Alumni
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Nashville’s ‘Negotiators’: How Samar Ali Gets Enemies In Syria To Sit Down And Talk
Nashville’s ‘Negotiators’: How Samar Ali Gets Enemies In Syria To Sit Down And Talk Samar Ali, BS’03, JD’06, a former Alumni Association Board member and an attorney for Nashville law firm Bone McAllester Norton, is a third-party mediator in Syria. WPLN recently interviewed her as part of its live journalism… Read MoreJan 4, 2016
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Jack Rutledge builds career with talent for music and business
Learn how Jack Rutledge, BMus’03, MBA’09, turned his talent for music and business to become head of catalog and selection for Amazon Music. Learn how he blended his music and business acumen into a successful career. Read MoreDec 15, 2015
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Working for Play: Erin Sullivan, MBA’04
Would working at a toy company really be all fun and games? Erin Sullivan can tell you. She has worked at Mattel since landing a marketing internship while a student at Owen. Now senior director for Fisher-Price marketing, she has handled virtually every Mattel brand, except dolls, in her 11… Read MoreDec 15, 2015
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Ann Marie and Greg Brink’s personal partnership inspires their investment in nonprofit management
Greg Brink, EMBA’03, is a senior risk manager at Fannie Mae and has spent his career working with commercial mortgages. His wife, Ann Marie, is a professional musician who is the associate principal violist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. They met at a patrons’ event for the orchestra in Dallas. Read MoreDec 15, 2015
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Heiki Miki, Vanderbilt’s Man in Japan
Heiki Miki, MBA’96, travels the globe as Shinagawa Refractories’ executive officer and general manager of overseas business for Americas, Europe/Middle East and Oceania—and as one of Vanderbilt’s most visible and appreciated international supporters. The 2015 Owen Distinguished Alumni Award recipient formed the Vanderbilt Japan Chapter in 2015 and is taking… Read MoreDec 15, 2015
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Maria Renz, MBA’96, discusses women and technology with Dean Eric Johnson
Maria Renz, MBA’96, technical adviser to the CEO of Amazon.com, recently returned to Nashville to attend an Owen Alumni Board meeting. During her visit she also spoke during an Opening Bell event and sat down with Dean Johnson for a video interview that covers leadership, career and how technology is… Read MoreDec 15, 2015
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From ‘Vanderbilt Magazine’: Megan Barry takes reins as Nashville’s first woman mayor
"Vanderbilt Magazine" sat down with new Nashville mayor Megan Barry, MBA'93, to talk about the election process, her connection with Vanderbilt, and what she hopes to accomplish. Read MoreDec 8, 2015
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Grand Ole Opry Chief Steve Buchanan on Prepping the Landmark’s 90th Anniversary and Producing ‘Nashville’
Steve Buchanan, BS’80, MBA’85, arrived on Vanderbilt’s campus in 1975 with plans to become an environmental engineer. His experience on the university’s concert committee opened his eyes to a career in the country music industry. Billboard.com profiles Buchanan’s executive producer role on the television show Nashville and his work to… Read MoreNov 30, 2015
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Engineering alumnus among youngest African American tenured professors in computer science
James Hill, MS’06, PhD’09, an associate professor of computer and information science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has become one of the youngest African Americans to become a tenured professor in computer science at a research university in the United States. Read MoreNov 30, 2015
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Engineering alumnus turned brewer says background comes in handy for beer biz
Justin Cox, BE’04, faced a conundrum four years ago – keep working at a steady, prestigious job with the federal government or turn his home brewing passion into a business. The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering alumnus decided he wanted no regrets as an old man and chose the latter. Read MoreNov 30, 2015
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Q&A: Vanderbilt alum, Twitter video platform designer shares advice on career
If you have ever posted or watched a video on Twitter, then you have witnessed the work of Can Envarli, BS’05. Read MoreNov 30, 2015
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Alumni lecture caps Engineering Day slate of learning and fun
A pair of lectures featuring Morris Morgan III and Carolyn Morgan, Vanderbilt Class of 1969 graduates and now both professors at Hampton University, highlighted a full slate of Engineering Day activities Nov. 5 at Vanderbilt. Read MoreNov 6, 2015
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Fred Thompson dies at age 73
Fred Thompson, who began an illustrious legal and political career after graduating from Vanderbilt Law School in 1967, died Nov. 1. He was 73. Read MoreNov 2, 2015
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Special Delivery: VUMC Partners with Cara Osborne’s, MSN’01, Baby+Company to Open Nashville Birth Center
Pregnancy doesn’t necessarily require hospital care. That simple premise is what led Cara Osborne, MSN’01, to co-author a landmark study demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of giving birth outside a traditional medical setting. It’s also an idea that she’s put into practice as the founder of Baby+Company, a group of… Read MoreOct 30, 2015
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Vandy Goes Pro: Impressive Numbers of Commodores Are Playing on Professional Teams
In recent years there has been a noticeable trend in Vanderbilt student-athletes making it to the pros. The Fall 2015 issue of Vanderbilt Magazine highlights these athletes—that have gone pro in seven different sports—and the impact their success has on Vanderbilt athletics. Read MoreOct 30, 2015
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Rocky Mountain Hi-Tech
Just south of Denver, the vision for a futuristic development is coming to reality. The new community is called Sterling Ranch and Brock Smethills, BE’13, is the chief operating officer. In the next 20 years, the five-square-mile, $4.3 billion planned community will take shape as a futuristic city—and Vanderbilt students… Read MoreOct 30, 2015
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John Jay Hooker event at Vanderbilt Law School postponed
An event at Vanderbilt Law School featuring John Jay Hooker scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 27, has been postponed. A new date has not been set. Read MoreOct 27, 2015
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Vanderbilt announces Perry Wallace engineering scholarship to honor first black SEC basketball player
Vanderbilt University will establish the Perry E. Wallace Jr. Scholarship to honor and recognize the achievements of Wallace, who became the first African American to play varsity sports in the Southeastern Conference at a time of lethal racial division across the region. Read MoreOct 23, 2015
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Alum Q&A: OptioLabs’ director of research talks software, Vandy life, fun office space
Hamilton Turner didn’t require much assistance while recruiting at the fall Engineering & IT Industry Career Day – the 2010 computer engineering alumnus knows his way around just fine. But his ties to Vanderbilt University run deeper than that. As a Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Tech, his doctoral adviser was… Read MoreOct 23, 2015
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Chicago Magazine featured poet and alumnus Nate Marshall, BA’12, and his first book, Wild Hundreds
Wild Hundreds, the first book published by Nate Marshall, BA’12—much of it written while he was a Vanderbilt student—offers a portrait of life in West Pullman, his home town on the south side of Chicago. Chicago Magazine profiles Marshall in its October 2015 issue. Read MoreOct 13, 2015