Year: 2009

Watch video of Dr. Harry Jacobson, vice chancellor for Health Affairs, delivering the annual State of the Medical Center Address. Read More

VUCast Newscast: Going green can mean big bucks. (4:01) Read More

Watch video from an event with Willie O'Ree, the man who broke the NHL's color barrier in 1958. Read More

Hundreds of Vanderbilt students will hit the dance floor Feb. 13-14 during Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run event to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Children's Miracle Network. Dance Marathon will be held from 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, until 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Student Recreation Center on Vanderbilt's campus. The event is open to the public and all proceeds from Dance Marathon will go to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

John Murphy, a national expert on presidential campaign speeches and rhetoric, will present "A New Birth of Freedom: Barack Obama and the Rhetorical Uses of History" on Monday, Feb. 16, at 4:10 p.m. at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The son of the namesake of The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions at Vanderbilt Divinity School will speak during a Feb. 26 breakfast about lessons learned from a leadership challenge. Read More

Watch video of a talk by Georgene Troseth, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, Peabody College. Read More

Voters have the opportunity to meet the candidates running for the Metro Council District 18 seat and hear their ideas on wide-ranging community issues during a Feb. 22 forum. Read More

Academically talented 5th and 6th graders taking part in the Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young, or SAVY, will have a chance to tour a trailer decked out with cutting-edge, computer-aided gizmos and interactive technology Saturday, Feb. 14, from 10 to 11 a.m. in Lot 111 on the corner of 19th and Edgehill avenues. Read More

Vanderbilt University senior Amanda Scott has won a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship – a full-cost award for graduate study and research in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Read More

Muhammad Yunus Vanderbilt PSA. Read More

Hundreds of Vanderbilt students will hit the dance floor Feb. 13-14 to benefit the health of area children during Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run event to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Children's Miracle Network. Read More

Last May, during my remarks at Vanderbilt University's graduate school commencement ceremony, I shared this observation, "The world you're about to enter as Vanderbilt's newest alumni is a world where many of the challenges so in need of fresh ideas are increasingly measured in trillions." Little did I know then that the economy's approaching nosedive would soon turn trillions into front-page news. Read More

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Israeli legislator Natan Sharansky will deliver public lectures at Vanderbilt University March 17-18 as part of the university's annual Impact Symposium. Read More

Ethics, the economy and you: Two Vanderbilt professors discuss the critical economic climate facing our country in this special InterVU. (10:12) Read More

Poet Maggie Anderson, famed for her evocation of Appalachian themes and language in her work, will read from her poems at Vanderbilt University as part of the Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series. Read More

Listen to Patrick O'Keeffe reading in Buttrick Hall as part of the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program at Vanderbilt. Read More

Gary Gerstle\'s award-winning book American Crucible: Race and Nationhood in the Twentieth Century was recently cited on NPR\'s Fresh Air as one of the "Best Books for a Transformative New Year." Read More

Watch a Feb. 4 talk by Professor of Art Mel Ziegler. Read More

Endowment managers at Vanderbilt University bested many of their peers in the last six months of 2008, with Vanderbilt's endowment declining 16.5 percent during a period of severe economic downturn. Read More