The Vanderbilt Story

It was a jam-packed week of excitement: More reaction from the new Class of 2017; celebrating the arrival of spring; celebrity sightings; and things got a little squirrely on April 1. [View the story "Our favorite Tweets and Instagrams of the week, March 30-April 5" on Storify]Our favorite… Read More

Regular Decision letters were mailed this week, and the excitement from the new class of ‘Dores – and their families, friends, and Vanderbilt alumni – was all over social media. Here are some of our favorite displays of Black & Gold pride. [View the story "Vanderbilt… Read More

Vanderbilt students talk about what they did over spring break 2013. Video by InsideVandy. Read More

Yep, we’ve been in a Billy Joel state of mind this week — video of his January appearance at Vanderbilt went viral in a big way this week. Some of our favorite Tweets about the piano man are below, along with favorites about Match Day and Peabody College. [… Read More

The Hustler caught up with alumnus Austin Bauman, owner of Green Fleet Hub, to hear about his career experience in the post-Vanderbilt world. Read More

Accessibility, inclusiveness and community made the difference for these students. Read More

The One Vanderbilt transformation continues as Nicholas S. Zeppos marks five years as chancellor. Read the story and watch video of Zeppos discussing the opportunities and challenges facing Vanderbilt today. 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… Read More

Four years ago Marc Panu walked on to Vanderbilt’s football team. He sweated through the sweltering summer training camp. He spent grueling hours lifting weights. He studied game plans and watched endless film. His reward was slow in coming. In 2009 he didn’t play at all. By 2010, though, the… Read More

Vanderbilt is proud to call Tennessee home. A new economic analysis released Feb. 21 finds the university and medical center had an $8.6 billion positive impact on the state in the last year. Read how folks on social media responded to the news below. What do YOU love… Read More

JAMES PATTERSON HAS SOLD MORE BOOKS WORLDWIDE THAN ANY AUTHOR DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS. NOW HE’S SET HIS SIGHTS ON CULTIVATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF READERS. Read More

Not long after he arrived at Vanderbilt nine years ago, Keivan Stassun, professor of astronomy, began building on a newly forged alliance with Fisk University, a historically black college just two miles from the Vanderbilt campus, in an effort to increase the number of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans… Read More

It’s 7 p.m. on a Wednesday evening, and Wyatt Smith is still in his classroom. The day started 12 hours ago, back when his green tie was firmly in place and his khakis were neatly pressed – before the classes, parent phone calls, and the three-hour Mandarin lesson for 13… Read More

Love was in the air at Vanderbilt this week. For Valentine’s Day, we asked our Twitter and Facebook friends if they fell in love at Vanderbilt. As it turns out, Vanderbilt’s played Cupid to quite a few people! Below are some of our favorite stories. Updated Feb. 18:… Read More

In 2011, Tennessee welcomed 1,236 refugees from 17 different countries, most of them settling in Nashville. As is true for the entire nation, the largest groups came from Bhutan, Burma and Iraq. All of them had in common, as the United Nations puts it, having fled their country and being… Read More

Mia Sharp Bransford, R.N., EMT, works as a nurse at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, helping injured and sick children in the Emergency Department. Usually, her work and dedication to treat children and patients is performed in the hospital. But the soft-spoken, friendly nurse unselfishly rose to the… Read More

Thomas H. Powell, EdD’82, currently in his 10th year as president of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmetsburg, Md., has led the nation’s second-oldest Catholic university to new heights. The school completed its first new residence hall in 30 years, built a new soccer and lacrosse stadium, a new baseball… Read More

A photograph of a smiling young man standing beside a gas pump at a Spur Gas station in Henderson, Ky., sits in the offices of Gigi Lazenby, BA’67, MBA’73. The year was 1931 and the young man—her father, Paul Banks Jr.—would eventually work his way to President of that same… Read More

Senior Valerie Hsu talks about her senior recital and the impact music has made upon her life. An InsideVandy Video by Carly Vaughn… Read More

The theme this week: Everyone wants to go to Vanderbilt. Whether waiting on acceptance letters or committing at Signing Day, it was a week full of school spirit. Below are just a few of our favorite Tweets and Instagrams of the week.   Be a part of the conversation: talk… Read More