Communications And Marketing

Members of The Band Perry recently visited Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Paul Turczynski graduated Vanderbilt University in 1990 with dual undergraduate degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering and a plan to go to medical school. Today, he’s the director for The Boeing Company’s Solution Architectures Group with the Electronics & Information Solutions unit. Read More

Shan Foster, BS’08, is joining the YWCA of Nashville & Middle Tennessee as director of MEND, a primary prevention initiative dedicated to ending violence against women and girls in our community. A retired professional basketball player and the all-time leading scorer for Vanderbilt University men’s basketball team, he has served… Read More

The Who’s Roger Daltrey and The Band Perry met with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt representatives recently as part of Teen Cancer America. Read More

Melvin Porter, LLB’59, Oklahoma’s first African-American state senator, was recently honored on the floor of the Senate, 50 years after his election to office. Read More

In the latest VUCast: Learn how students are gaining decades of wisdom through words and images; see engineering student inventions that could improve health care; and celebrate Vanderbilt's newest national champions! Watch now. Read More

See highlights from Commencement, and learn how the Class of 2015 celebrated its special day. Read More

Watch video of the May 8, 2015 Commencement ceremony.  … Read More

Friday's commencement schedule. Read More

Ashley Stokes, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Imaging Science, received the 2015 Postdoc of the Year award last week at the annual Postdoctoral Research and Shared Resources Symposium in Light Hall. Read More

Watch video of Senior Day speaker author Walter Isaacson addressing graduates and their families in Memorial Gymnasium. Isaacson, author of The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution and the former editor of TIME magazine, spoke on “Timeless Leadership.” Isaacson received the Nichols-Chancellor’s… Read More

Three members of the Vanderbilt community were recently named to Nashville Business Journal’s 2015 class of Health Care Heroes. Read More

Pediatricians at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt have seen four infant deaths from unsafe sleeping habits in the last seven weeks. Infant sleep-related deaths are heartwrenching tragedies that can be preventable when safe sleeping practices are followed. Read More

Matt Belsante, BS’06, an engineering science and economics major at Vanderbilt, didn’t grow up planning to be a professional musician, but he ultimately followed his love of jazz. Now he is a critically acclaimed writer and singer of jazz, pop and swing music similar in style to the crooners of… Read More

Watch video of the memorial service celebrating the life of Levi Watkins Jr., M.D., which was held Thursday, April 30, 2015, at 11 a.m. at Vanderbilt’s Benton Chapel. Dr. Watkins died April 11, 2015. The memorial service was co-officiated by Emilie Townes, Ph.D.,… Read More

In the latest VUCast: See how a School of Engineering senior is improving children’s educational apps; hear about the “revolution” our Senior Day speaker will share with graduates; and learn how Vanderbilt is investing in Tennessee. Watch now! Read More

They walked up to us, one by one, for nearly two hours, many of them with tears in their eyes. Then they looked at the man seated next to me, clasped his hands, and spoke from the heart. I’m sorry for what you went through. I could have done more… Read More

“Virgins, Mothers, and Martyrs: Women in Early Christian Africa,” delivered by Kate Cooper on April 27, 2015. This event was sponsored by Vanderbilt University’s Department of Classical Studies, The Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality at Vanderbilt Divinity School, and the Late Antiquity seminar at Vanderbilt’s Robert Penn… Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center staff covered under the FlexPTO (Flexible Paid Time Off) policy will have up to 40 hours of accrued, unused FlexPTO time transferred to their grandfathered sick bank. Read More

Last week’s Shade Tree Trot and benefit dinner raised a record amount — more than $51,000. Read More