Publications

Meet Megan Ward: the actress behind Vanderbilt Off-Broadway’s Elle Woods. Well known on campus as an improv comedian, Pi Phi President and VP of the Business Careers and Entertainment Club, she dons a blonde ‘do and pink heels for her starring performance this weekend. Amidst a crazy rehearsal schedule, the… Read More

Meet Danny: mechanical engineering, math and computer science triple major who speaks both Japanese and Russian, has been a committed intern at places like Microsoft and Twitter, and flaunts formerly pink, (but now bright green) hair. Read More

Just south of Denver, the vision for a futuristic development is coming to reality. The new community is called Sterling Ranch and Brock Smethills, BE’13, is the chief operating officer. In the next 20 years, the five-square-mile, $4.3 billion planned community will take shape as a futuristic city—and Vanderbilt students… Read More

The start of both the school year and football season had the Vanderbilt community sharing their tweets, posts and photos on social media. Read More

Steve Sanders ’78 loves the hills of eastern Kentucky, where he has spent his entire career advocating for people affected by the coal mining industry. Read More

Students who are the first in their families to graduate from college defy easy categorization. Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates at four-year colleges in the U.S. are the children of parents who did not attend college, transcending clear lines of race, geography and gender. And while the median household income of first-generation students tends to… Read More

You can see more of our favorite photos of the week on the Get Social website, and share yours by tagging them #vandygram. Photo by Instagram user @jasonbradley… 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

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

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

Oliver Luckett, BA’96, never saw it coming. When he stepped off the curb to cross the busy San Francisco street, the taxi cab was moving much too fast for him to react. And in the blink of an eye, his life was never the same. Read More

Seven years ago, The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons did not exist. Now, “The Commons” says goodbye to its inaugural dean, opening a new chapter in Vanderbilt history. “We all have to remember that before Dean Wcislo, no one had an idea what The Commons was, or could be,” said Professor… Read More

Even with his 50th birthday just around the corner, Mark Tillinger, BA’81, MBA’82, did not have a midlife crisis: He was too busy fighting for his life. Emerging on the other side of a cancer diagnosis and treatment, he sought opportunities to make small investments in the lives of others—with… 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

As singer Amy Grant figures it, there’s no greater blessing than being part of a community that cares, and the least she can do is take the light she has been given and shine it toward those who need it most. Read More

See all of our favorite photos – along with a round up of other Vanderbilt-related social media – on the Get Social website. Share your photos with the Vanderbilt community by tagging them #vandygram. Photo by @dmcarterlaw… Read More

After Emily White graduated from Vanderbilt in 2000 with a degree in fine arts, she headed straight for Silicon Valley. With stints at Google as employee No. 230, Facebook as director of mobile partnerships and Instagram as director of business operations, she settled in as the COO of Snapchat… Read More

GQ calls it “Nowville.” Time magazine has dubbed it “The South’s Red-Hot Town.” Indeed, these are heady times for Vanderbilt’s hometown, now one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities. The signs of ambitious new building projects are everywhere. In October the think tank City Observatory released a report identifying Nashville as second only to… Read More

Catalina Lizarralde—“Cata” to her friends—seems to operate at the accelerated pace of time-lapse photography. Or at least that’s how it can appear to those who, like Dean Eric Johnson, describe her as a powerhouse of energy and innovation. Read More

Ryan Williams is an entrepreneur, writer, and a former stand-up comedian. He hosts and produces a weekly podcast called “The Influencer Economy,” where he interviews entrepreneurs who have launched revolutionary ideas online. Williams graduated from Vanderbilt in 2000 with a B.A. in Human and Organizational Development. While at Vanderbilt, he… Read More