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  • Open House

    Open House

    Libraries can be intimidating places. The young James Baldwin thought so. Read More

    Dec 2, 2010

  • Acts of Faith

    Acts of Faith

    Divinity grads aim to compensate for the chaos in contemporary society. Read More

    Dec 2, 2010

  • Blending Back In

    Blending Back In

    Freak accidents sever limbs. Tumors disfigure faces. And reconstructive plastic surgeons team up for their toughest challenges. Read More

    Dec 2, 2010

  • Leader of the Pack

    Leader of the Pack

    Out of the shadows of the Vanderbilt constellation has emerged a glittering star. During the past decade Peabody College of education and human development has been quietly elevating its national reputation as one of the most—if not the most—respected schools of education in the country. For the past two years, U.S. News… Read More

    Aug 22, 2010

  • Wide Exposure

    Wide Exposure

    Last year more than 700 Vanderbilt students received part of their education outside the United States, choosing from more than 100 Vanderbilt study abroad programs. During the past decade Vanderbilt has significantly increased resources to make international study accessible to more students. From nearly 300 entries submitted to the Global… Read More

    Aug 22, 2010

  • Chance of a Lifetime

    Chance of a Lifetime

    One hundred million dollars in gifts for scholarships. That’s the ambitious goal of Opportunity Vanderbilt, the university’s commitment to replace need-based undergraduate student loans with grants and scholarships. The good news: To date, Vanderbilt has raised $81 million in gifts for scholarship endowment. The not-so-good news: Vanderbilt’s… Read More

    Aug 22, 2010

  • Deep Roots, Strong Tree

    Deep Roots, Strong Tree

    As a Republican leader during a time when partisanship rocks the nation’s Capitol, Lamar Alexander walks a thin line. Read More

    Apr 7, 2010

  • Flood Tide in Tennessee

    Flood Tide in Tennessee

    Vanderbilt takes on the childhood obesity epidemic, one family at a time. Read More

    Apr 7, 2010

  • Good to Be Greek

    Good to Be Greek

    The mantra for 21st-century Greek organizations: Work hard, play hard, be smart, be safe, be responsible. Read More

    Apr 7, 2010

  • Rebirth of the Midwife

    Rebirth of the Midwife

    Tisha Holloway was exhausted. She had been laboring in a North Carolina hospital for almost 26 hours to give birth to her first child, but the baby just wouldn’t come. “I tried to do everything right during my pregnancy,” the 27-year-old woman says. “I ate right, exercised, kept my… Read More

    Nov 23, 2009

  • Humanity Ascending

    Humanity Ascending

    It is a tenet of the self-help faith: Follow your passion, and it will lead you down the road to professional success, personal fulfillment and financial reward. The alumni profiled in this issue turn this self-help cliché on its head. They have followed their passions, yes, but down an alternate… Read More

    Nov 23, 2009

  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters

    Bridge Over Troubled Waters

    (Photo: Herb Peck) “I have sometimes said that during the half dozen or so years from 1967 to 1973, I never relaxed once,” Vanderbilt’s fifth chancellor, Alexander Heard, once remarked. “That’s not technically true, of course, but I was constantly aware of the local and national matters that affected Vanderbilt’s… Read More

    Nov 23, 2009

  • Strength in Numbers

    Strength in Numbers

    Jeanne Moses didn’t have a history of cancer in her family. She didn’t have symptoms—just backache and a bit of weight loss. Nothing unusual for a 45-year-old mother working two jobs. So she was stunned when her doctor delivered the news: Jeanne Moses—technical writer, theatrical costumer, daughter of the director,… Read More

    Aug 5, 2009

  • Opportunity Vanderbilt

    Opportunity Vanderbilt

    Rodes Hart (left) and Orrin Ingram Rodes Hart and Orrin Ingram believe in Vanderbilt. As alumni, trustees, philanthropists and visionaries, they reflect on the opportunities—and challenges—of eliminating need-based loans and increasing scholarship endowment. Rodes Hart, who graduated from the College of Arts and Science in 1954 and now… Read More

    Aug 5, 2009

  • Women Who Opened Doors

    Women Who Opened Doors

    The Vanderbilt Aid Society elected Elizabeth Boddie Elliston (above) as its first president and Mary Barbour Wallace (left) as its first secretary/treasurer. The “simple fare” served at their organizational meeting included chicken salad, scalloped oysters, beaten biscuits, sandwiches, individual ices and cakes, almonds, and pink and white mints. It began… Read More

    Aug 5, 2009

  • The Truest Eye

    The Truest Eye

    I knew Neil Brake was a remarkably gifted photographer as soon as I saw his portfolio. From the day he came to work at Vanderbilt eight years ago, he dogged the campus like it was his beat and as if he were competing for a front-page hot spot. Years of… Read More

    Mar 16, 2009

  • Janus Rising

    Janus Rising

    illustration by liz asher/www.lizasher.com Clarksville, Tenn., a city of 125,000 on the Tennessee–Kentucky border, is best known for its proximity to the sprawling Fort Campbell Army Base. The town takes pride in attracting new industry and bills itself as the “Gateway to the New South.” But Clarksville is also a… Read More

    Mar 16, 2009

  • Manna Falls on La Chureca

    Manna Falls on La Chureca

    The largest open dump in Latin America, La Chureca was named one of the “20 Horrors of the Modern World” in a contest sponsored by the Spanish magazine Interviu. For outright squalor and heartbreak, the city dump of Managua, Nicaragua, where 1,500 people live daily on rotting scraps, could serve… Read More

    Mar 16, 2009

  • Lessons Learned the Hard Way

    Lessons Learned the Hard Way

    [Smiley Pool/MCT] It seems every time we turn on the news, a disaster has occurred. With all our knowledge, skill and technology, why can’t we do something to prevent them, or at least keep them from causing such devastation? Watch video of Mark Abkowitz discussing risk management Several years… Read More

    Oct 31, 2008

  • First Impressions

    First Impressions

    “Welcome to the greatest university in the world,” proclaimed Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos to first-year students as they arrived on campus in late August with duffle bags, twin-size bed linens and teary-eyed moms in tow. They are the first entering Vanderbilt class to live and learn in The Commons, in… Read More

    Oct 31, 2008