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The President’s Corner

While the Vanderbilt Alumni Association doesn’t hold caucuses, primaries or candidate debates, we do engage annually in the very important task of selecting new volunteer… Read More

Podcasts for Career Advice

The Vanderbilt Alumni Association now offers podcasts for alumni in career transition. Featuring several different career experts, these videos offer tips and other advice on… Read More

Keep Your Vanderbilt Connections Strong

The Vanderbilt Alumni Association seeks to expand its shared interest groups, which bring together alumni with a common interest or connection, such as undergraduate student… Read More

Shots Heard Round the World

“Flulapalooza,” a drill of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mass vaccination plan, broke the Guinness world record for most vaccinations given in an eight-hour period. Free… Read More

Contributors for the Spring 2012 Issue

Helen Hudson Helen Hudson, MEd’94, has enjoyed a varied career: high school English teacher, songwriter, recording artist, actress, therapist, speaker and author. Her memoir,… Read More

Vanderbilt Magazine Staff – Spring 2012

COVER: Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital patient Ansley McLaurin gets a backstage tour of the Grand Ole Opry House from Rascal Flatts members Jay DeMarcus,… Read More

Training Program Assesses Returning Soldiers’ Mental Health Needs

With the official end of the U.S. war in Iraq and the return home of thousands of service members, Vanderbilt researchers are working with the… Read More

Study Confirms Safety of Vaccines

A report released by the Institute of Medicine last September confirms the safety of eight vaccines studied by a committee of experts convened in 2009… Read More

Pocketbook Politics and Short Memories

One factor will go a long way toward determining whether President Obama—or any incumbent president—is re-elected, claims a Vanderbilt political scientist. Here it is: If… Read More

From the Readers

Easy Money, Hard Lessons This is the best article [“Missteps to Mayhem,” Summer 2011] I have read concerning our current… Read More

From the Editor: Terms of Engagement

Vanderbilt Magazine's first cover after the last redesign in 2002. This issue of Vanderbilt Magazine represents the last of its kind—but by no means signals… Read More

A New Tradition of Giving

As the first class to have begun its Vanderbilt education experience at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, the Class of 2012 has grown accustomed to… Read More

The Power of Scholarships for Medical Students

Irène Mathieu received a Canby Robinson Society scholarship. As a Fulbright scholar in the Dominican Republic, Irène Mathieu developed a passion for global health. But… Read More

Inspiring Future Generations

Dr. W. Bedford Waters celebrates with his mother, Irene Georgia Bedford Waters, on her 90th birthday. Dr. W. Bedford Waters, BA’70, MD’74, established the Irene… Read More

Visual Arts: Molten Mysteries

Santisteban in his Franklin, Tenn., studio Jose Santisteban—beads of perspiration glistening on his brow—rotates a long, thin metal tube tipped with a bubble of honey-colored… Read More

Books and Writers: A Focus on Family

The year 2011 was a very good one for writer Kevin Wilson, BA’00. His first novel, The Family Fang, was published by Ecco, an imprint… Read More

Recent Books

Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America by Steven Tepper, associate professor of sociology and associate director of… Read More

Music: Crossing Over to Success

Singer Chris Mann is a finalist on NBC's The Voice. Singer Chris Mann, BMus’04, knows what it’s like to have the rug pulled out from… Read More

A Brother’s Gift

Ken Diehl, BS’75 (left), and his brother, Robert, ’77 In the early summer of 2009, Ken Diehl started feeling poorly. He had been diagnosed with… Read More

Baby Keeping You Awake?

KATIE PEIFER BARTLEY, BS’00 Bartley with Campbell (now 6), Rider (now 2) and Keller (now 4) Before her first child was born in 2005,… Read More