Alumni
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Visual Arts: Molten Mysteries
Jose Santisteban—beads of perspiration glistening on his brow—rotates a long, thin metal tube tipped with a bubble of honey-colored molten glass inside a furnace that’s been heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. As African jazz plays in the background, Santisteban removes the pipe from the furnace, blows air into the glass… Read MoreJul 3, 2012
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements
Samar Ali, a Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Law School alumna, has been named international director for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Ali’s role includes overseeing TNTrade as well as the ECD’s other international initiatives, including managing four international offices. Carter (Vanderbilt) Erik Carter, associate professor of… Read MoreJun 27, 2012
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff and alumni’s latest awards, appointments and achievements
Yasmine S. Ali, assistant clinical professor of medicine, has been elected chair of the Tennessee Medical Association’s Young Physician Section and will serve as its representative to the TMA board. Conn (Vanderbilt) Jeffrey Conn, director of Vanderbilt’s Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, has won the first Tennessee Governor’s Award… Read MoreMay 30, 2012
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Vanderbilt Alumni Association elects new members
Seven new members have been elected to the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Board of Directors. Read MoreMay 29, 2012
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On Board: Brent Turner, MBA’99, charts a new course for alumni leadership
For a guy from Middle Tennessee, Brent Turner, MBA’99, sure uses a lot of nautical terms. That may be the impact of having lived near the Puget Sound in Seattle for the past 12 years, but his choice of words is fitting nonetheless. Turner is helping steer the future of… Read MoreMay 24, 2012
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Hosford featured in ‘Metamorphoses’ exhibition at Frist
Mark Hosford (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Works by four Nashville-area artists – including Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Art Mark Hosford and alumna Kristi Hargrove – will be on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Art’s Conte Community Arts Gallery June 8-Oct. 28. Metamorphoses,… Read MoreMay 18, 2012
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Stedman receives Vanderbilt University’s Peabody Distinguished Alumnus Award
Clinical and developmental psychologist Donald J. Stedman received Peabody's Distinguished Alumnus Award during Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 11. Read MoreMay 11, 2012
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Blair alumnus Chris Mann reaches finals on ‘The Voice’
Image courtesy of NBC. Chris Mann, a Blair School of Music alumnus, advanced to the finals on the NBC reality show The Voice May 2 after eight contestants were whittled down to four. Mann, a Wichita, Kan., native, put his degree in vocal performance to good… Read MoreMay 3, 2012
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Vanderbilt University Board of Trust approves four new members
Two business leaders in the field of private equity investment, a marketing executive and a graduating Ingram Scholar are the newest members of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust. Read MoreApr 20, 2012
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Abkowitz receives Alumni Education Award
Alumnus Thomas Conner (center) and Senior Associate Dean of Engineering Art Overholser (right) present the Vanderbilt Alumni Education Award to Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Mark Abkowitz on April 2. (image courtesy of Vanderbilt Alumni Association) Mark Abkowitz, professor of civil and environmental engineering, was… Read MoreApr 20, 2012
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Yunus challenges students to seek social change, not money
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus greets students during his campus visit April 2. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus challenged Vanderbilt students to create businesses in which helping people – not making a profit – is the ultimate goal. Yunus spoke to several student groups and… Read MoreApr 3, 2012
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Williams, others elected to Frist Board of Trustees
Gail Carr Williams (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt Associate Director of Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations Gail Carr Williams and others with ties to the university have been elected to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ Board of Trustees. In all, five accomplished community leaders were elected, and… Read MoreMar 23, 2012
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Law school alumna wins Athena Young Professional Leadership Award
Andrea Perry (image courtesy of Bone McAllester Norton) Andrea Perry, a 2000 Vanderbilt Law School graduate and a member at Bone McAllester Norton in Nashville, was honored with the 2012 Athena Young Professional Leadership Award. Perry’s candidacy for the award was sponsored by the Marion Griffin Chapter… Read MoreMar 19, 2012
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Kudos
Anilkumar (Vanderbilt) Amrutur Anilkumar, professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, and Sankaran Mahadevan, the John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering, have been elected associate fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Peter Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been appointed to… Read MoreMar 1, 2012
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Speaker of the House Beth Halteman Harwell, MS’79, PhD’80
Beth Halteman Harwell, one of the most powerful and politically connected women in the state of Tennessee, began her political profession in the classroom. Read MoreJan 24, 2012
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Law school alumna named pro bono volunteer of the year
Wendee Hilderbrand Nashville lawyer Wendee Hilderbrand, a 2004 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, was honored with the state’s top award for pro bono work at the Tennessee Bar Association’s recent public service luncheon. Held each year as part of the association’s leadership conference,… Read MoreJan 23, 2012
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Pressure Cooker: Bappa Mukherji, MBA’95, JD’95, is looking to bag the next big thing in the food industry
Ashoke “Bappa” Mukherji is no stranger to pressure. Soon after graduating from Vanderbilt with both an MBA and a law degree, he was thrust into one of the more challenging roles a budding young attorney could ask for—sitting second chair in a first-degree murder trial. It was his first trial… Read MoreNov 18, 2011
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Alumnus donates welding equipment to art department
Mel Ziegler (left) and Will Rigby with the new welding equipment. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Art/Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt’s Department of Art recently received a generous gift of welding equipment from Will Rigby, a Vanderbilt alumnus and the 2011 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Merit… Read MoreNov 17, 2011
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Valerie Kazmer Matena, BA’08, and the Spartan Death Race
I didn’t finish the race. Forty hours into the Death Race and a mere five hours from the end, I quit. In my four years as a Vanderbilt athlete, I had never failed to make it to the finish line. I had faced disappointment, failed to meet goals, even finished… Read MoreNov 12, 2011
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Quick response saves devoted Commodore football fan
A Vanderbilt alumnus and longtime football season ticket holder suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at Oct. 22’s game at Vanderbilt Stadium. Thanks to the quick response of Vanderbilt’s LifeFlight Event Medicine team and the presence of an automatic external defibrillator (AED), Jim Askew, 77, will be back in the stands… Read MoreOct 28, 2011