The Vanderbilt Story

Round in his vivid yellow topcoat, white bars on his gray wings, the songbird hops in tree-limb shade in New York’s Central Park. It’s early spring, and Kellye Rosenheim, director of development at New York City Audubon, has a catch in her voice as she points him out—indicating where to… Read More

On June 20, 1877, just two years after it opened its doors to students, Vanderbilt University granted its first undergraduate degrees during a grand Commencement ceremony held in the chapel of Kirkland Hall, which was known in those early days as Main Hall. Read More

For the second year in a row, Vanderbilt students were named the happiest college students in the nation by the "Princeton Review"—and they took to social media to share their happiness over the news. Read More

Recruiting student athletes may seem like a no-brainer: Find the most talented players on the field, then make sure they can manage a demanding academic load. But for Vanderbilt baseball’s head coach, Tim Corbin—“Corbs” to his players—desirable stats and good grades aren’t quite enough. Corbin, who was named College… Read More

To see more great photos like this, follow @VanderbiltU on Instagram. To see more social media posts from the Vanderbilt community, visit the Get Social website. Share your photos by tagging them #vandygram. Photo by @kendyll117… Read More

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Before winning NBC’s The Sing Off last December with his fellow Melodores, Ted Moock, BS’15, had already been cast to play a Treblemaker in the movie Pitch Perfect 2, currently out in theatres. Read More

Your #vandygram photos got a special shout-out in this week’s VUCast – watch below to see if recognize your pics. See more of our favorites » Keep up with all Vanderbilt-related social media tweets, posts and photos on the Get Social website, including a special section devoted… Read More

Liz and Russ Fleischer are living a Vanderbilt Owen love story. What began as a chance meeting when they were paired as foursome partners at an Owen-sponsored golf tournament in the summer of 1990 soon blossomed into a relationship set against the backdrop of study sessions for finance class and… Read More

One of the many great things that comes with winning a national championship is watching the excitement unfold on social media. Read More

Paul Turczynski graduated Vanderbilt University in 1990 with dual undergraduate degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering and a plan to go to medical school. Today, he’s the director for The Boeing Company’s Solution Architectures Group with the Electronics & Information Solutions unit. Read More

Judging from the photos shared on Twitter and Instagram, the Vanderbilt community is still on a Commencement high. Take a look at some of our favorite images from the past week. Read More

Here are some of the things Adrian Reif has done since graduating from Vanderbilt eight years ago: Taught English in China. Started an environmental consulting company. Worked for a wealth management company. Trekked Nepal and climbed Mount Everest. Brewed his own kraut, kombucha and kefir. Been featured in Martha Stewart Living. Read More

What a week! See our favorite tweets, posts, videos and photos from #VU2015. Read More

If you’re funny, you don’t have to be perfect. That’s what senior Caroline Hatfield discovered in a research project about the cultural expectations by which female celebrities are judged compared to how society judges female comedians. Read More

In early September 2014, Ian Crozier, M.D.,’97, supervised the jet evacuation of a critically ill patient from Kenema, the epicenter of the raging Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. An exhausted Crozier told the medical team that he hoped he didn’t have to see them again. One week later, he did. Read More

From Commencement prep to College Signing Day to flowers, flowers and more flowers, these are our favorite #vandygram photos of the week. Read More

Holly Glass arrived at Vanderbilt feeling “weird and different.” She kept to herself her identity as a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Checking in four years later, things are entirely different. Read More

Ben Shane is not easily labeled, which is what makes him an ideal Curb Scholar. The motorcycle aficionado has described himself as “enjoying ancient Chinese poetry, modern American fiction and Taylor Swift.” Read More

For the past two years, honors psychology major Angela Mosley has studied racial and ethnic health disparities in the Southeast. Mosley knew she wanted to study the subject after taking professor David Schlundt’s course on health psychology. Read More