Vanderbilt’s humanities strengths will be on display at 2025 Southern Festival of Books
The 2025 Southern Festival of Books, presented by Vanderbilt University in partnership with Humanities Tennessee, will connect faculty, students, alumni and others with university ties to a vast community that shares their love for creative expression. The festival, now in its 37th year, will be at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Museum and Tennessee State Library and Archives Oct. 18–19. Admission is free.Read More
UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
Acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson emphasizes the role of storytelling in building connection and fostering dialogue
Engaging in thoughtful dialogue is not only essential in today’s society, but also is a trademark of the Vanderbilt experience, which begins with the first-year experience on The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. On Sunday, Sept. 14, author Jacqueline Woodson spoke to a packed Langford Auditorium for the 19th Annual Lawson Lecture and offered a master class for the Class of 2029 on using storytelling to foster discourse and find connection, continuing the 2025–26 first-year programming theme of “Stories that Connect Us.”Read More
ATHLETICS
Dores host Sooners, Razorbacks to open SEC play at home
Vanderbilt volleyball will play its first SEC matches at Memorial Gymnasium on Friday and Sunday. The Dores will host Oklahoma at 7 p.m. on Friday for student night, where the first 350 Vanderbilt students will receive a free “Deep End” t shirt. They will then host Arkansas at 1 p.m. Sunday for the program’s $1 ticket match, and the team will sign post-match autographs on the court that afternoon. Both matches will be streamed on SEC Network+.Read More
Saturday, No. 16 Vanderbilt travels to No. 10 Alabama for arguably one of its biggest regular season games in living memory. And in SEC football, being able to argue about these things is the point. It’s a seat at the table. On the heels of its first 5-0 start since 2008, Vanderbilt will play a game between top-16 opponents for the first time since 1956. Click the image above to read more about how, by believing in the mission from the beginning, the Commodores from Clark Lea’s first recruiting class helped Vanderbilt become a college football destination.
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