Communications And Marketing

Watch video of Nashville Mayor Karl Dean speak Sept. 24 on leadership as part of a breakfast series hosted by The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Watch video of Michael D. Griffin, a former administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, giving the Sept. 24 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture. Read More

Concentration camp survivor Martin Weiss will speak during the 2009 Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University, which is built around the theme "Barriers & Boundaries" for its 32nd year. Weiss, who was liberated by U.S. troops at the Gunskirchen camp in May 1945, will speak at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, in the auditorium at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Vanderbilt University's opportunities for lifelong learning will expand and thrive, thanks to a $1 million endowment from The Bernard Osher Foundation. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt offers non-credit classes that usually last six weeks during fall, winter and spring. Read More

Why millions are watching Vandy & looking gorgeous in green. (6:32) Read More

Dunbar Ogden, author of the 2008 book My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration, will deliver Vanderbilt's annual Walter Murray Commemorative Lecture Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 6:45 p.m. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the multi-purpose room in The Commons Center. Read More

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. Read More

Elyn Saks, a 1977 graduate of Vanderbilt University and renowned legal scholar and mental health-policy advocate, was recently named one of 24 recipients of the 2009 MacArthur Fellow grants. Read More

Concerned with the dramatic decline in the traditional media's coverage of newsworthy scientific and academic activities, Vanderbilt has joined with 34 other top research universities to create Futurity.org, an online news channel designed to showcase the achievements of their scientists and engineers, medical researchers and scholars. Read More

Watch video of a Sept. 21 panel discussion on issues of identity and diversity through the lens of late pop star Michael Jackson's life and career. Read More

This year's Health Care Business Alliance, titled "Leading Change: the Future of Health Care," will be held at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel on Friday, Oct. 2. Read More

Vanderbilt University is helping keep safe the thousands of people who live, work, learn or receive health care on the campus by being the first and only university in Tennessee to become certified as "StormReady" by the National Weather Service. Read More

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which debuts Oct. 2 at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt University, is a chilling dark comedy of new love and old hatreds. Read More

The impact of recognition and rewards on student attendance and performance in afterschool programs is the aim of a new study being launched by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University and uBoost, a company that manages student reward programs. Read More

A VUMC researcher and his medical doctor wife have developed a program providing rural high school students paid jobs in a major university science lab. The federal stimulus funds have produced remarkable results for some Arkansas teens. Barb Cramer has the story. Read More

Ricardo Lagos, a former Chilean president whose administration achieved strong economic growth while adopting democratic and social reforms, will address current issues facing Latin America during an Oct. 1 lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Terrorism at the ballot box, breakthrough Alzheimer's research at the Med Center & Commodore goes old school. (5:40) Read More

Questions about the notion of civility have been a hot topic given the recent outbursts of rapper Kanye West, tennis player Serena Williams and Congressman Joe Wilson. On Thursday, Sept. 24, Vanderbilt University will explore the topic further with the lecture "Civility in Decline? The View from the American College Campus." Read More

Civil rights movement leader the Rev. James Lawson will highlight the fall 2009 semester programming of Vanderbilt Divinity School when he delivers the annual Cole Lectures Oct. 15-16. Read More

Vanderbilt University's class of 2013 ranks as the school's most academically prepared and most diverse class in school history, with the most competitive selection process. More than 19,353 students applied, up from 16,944 last year. Of the 1,599 students enrolled in the class, 86 percent came from the top 10 percent of their graduating class. A total of 167 were valedictorians or salutatorians, 187 National Merit Scholars and 12 National Achievement Scholars. Read More