Vanderbilt Magazine

At Vanderbilt, the future of AI isn't just a technical question — it's a moral one. Read More

When Vanderbilt University Provost C. Cybele Raver sits down with faculty to learn something new, her classroom isn’t a lecture hall or research lab—it’s the Quantum Potential podcast studio. Read More

For the first time in 16 years, Vanderbilt replaced summer reading with something more courageous: asking students to go out, talk and listen. Read More

When Jennifer and Marc Lipschultz committed nearly 5,000 photographs to the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, they handed a group of Vanderbilt art history students a unique opportunity to step out of the classroom and into museum practice. Read More

Vanderbilt supports new faculty every step of the way—by connecting them with senior faculty who serve as mentors, observe their classes and provide valuable feedback, and proofread their grant proposals to make them stronger. These professors who joined Vanderbilt in the past few years shed light on how the university has helped them succeed.  Read More

At Vanderbilt, research doesn’t just live in the lab. It moves into the world in the shape of new tools, treatments and technologies that improve lives, support communities and expand what’s possible. Read More

Vanderbilt Magazine celebrates the lives and mourns the loss last spring of three Vanderbilt alumni who led with passion and generosity during times of transition and change: James Stephen “Steve” Turner, BA’69; Sylvia Sanders Kelley, BA'54; and H. Rodes Hart, BA'54. Read More

Jacob Alexander Schroeder, BA’22, of Boise, Idaho, died Dec. 6, 2024. He was 25 years old. He attended Vanderbilt as a Curb Scholar in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership, was a Buchanan Library Fellow, chaired the American Enterprise Institute’s Executive Council at Vanderbilt, was a student government senator and a recipient of the Ainslie World Travel Fellowship. Read More

The leaves of trees lining our beautiful campus are blazing with autumnal color. Even these ancient arbors offer us a powerful example. Standing firmly rooted, they embrace change. Like all in our Vanderbilt community, they dare to grow. Spread the word about great things happening at Vanderbilt. Stay connected to our work and to one another’s, and share with us your own big ideas. Read More

Caleb Feiring, BA'15, who studied English, economics and history at Vanderbilt, is an entrepreneur with an interesting—and incredibly tiny—place to call home in New York City. Read More

The success of the Posse Foundation and its partnership with Vanderbilt is highlighted in 'Disrupt Everything—and Win: Take Control of Your Future' (Hatchette Book Group/Little, Brown and Company, 2025) by James Patterson, MA’70, and Patrick Leddin, associate professor at Owen Graduate School of Management. Read an excerpt of the book here. Read More

Antonio Akins, BS’96, gave a generous donation to the inaugural Global Good Hackathon after conversations with the School of Engineering and the College of Connected Computing, Vanderbilt’s first new college in 40 years. For Akins, the hackathon represented more than just innovation—it signaled a transformative shift in who will shape tomorrow’s technology. Read More

The Vanderbilt experience is woven into the lives of Allyson Maske, BS’92, and Jim Maske, BE’93, MBA’99, who first met as undergraduates. Between them, they have attended four of Vanderbilt’s schools and colleges, and their son, J.D., is a member of the Class of 2028 at Peabody College. The Maskes are on the Parent Leadership Committee and made recent gifts to Vandy United and Opportunity Vanderbilt in support of the university’s Dare to Grow campaign. Read More

The AAVA embodies the transformative power of connection and cultural identity—all from a place of gratitude. It strengthens the presence of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American community through cultural celebrations and networking events, collaborating with student organizations to connect alumni with current Vanderbilt students. Joy Cox, BA’98, MD’02, is AAVA's president. Read More

Darryl Berger, BA’69, and his family, have hosted the New Orleans Commodore Launch for four decades, marked by hospitality, connection and Commodore pride. Read More

Peabody College of education and human development has long had a partnership with the Murrell School, an East Nashville school for students with extreme emotional and learning disabilities. Vanderbilt now supplies more than 90 percent of student teachers to the school, which is led by principal Susan Siegel, BS’78, and assistant principal Tyisha Walker, PhD’25, and counts numerous Vanderbilt alums on the teaching staff. Read More

In this conversation with Vanderbilt Magazine, Dean Matthew Johnson-Roberson discusses his vision for the new College of Connected Computing, the integration of AI across disciplines and why “connected computing” represents the future of technology education. Read More

On campus, the buildings where the small details of collegiate life happen—where roommates first meet, lifelong friendships form and conversations take place over meals and countless cups of coffee—often matter as much as calculus or English. These are the places where memories are built. Branscomb and McTyeire were the heart and soul of many fond campus experiences, some of them life-changing. Read More

Clark Hubbard, BMus'18, marches to his own tune as a composer, drummer and assistant director of marching and athletic bands at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Big dreams come naturally to Michael Clinton, MBA'07, acquisitions manager and partner at Midos Development Group in Los Angeles. Two of his most recent projects are The Guest House in Natchez, Mississippi, an antebellum mansion built by enslaved people that is now a 16-room bed and breakfast, and The Redline Venice, a former apartment building on Venice Beach now converted into a hotel. Read More