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Dixon McDonald, BA'11, and teammates Jimmy Carroll, Todd Hooper and Jono Mawson rowed approximately 3,000 miles from the Canary Islands, just off the coast of Africa, to the Caribbean nation of Antigua in a boat only 28 feet long and a little more than 3 feet wide last December for the 2020 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Read More

Last November, alumnus Gene Back’s growing list of accomplishments caught the attention of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The organization, which promotes the art of motion pictures on both sides of the Atlantic, selected him as a Breakthrough Talent. Read More

Alumnus Christopher Tuff, author of bestseller 'The Millennial Whisperer,' says this generation wants to matter to their employers, and they want their work to matter too. Understanding this dynamic results in business tactics that cost zero dollars and provide big paybacks. Read More

A profile of Graduate School alumnus Thomas G. Burton, whose book 'The Serpent and the Spirit' was the basis for the recent HBO documentary 'Alabama Snake.' Read More

Oliver is a co-founder of the Equity Alliance, an organization dedicated to educating and energizing the Black electorate. Read More

It’s been a long journey for CEO and founding artistic director Dorothy Gunther Pugh, the former junior-high schoolteacher whose dream was to bring a premier ballet company to her native city. For her vision she was named Memphian of the Year last December by Memphis, the City Magazine. Read More

The team rowed in shifts of two, with two team members resting in the stern compartment. Mother Nature didn’t miss many chances to remind Dixon McDonald who had home-field advantage as the Vanderbilt alumnus and three teammates attempted to row across the Atlantic Ocean. A marlin’s spear-like bill provided a… Read More

Yarbrough's World War II scrapbook is now part of the foundational collection of the Smithsonian’s newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Read More

Christina Sharkey Geist is many things: a mother, wife, brand strategist, small business owner, “mompreneur” and, now, a children’s book author. Read More

Bozeman's tireless efforts to encourage women from underrepresented groups to pursue graduate degrees in mathematics were recognized by President Obama when he appointed her to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science. The 12-member committee is responsible for identifying nominees for the president’s consideration in selecting recipients for the prestigious award. Read More

In his American Epic series, currently on display at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Shaw presents broad themes like religion and technology in lush, detailed and sometimes disturbing imagery, rooting his interpretation in the style of the painters of the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Read More

Rosenheim knows her birds. She focuses on fliers from the famous red-tailed hawks occupying a posh perch on Fifth Avenue to the marine fowl of Long Island estates and estuaries. Read More

When Bruce Heyman was asked to serve as U.S. ambassador to Canada, he and his wife, Vicki, were ready for the challenge. Read More

As a first-year student at Vanderbilt in 1951, Lee Ann Allen sat on the hillside and watched senior Charlie Hawkins pitch for the Commodores. There were no dugouts and no stands, just simple wooden benches for each team. She fell in love with Charlie—Vanderbilt’s first All-SEC baseball player—and then with Vanderbilt baseball. Read More

Recently, the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee awarded Francis Guess, MBM'74, its annual Joe Kraft Humanitarian Award, adding him to a roster of honorees that includes John Seigenthaler, Martha Ingram, Vince Gill and Amy Grant, ’82 Read More

Hal Moses, the Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and acting chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University, has been chosen to receive the highest honor conferred on members of the Vanderbilt alumni community: the Distinguished Alumni Award. Read More

Joe Bozich, CEO of Knights Apparel, provides a thread of hope for hundreds in the Dominican Republic. Read More

The team rowed in shifts of two, with two team members resting in the stern compartment. Mother Nature didn’t miss many chances to remind Dixon McDonald who had home-field advantage as the Vanderbilt alumnus and three teammates attempted to row across the Atlantic Ocean. A marlin’s spear-like bill provided a… Read More

The team rowed in shifts of two, with two team members resting in the stern compartment. Mother Nature didn’t miss many chances to remind Dixon McDonald who had home-field advantage as the Vanderbilt alumnus and three teammates attempted to row across the Atlantic Ocean. A marlin’s spear-like bill provided a… Read More

On the Discovery network’s show Moonshiners, whiskey makers stay one step ahead of the law as they tend backwoods stills. Troy Ball is also a moonshiner, but the similarities between her and the Appalachia moonshiners featured on the show are few. Ball’s whiskey is legal and, by all accounts, some of the best on the market. Read More