The School of Nursing partnered with the Federal Bureau of Prisons for this unique program of study. Students will serve in an area of need in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for two years. Bill Purcell leaves his position as director of the Center for Child and Family Policy at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies to serve as Nashville's mayor. Meanwhile, Brenda Gilmore, director of Mail Services, is elected to a Metro Council seat in District 1. Peabody College is one of 14 recipients in the nation to win a Department of Education Catalyst Grant.
Catalyst is part of a federal program to connect children with computers and Internet access.
Doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center develop a new device to help people with paralyzed vocal folds breathe on their own and speak normally. The Implantable Pulse Generator, recently implanted in a patient for the first time in the United States, offers a new alternative to a tracheotomy. Stevenson Professor of Chemistry Ned Porter Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak, associate professors of management in marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management, are voted the world's top two Internet scientists by more than 600 U.S. and European scientists and marketing managers. Stevenson Professor of Chemistry Ned Porter receives one of the top honors in chemistry, the Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. The Owen Graduate School of Management is recognized as one of the top M.B.A. schools in the country in addressing environmental issues.