Issues

Since Dance Marathon was established in 2003, the student-led organization has raised more than $1.3 million for Children’s Hospital. Read More

Reif is the founder of Yumbutter, which turns organic peanuts, almonds and sunflowers into products like spicy Thai peanut butter and almond butter with chia, hemp seeds and goji. Read More

Dr. Rachel Idowu spent five weeks in Africa last summer assisting the Ebola outbreak response in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital and most populous city. Read More

Nearly 1,500 alumni and friends gathered Nov. 6 in 36 Vanderbilt chapter cities, including London, Beijing and Shanghai. From the industry-coded name tags to the networking tips and attendee lists provided in advance, the entire focus was on facilitating connections. Read More

Richard F. Arenstorf, professor of mathematics, emeritus, died Sept. 18, 2014, at age 84. Read More

Penny Elizabeth Campbell, a pioneer in the fight for LGBT rights and a strong advocate for justice and equality, died Sept. 3, 2014, at her Nashville home. She was 61. Read More

  The inaugural issue of The Vanderbilt Alumnus, published in October 1915, totaled 20 pages and featured four pages of class notes, a reprint of Chancellor James Kirkland’s address marking the beginning of the academic year, and a half-page section of topical quips called “Impertinent… Read More

For nearly 30 years now, Vanderbilt has enriched my life immeasurably. I am retiring this spring—in the same year that Vanderbilt Magazine celebrates its first 100 years of publication. Read More

For Vanderbilt Divinity School alumni who run Nashville nonprofits, the need to serve the city’s underserved remains as great and as varied as ever. Read More

Amy Grant’s music is like a prism: multifaceted and capable of dazzling surprises at every turn. And just as with a prism, there’s something transformative about the way her music reveals its source of illumination. Her light, so to speak, comes not only from an abiding faith in God but from a belief in humanity’s goodness as well. Read More

Last April, Susan Wente, a cell biologist who most recently served as associate vice chancellor for research and senior associate dean for biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt, was named university provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. Read More

To date, Rosevelt Noble has completed roughly 150 various interviews relating to his project and has taken more than 175,000 photos documenting the experience of African Americans on campus. Read More

Blackwell is founder of Elite College Sports, a Connecticut-based company that helps high school athletes looking to play varsity sports at colleges and universities known for their high academic standards. Read More

In 1960, a brazen thief stole a prized meteorite on display at Vanderbilt's observatory and then replaced it with a painted clay replica. The thief was apprehended, but the meteorite has yet to be returned. Read More

Vanderbilt sent a dozen of its medical doctors, aided by enlisted men and nurses recruited from the Nashville area, to operate Vanderbilt Hospital Unit “S,” based in Nevers in the Bourgogne region of central France. Read More

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Vanderbilt's Melodores won The Sing Off holiday television special, becoming the first collegiate group in the NBC program's history to win the competition. Read More

According to Food Allergy Research and Education, about 1.5 million Americans have food allergies. They affect one in every 13 children under age 18 in the U.S.—or about two in every classroom. Experts differ on whether or not strong evidence exists that food allergies are increasing. Read More

Since 2009 the university’s photographers have organized a photo shoot of the entire freshman class on The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt. In all, about 1,600 students—along with the faculty heads of house and their families—gather for the photo, posing in the shape of the class’ graduation year. Read More

Staffers at the Vanderbilt ALS Clinic endured a good soaking during the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon that swept the nation like a tsunami last August. Read More