Fall 2015

When the Class of 2015 walked across the Commencement stage in May, their steps were just the first along a lifetime path with Vanderbilt. Read More

Jean Bass Crawford, editor of Vanderbilt Magazine for 29 years and former director of Vanderbilt’s Office of Alumni Publications, died Aug. 7 in Nashville. Read More

Francis Guess, a revered Nashville business leader, trailblazer in the private sector, and a champion of civil rights, died July 23. Read More

Frank Mordica, one of the greatest running backs in Vanderbilt football history, died of a heart attack July 18 in his hometown of Tallahassee, Florida, at the age of 57. Read More

Fourteen lucky students had some pretty great seats for the Sept. 25 Taylor Swift concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, thanks to Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. Read More

An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Mary and Harry Zimmerman Judaica Collection is on view at the Vanderbilt University Divinity Library through March 2016. Read More

Forging Identity—Imagining the Enemy: American Propaganda and the Great War at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery draws on a large number of World War I posters from the Peabody College Collection that focus on the need for troops, money, medical personnel and supplies, and a spirit of public unity. Read More

This fall the Blair School of Music presents two operas diametrically opposed in style, scale and staging. Read More

Vanderbilt University Theatre opened its 2015–16 season in early October with Metamorphoses, a theatrical adaptation by Mary Zimmerman of Ovid’s classical Greek stories. Read More

Reprinted from the May/June 1970 issue of the Vanderbilt Alumnus, this is the last in a yearlong series celebrating the 100th anniversary of Vanderbilt Magazine. Read More

Although Granados spent most of her childhood in the U.S., she is acutely aware of the discrimination female soccer players face in her home country. She hopes the recent success of the Colombia women's team at the World Cup will change some minds. Read More

Jacob “Jake” Brewer, a White House senior policy adviser to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, died Sept. 19 in a collision with a car in Mount Airy, Maryland, while participating in a charity bicycle ride for cancer treatment programs. He was 34. Read More