Assistant Professor Dr. Anthony Forster chuckles as he admits that from time to time the media has compared his work to that of the fictitious Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

“I have been a dean on this campus since 1972,” said Associate Dean of Students Stephen Caldwell. “Alcohol was a real problem then and it is a real problem today.

Though construction has finally finished on the enormous glass building that towers above 21st Avenue on the south end of Medical Center North, the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (

Dr. Richard Somerville, of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and one of several lead authors of the most recent assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli-mate Change (IPCC), spoke Thursday evening about the modern day threat of global warming, inaugurating Vanderbilt's Nobel Memorial Lecture series.

Amid piles of heaped up stone and dirt, and over the whirring of saws and banging pipes, Diane Seloff, project director of the medical center's new 100 Oaks mall facility, asserts that construction

By Nikita Rodrigues

While walking to class Wednesday afternoon, you may have noticed a large white tent blocking your path from Rand to Stevenson, swarming with people and emitting a boom of music and speeches.

While walking to class Wednesday afternoon you may have noticed a large white tent, swarming with people and emitting the boom of music and speeches, plopped on the lawn in front of the Alexander Hear

Instead of walking through hallways lined with stores like Banana Republic and Old Navy, shoppers at 100 Oaks, Nashville's first indoor mall, can expect to find general pediatrics, the Breast Diagnostic Center and Integrative Health.

What could be better than spending a crisp October afternoon cruising through Nashville on a motorcycle and then jamming out at a concert headed by some of country's most famous stars, including Tim McGraw, Dierks Bentley and John Rich? How about if the event benefited a good cause?