Events

Melanie Lowe, assistant professor of Musicology, lectured on the role of classical music in in our culture today. Lowe also teaches courses in American popular music, gender and sexuality in music, and music and American politics. Read More

Melanie Lowe, assistant professor of Musicology, lectured on the role of classical music in in our culture today. Lowe also teaches courses in American popular music, gender and sexuality in music, and music and American politics. Read More

John Geer, professor of political science, and Roy Neel, visiting professor of political science, discuss the intricacies of the 2008 presidential election. Read More

John Geer, professor of political science, and Roy Neel, visiting professor of political science, discuss the intricacies of the 2008 presidential election. Read More

James Crowe, M.D., is a Vanderbilt professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology. Crowe discussed the concerns associated with possible influenza pandemic. Read More

Vanderbilt graduates spent May 10, 2007 with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus. Watch the video of Senior Day 2007. Read More

Four Gray Line buses idle noisily at the curb by Branscomb Quadrangle as the sun slowly rises over a sleeping Greek Row. A group has quietly gathered on the steps out front -- a mix of students, faculty and staff -- shouldering overnight bags and sipping cups of coffee while members of the media prepare to capture their departure. Read More

Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff retraced the 1961 Freedom Rides with some of the original Freedom Riders as they traveled to Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala. Among the participants was Congressman John Lewis, Diane Nash, Bernard Lafayette, the Rev. C.T. Vivian, Jim Zwerg, John Seigenthaler and the Rev. James Lawson. More than four decades after being expelled from the university for helping fight segregation in Nashville, Lawson returned to Vanderbilt as a Distinguished University Professor. Read More