Distinguished Alumnus

Four Vanderbilt alumni who devoted their lives to ministry, scholarship and social justice issues have been recognized as the 2023 Vanderbilt Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion Distinguished Alumni/ae. Read More

Two business leaders and a retired Navy vice admiral will join the School of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Alumni, and two business professionals associated with the school have been named a distinguished friend of the school. They will be recognized in an induction ceremony at the April 20 Engineering Celebration Dinner. Read More

The Vanderbilt Alumni Association has named H. Rodes Hart as recipient of the 2018 Vanderbilt University Distinguished Alumnus Award. The honor is the highest bestowed upon a member of the university’s alumni community. Read More

A public celebration of the life of Vanderbilt alumnus Perry Wallace, who integrated Vanderbilt athletics and SEC varsity basketball, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Feb. 19 at Benton Chapel. Read More

Fred Craddock, who became an extraordinary preacher, writer and mentor to his students after earning his doctorate from Vanderbilt's Graduate School of Religion in 1964, has died. Read More

Muhammad Yunus, Phd‘71, and the 1996 Vanderbilt Distinguished Alumnus, was an inspiring keynote speaker during the fifth annual Global Social Business Summit. After Vanderbilt, Yunus began his active work to fight poverty in Bangladesh by issuing microcredit loans to the poor, eventually creating the Grameen Bank. Yunus and the bank… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development bestowed its 2013 Distinguished Alumnus Award on educational psychologist Robert H. Bruininks during Commencement on May 10. Read More