Year: 2009

Watch video of the Vanderbilt Symphonic Choir's fall concert, Oct. 10, 2009. Read More

Watch an Oct. 8, 2009, performance of the Vanderbilt Wind Symphony, with Thomas Verrier, conductor. Read More

Watch video of an Oct. 8, 2009, "Vive La France!" performance by the Vanderbilt String Orchestra. Read More

Watch video of a Sept. 25, 2009, faculty recital by Agnes Wan, piano. Read More

Watch video of the Vanderbilt Orchestra performing Verdi - La Forza del Destino Overture and Beethoven - Symphony No. 5. Read More

Watch video of a September 17, 2009, performance with Thomas Verrier, conductor. Read More

Watch video of a September 10, 2009, performance by John Johns on guitar, part of the Blair Signature Series. Read More

Anita Jenious has been named the director of the Opportunity Development Center at Vanderbilt University after serving as the interim director for two years. Read More

The Student Alumni Board sponsored its annual Seniorfest on Sept. 10, at which Vanderbilt seniors claimed Alumni Lawn for a class-building afternoon of fun. Read More

Two Vanderbilt University student organizations have teamed up to host "Miracle on 24th Ave.," a holiday-themed fashion show benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Read More

A Vanderbilt professor who specializes in death penalty cases is available as a source for the coming trial of professed 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others implicated in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack. Read More

Vanderbilt was named to an "honor roll" of universities with full female professors in economics. The list was compiled by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) of the American Economic Association. Read More

Recently declassified archival materials offer new insight into the reasons behind the changing dynamics of transatlantic relations since the 1970s, according to Thomas Alan Schwartz, co-editor of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter. Read More

The Schola Pacis, Nashville's male a cappella group, will present the 129-year-old program Festival of Lessons and Carols Dec. 13 at Benton Chapel on the campus of Vanderbilt University. Read More

Five alumni who have distinguished themselves through a variety of careers were inducted into the inaugural class of the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame on Oct. 16. They are (left to right) U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, BA’62; Roy Blount Jr., BA’63, author, humorist and NPR game show panelist;… Read More

Presidential Award Goes to Weiss Sharon Weiss, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been recognized as one of the nation’s top young scientists with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals in the early stages of… Read More

Peabody College has launched two new international Fulbright fellowship programs to bring international educators to the U.S. for a year of study. The Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program, launched this fall, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs through the Academy for… Read More

Among best national universities, tied with Emory and Rice Vanderbilt University had its best-ever overall ranking in the history of the U.S. News & World Report survey in rankings released in August. Vanderbilt is ranked No. 17 in the list of best national universities, tied with Emory and Rice universities. Read More

Now that the BioVU DNA databank has been in place nearly three years for adult patients, program leaders say the time is right to broaden the sample collection group to include children. “The database will accelerate research for adults, and I think children should have that same benefit of scientific… Read More

The value of the investments portfolio of Vanderbilt University’s endowment fell 16.3 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30, one of the most challenging financial periods in modern American history. Vanderbilt has weathered the downturn relatively well when measured against many schools. Prior to a huge stock market sell-off,… Read More