Alumni

As steward of Vanderbilt's arboretum, University Landscape Architect James Moore works not only to beautify campus and preserve its botanical diversity, but also to study the resilience of campus trees to disease and better understand how they absorb heat and stormwater for midtown Nashville. Read More

A poem by Bryan Byrdlong, BA'15 Read More

The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have announced the Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for 2022-23, with a record 20 Vanderbilt University students and alumni winning the prestigious awards. In addition to the 20 new Fulbright Scholars, four Vanderbilt seniors have been selected as alternates and 32 students and alumni earned recognition as semifinalists. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School Board of Advisors member W. Weldon Wilson, JD’86, and his wife, Elaine, have documented a $17.5 million bequest to support their existing Weldon Wilson Scholarship at Vanderbilt Law School. The scholarship was established in 2011 in honor of Weldon’s 25th reunion. Read More

Vanderbilt alumna Martha Craig Daughtrey, BA’64, JD’68, a senior United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, will be featured at an upcoming event in the Nashville Public Library’s Votes for Women: Legacy of the 19th Amendment series. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Board of Trust elected Tim Warnock, BA’84, to a two-year term as alumni trustee at its April 22 meeting. Warnock, an attorney at Loeb & Loeb in Nashville, is the outgoing president of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board. Read More

In his long U.S. Navy career, Michael Brasseur, BS'97, has had numerous command postings, including his latest as a full commodore. Based in Bahrain, he commands Task Force 59, the Navy’s first unmanned task force dedicated to securing the waters around the Arabian Peninsula. He directs a team dedicated to rapidly harnessing the power of unmanned and artificial intelligence integration to promote the free flow of commerce in the area. Read More

Nearly 200 alumni and parent volunteers returned to campus April 1–2 for the annual Volunteer Leadership Weekend. The weekend’s theme, Vanderbilt in Classroom, Community and Conversation, was designed to give university volunteer leaders an inside view of changes underway at Vanderbilt and to provide firsthand insights from university leaders, faculty and students about how these initiatives improve the educational experience.   Read More

The late David Williams II, who, as vice chancellor, dramatically elevated the student-athlete experience at Vanderbilt while leading the athletic department, and Toby Wilt, a former student-athlete and now successful businessman, golfer and philanthropist, will be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, the organization announced Friday. Read More

Mark F. Dalton, JD’75, emeritus trustee and former chair of the Board of Trust, has established the Dalton Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Laboratory Fund to support the university's rocket team, winners of an unprecedented seven NASA Student Launch national championships in 10 years. Read More

The next installment of the ’Dores in Dialogue series will explore decades of the Vanderbilt Black experience through the lens of alumni memories, current student life and new leadership initiatives for the future. The Feb. 10 event is presented by the Vanderbilt Alumni Association in partnership with the Association of Vanderbilt Black Alumni. Read More

Photography by Marc Olivier Le Blanc The opening poem in Focal Point, the debut collection by Jenny Qi, BA’11, navigates the fraught emotional space between a loving daughter’s grief over her mother’s death and a scientist’s clear-eyed inquiry into the disease-cancer-that caused it. Qi writes of “nights at a microscope in… Read More

Photos by Richard CartwrightIllustrations by Michelle Pereira Cinematographer Alicia Robbins, BS’01, never planned on working behind the scenes. At Vanderbilt, she aspired to a career in broadcast journalism, appearing in spots for Vanderbilt Television and taking every class related to television and film she could find. Everything changed when her… Read More

Ideator, a highly rated program designed to help faculty, students and staff members from Nashville-area colleges and universities evaluate promising ideas, has been endowed by Eric Sullivan, CEO of Quantum Technology, and his wife, Teri Steele, in honor of their family. Read More

Vanderbilt has launched a new alumni affinity group for Vanderbilt’s Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, supporting the diaspora and beyond. The AAPI Association of Vanderbilt Alumni (AAVA) aims to connect alumni with one another as well as with current students and the broader Vanderbilt community.   Read More

Join taste experts, scientists and a Nashville chef to learn about the science behind flavor in a virtual event on Monday, Jan. 31, at noon CT. Read More

The School of Medicine has launched a $5 million Dean’s Scholarship Challenge to help ensure that tomorrow’s leaders in medicine are educated at Vanderbilt. Through a combination of donor contributions and a university match, the school hopes to raise a total of $10 million. Read More

A trailblazing attorney, a celebrated sports journalist unafraid to ruffle feathers, a gifted storyteller and communications innovator at Vanderbilt University, an entrepreneur whose interest in media and data fueled success in business, and a sportswriter-turned-investigative producer are the latest inductees in the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame. Read More

Jon Parrish Peede, BS’91, former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, reflects on his respect for the late Vereen Bell. Read More

Startup fostered at Vanderbilt earns accolades as it reimagines cybersecurity. Winning these awards earned the team $750,000 from the U.S. Air Force and $25,000 with mentorship from JPMorgan Chase leadership. Read More