Month: October 2008

Listen to a podcast of a discussion with film director Annalee Davis. Read More

Alexandros Mallias, Greece's ambassador to the United States, will join Vanderbilt University Professor of Classics, Emerita, Susan Ford Wiltshire for a discussion of the roots of the American political tradition in the ancient Greek city-states 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Room 237 of The Commons Center. Read More

Three Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development faculty members and a Peabody graduate student have been recently named recipients of national awards in their fields of study. Read More

New Vanderbilt research identifies seven simple actions individuals can start today that have the potential to dramatically reduce energy use and carbon emissions. Read More

More than 1,300 newly registered voters can make their voices heard during this year's hotly contested presidential race thanks to the efforts of Vanderbilt University student organizations. Read More

Listen to a podcast of a talk by Emily Rapp, the author of "Poster Child" talk about her experiences as a disabled teenager with a prosthetic leg and how those experiences affected her body image. Read More

Listen to a podcast of a talk by Emily Rapp, the author of "Poster Child" talk about her experiences as a disabled teenager with a prosthetic leg and how those experiences affected her body image. Read More

Listen to an Oct. 14 podcast by Bill Friskics-Warren. Read More

Listen to an Oct. 14 podcast by Bill Friskics-Warren. Read More

Who is heading to Antarctica for the eighth time? And, going ‘green' just got easier. It's VUCast time for the week of Oct. 19. Read More

Who is heading to Antarctica for the eighth time? And, going ‘green' just got easier. It's VUCast time for the week of Oct. 19. Read More

Over the past year, thanks to numerous alumni, parents and friends who stepped forward and made a gift to Peabody, our campaign has grown to $57.9 million. All of these gifts added to Peabody’s ambitious $60 million campaign goal as part of the university’s ongoing comprehensive campaign, Shape the Future. Read More

The opening of the exhibit “Creative Expressions XIV” in October will mark the 14th anniversary of the arts collaboration between the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and The Mayor’s Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities. Its purpose is to showcase the creative talents of artists with disabilities... Read More

Vanderbilt basketball star Shan Foster is the kind of student who gives teachers hope that the next generation is in good hands. Read More

Austen Heim, who has studied and done volunteer service projects all over the world—Japan, New Zealand, London, China and Ecuador—now has a corporate job title that perfectly matches his skills. He is a human capital analyst at Deloitte & Touche in Manhattan. Read More

About 1,550 first-year students at Vanderbilt are now housed in The Commons in “houses” with names familiar to Peabody alums: North, West, East, Gillette and Memorial. In addition there are the newly constructed Murray, Stambaugh, Sutherland, Crawford and Hank Ingram Houses, built where the Married Student and Garrison… Read More

Next summer, Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College will offer a number of short-term professional development programs building on the college’s experience and reputation for training administrators and senior practitioners. Read More

Listen to a podcast of a talk by Lacy Tite, Web developer for Development and Alumni Relations Communications. Read More

Since age 10, Brooke Vaughan has had a dream of climbing Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa. Seventeen years later—by way of Peabody—Vaughan is turning that dream into a far-flung mission, a way to focus her passion and compassion for Africa and the greater good.  In January, she will hike not one… Read More

Peabody’s commitment to hands-on learning and community service gave recent human and organizational development graduate Palmer Harston the confidence to spend the next year helping children orphaned by AIDS in one of the poorest areas of South Africa. Harston, a May graduate who also majored in political science and was… Read More