Communications And Marketing

  • Vanderbilt’s impact on mid-state economy increases to $3 billion

    Vanderbilt’s impact on mid-state economy increases to $3 billion

    Vanderbilt’s impact on the local economy totaled at least $3 billion last year, according to a recently completed analysis. The University\'s economic impact on the Middle Tennessee region in fiscal year 2001 is up from $2.8 billion in FY 2000 – a 7 percent increase. Read More

    Jan 14, 2002

  • Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond to speak at Vanderbilt

    Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond to speak at Vanderbilt

    Cultural critic and physiologist Jared Diamond had studied bird evolution in New Guinea for 34 years when one day a local politician asked him two very direct evolutionary questions: Why had New Guineans continued to use stone tools until relatively recently, and why had Europeans and Americans been the ones to introduce them to steel tools, books and ships? Read More

    Jan 4, 2002

  • Music the focus of events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at Vanderbilt University

    Music the focus of events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at Vanderbilt University

    A performance by the internationally renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers, improving Black-Jewish relations through jazz, and music as a means of HIV/AIDS intervention are just some of the highlights Jan. 14-29 during Vanderbilt University’s 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series – “Music, Memory & The Movement: The Sounds of Liberation.” Read More

    Jan 3, 2002