Slay energy vampires this Halloween
As little ghosts and ghouls prepare to come out in search of Halloween treats, be sure you don’t have any silent menaces lurking around your office or home tricking you into using more energy. Read More
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Artist Michelangelo to be focus of Art History’s Goldberg Lecture
The artist known to the world simply as Michelangelo is the focus of a Goldberg Lecture in Art History by William Wallace, a distinguished professor and author, Nov. 5 at Cohen Memorial Hall. Read More
Learn tips, options for less expensive travel Nov. 12
Learn tips and options for less expensive travel Nov. 12. Read More
Vanderbilt announces Perry Wallace engineering scholarship to honor first black SEC basketball player
Vanderbilt University will establish the Perry E. Wallace Jr. Scholarship to honor and recognize the achievements of Wallace, who became the first African American to play varsity sports in the Southeastern Conference at a time of lethal racial division across the region. Read More
Vanderbilt celebrates annual Reunion
Some 5,000 Vanderbilt alumni, along with their spouses and family members, descended on campus Oct. 23-24 for Vanderbilt's annual Reunion and Homecoming celebration. Check out the best of the weekend's events on social media. Read More
Reminder: Open Enrollment ends Oct. 30
Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to update or choose the benefit options that best meet your and your family’s needs. Read More
Our favorite #vandygram photos of the week
It's fall, it's Reunion, it's #vandygram time. See more of our favorites photos on the Get Social website. Read More
Global efforts against human trafficking topic of Vanderbilt Divinity breakfast
Historian Paul Lim will speak at the Oct. 30 Divinity School community breakfast about his current research on the role of evangelical nonprofit organizations in Nashville and around the world to combat human trafficking. Read More
Free public lecture on the physics behind CSI
The director of forensic investigations for the Italian State Police is giving a free public lecture titled "A physicist at the crime scene" on the Vanderbilt campus on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 29. Read More
NEH chair to deliver Warren Center’s Howard Lecture
NEH Chair William Adams, who was a strong supporter of higher education projects relating to the humanities while serving as president of Colby College, will deliver the Harry C. Howard Lecture at Vanderbilt University Oct. 27. Read More
Help refresh Hillsboro Village dragon mural Oct. 31
Hillsboro Village neighbors and merchants are collaborating on a refresh of the 20-year-old dragon mural that spans the side of 1801 21st Ave. S., and the community is invited to help. Read More
Runner’s High: David Graeflin, BE’68, closes the doors of The Athlete’s House
Runners are a group Graeflin knows well. He ran track at Vanderbilt, and is the longtime owner of The Athlete’s House in Nashville, the first store in Tennessee devoted to running apparel and gear. Read More
Rocky Mountain Hi-Tech: Vanderbilt Helps Build a Sustainable City
Situated 20 miles southwest of Denver, and nestled between two state parks that offer stunning views of the Rocky Mountains, Sterling Ranch doesn’t look like much now. But during the next 20 years, the five-square-mile, $4.3 billion planned community will take shape as a futuristic city. Read More
Vandy Goes Pro: Impressive Numbers of Commodores Are Playing on Professional Teams
Vanderbilt has always sent a handful of players to the major leagues, but in recent years there’s been a noticeable trend of more Commodores making it to the pros. Read More
Vanderbilt For Life: Learning and Adventure Don’t End with Graduation
Vanderbilt Alumni Association chapters currently exist in 37 U.S. cities and five international locations—the newest one in Japan—and offer a range of activities to help keep Vanderbilt’s 135,000 alumni connected to each other and to the university. Read More
Special Delivery: VUMC Partners with Baby+Company to Open Nashville Birth Center
Pregnancy doesn’t necessarily require hospital care. That simple premise is what led Cara Osborne, MSN’01, to co-author a landmark study demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of giving birth outside a traditional medical setting. It’s also an idea that she’s put into practice as the founder of Baby+Company, a group of five freestanding birth centers across the U.S. Read More
Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld: Proud to Serve
Vanderbilt physician Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, a commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve and a combat veteran, has made news more than once by advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) issues. Read More
Where Did You Learn to Write Like This?
Where did I learn to write? I didn’t learn to write in one semester, but I learned to ask for help—and I’m still asking. Read More
A Farewell to Arms: Unique Keepsakes in Special Collections
Kathleen Smith, associate director of special collections for Vanderbilt’s Jean and Alexander Heard Library system, and her team occasionally find themselves on the receiving end of unique objects that have been passed along to the university, from vintage movie posters to—as in the case of items highlighted here—armaments and other war-themed matériel. Read More
That Vanderbilt Connection
About a week after my first issue as editor of Vanderbilt Magazine came off the press, a wondrous, forgotten little device on my desk started to ring … and ring … and ring some more. In a world brimming with text messages, email and social media posts, I hadn’t fielded so many phone calls in perhaps a decade. Read More