in 1991 for Nashville and the Southeastern  Conference. He is a 1980 graduate of Temple and also served in the late  1970s as head coach of the Bishop McDevitt High girls' team, where he  persuaded his friend Geno Auriemma-now the women's coach at No. 1-ranked  Connecticut-to join him on the bench with the Lancers.   Alumni  Club Happenings  For  upcoming alumni club events in your area, click on the headline above  Nashville Young Alums Gather for Po' Boys and Hush Puppies On Thursday, Nov. 29, members of the Nashville Vanderbilt Club "GOLD"  (Graduates Of the Last Decade) gathered for a fun-filled night at the  South Street restaurant. The crowd enjoyed food, drink and beach ambiance.  Louisville, Tampa, and Dallas Happy Hours Alumni in Louisville got together at Brasserie Deitrich on Oct.  25; the Tampa Vanderbilt Club gathered with the University of Florida-Tampa  Gator Club at Pop City on Nov. 1; and the Dallas Vanderbilt Club  joined the SMU Young Alumni Club at Sambucca Jazz Caf? on Nov.14.  American Icon Rockwell Highlighted in the Big Apple The New York Vanderbilt Club paid tribute to Norman Rockwell on Nov. 17,  when more than 70 alumni and guests gathered for a breakfast reception  at the Stanhope Park Hyatt. The breakfast was followed by a lecture and  slide presentation on Norman Rockwell by Amy Kirschke, assistant professor  of fine arts at Vanderbilt. After the lecture, the group walked to the  Guggenheim Museum to view the exhibit, Norman Rockwell: Pictures for  the American People, the most comprehensive collection of Rockwell's  art ever organized.  Windy City Art Event The Chicago Vanderbilt Club hosted one of their most successful events  this fall on Nov. 10 in conjunction with the Van Gogh and Gauguin:  The Studio of the South exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before  touring the exhibit, the group gathered for breakfast and a lecture at  the Hilton Chicago and Towers. The featured professor was Vivien Fryd,  associate professor of art history and American and Southern Studies.  .commodore  e-news is published monthly by the Division of Institutional Planning  and Advancement, Vanderbilt University, from editorial and business offices  at the Baker Building, Suite 1000, 110 21st Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37203.  Phone: 615-322-2601. Fax: 615-343-8547. E-mail: Lew.Harris@vanderbilt.edu .  Editor: Lew Harris, BA'68. Co-editor: Joanne Beckham, BA'62.  Design/development: Arlene Samowich. Production: Samantha Fortner. 	


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