9/11

Vanderbilt helped Deeg Sezna chase a dream. Through the Deeg Sezna Scholarship, family and friends work to honor the 9/11 victim’s memory by giving others the same opportunity. Read More

A study comparing 618 military veterans who deployed to a combat zone after Sept. 11, 2001, and 2,099 health care workers (HCWs) working during the COVID-19 pandemic found similar levels of potential moral injury (PMI), with 46.1% of veterans and 50.7% of HCWs reporting PMI. Read More

A study by Vanderbilt and New York City researchers found that 9/11 first responders to the World Trade Center have increased levels of mutations that escalate their risk for blood cancers or cardiovascular disease Read More

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier reflects on the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, in a video message to the Vanderbilt community. Read More

Vanderbilt University will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States with a memorial event planned for Alumni Lawn on Sept. 10 and an opportunity for reflection at Benton Chapel on Sept. 11. Read More

At noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, four chimes will sound from the bell tower of Kirkland Hall symbolizing the four crash sites and solemnizing both the tragedy and the extraordinary heroism that define Sept. 11, 2001, as a day of both loss and unity. Read More

At noon on Monday, Sept. 11, four chimes will sound from the bell tower of Kirkland Hall symbolizing the four crash sites and solemnizing both the tragedy and the extraordinary heroism that define Sept. 11, 2001, as a day of both loss and unity. Read More

The Interfaith Council, a leadership organization comprising Vanderbilt University students dedicated to interfaith relations , will commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Read More

At noon on Friday, four chimes will sound from the bell tower of Kirkland Hall symbolizing the four crash sites and solemnizing both the tragedy and the extraordinary heroism that define Sept. 11, 2001, as a day of both loss and unity. Read More

The Kirkland Hall bells will ring in a special pattern at noon on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Read More

From left to right, Bill Gibbons, Jason Deal, Mark Cate. Photo courtesy of the State of Tennessee. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s Chief of Staff Mark Cate and Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons were among several state officials to honor 24 individuals from across the state… Read More

Members of Vanderbilt ROTC, local fire and police and VUPD joined faculty, staff and students on Alumni Lawn for the 9/11 service. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Members of the Vanderbilt community gathered for a moment of silence, prayers and reflection on the 11th anniversary of the tragic events of… Read More

Former Navy Commander Paul Gonzales visited the Vanderbilt Virtual School to share his personal survival story. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) by Joan Brasher At Vanderbilt’s Virtual School, 9/11 was marked a day early with emotional presentations by a survivor of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Paul Gonzales, a… Read More

The Vanderbilt community created a remembrance tree on Alumni Lawn in the days following the tragedy of 9/11. (Vanderbilt) Gather on Sept. 11 to share in the remembrance of the tragedy eleven years ago. Meet at noon at the flagpole on Alumni Lawn. There will be an interfaith prayer,… Read More

(Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt University has been named a member with distinction to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Honor Roll “recognizes higher education institutions that reflect the values of exemplary community service and achieve meaningful… Read More

Vanderbilt leads the nation in a breakthrough drug study that may prevent type-1 diabetes! Plus, how studying the brain could impact criminal law. And a special tribute on the anniversary of 9/11. [vucastblurb]… Read More

An interfaith service of prayer, hope and remembrance was held at Benton Chapel Sunday afternoon. The event mirrored a service held 10 years ago on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, following terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Read More

LifeFlight will do a fly-over pending weather and its availability. Read More

Richard McGregor, associate professor of religious studies, Dana Nelson, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies, and Thomas Schwartz, professor of history, will examine “The 10-Year Shadow of 9/11: How Would America be Different Without It?” during a roundtable discussion Sept. 13. Read More

It has been a decade since the 9/11 terrorists attacks, in which more than 3,000 people died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. But time has not fully healed the wound: Don’t we all remember where we were that day? The View invited members of the Vanderbilt community to share their stories, and we have captured a few of them here. Read More