Frank Wcislo
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WATCH: Vanderbilt virtual event offers perspective on how Russia and Ukraine’s conflict could impact the world
As Russia unleashed an assault against Ukraine on Thursday, a panel of Vanderbilt experts brought context to the developments during a virtual event on the escalating conflict and its potential global implications. Read MoreFeb 25, 2022
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Enroll now in Vanderbilt’s Osher Lifelong Learning spring 2021 classes
Vanderbilt’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which helps mature adults rediscover the joy of learning in an inclusive community, offers a variety of courses this spring, including Alzheimer’s disease prevention, little-known Tennessee history, and jazz in the 1930s and ’40s. Read MoreFeb 15, 2021
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Wcislo receives 2015 Chancellor’s Cup
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos presented the 2015 Chancellor’s Cup to Associate Professor of History Frank Wcislo during a surprise ceremony Nov. 6 in Kirkland Hall, with many of Wcislo’s friends and colleagues from across the university in attendance. Read MoreNov 6, 2015
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Farewell to Wcislo: Looking back at the legacy of The Commons’ first dean
Seven years ago, The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons did not exist. Now, “The Commons” says goodbye to its inaugural dean, opening a new chapter in Vanderbilt history. “We all have to remember that before Dean Wcislo, no one had an idea what The Commons was, or could be,” said Professor… Read MoreApr 9, 2015
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Faculty Senate meeting minutes for October 2014 available online
Minutes from the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate’s Oct. 9 meeting are now available online on the Faculty Senate website. Read MoreNov 13, 2014
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Meet four fascinating historical characters at Saturday University
Hear fascinating stories about politicians, slaves, military leaders, executioners and diplomats from the pages of history this fall during Vanderbilt University’s Saturday University lecture series. Read MoreOct 2, 2014
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Wcislo stepping down as dean of The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons
Francis Wcislo, the dean who launched The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt University in 2006, has announced plans to step down from that role at the end of his current contract, June 30, 2015. Read MoreSep 11, 2014
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VUCast Extra: Move In 2014 – It’s anything but common
Vanderbilt's first-year students came from all over the country and the world to move into The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. Relive the magic of Move In 2014. Read MoreAug 16, 2014
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Vanderbilt professor awarded Roland H. Bainton Book Prize
Paul C.H. Lim, a Vanderbilt University religious historian, has received the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England. Read MoreOct 24, 2013
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VUCast Extra: Move In 2013
They came from all over the country and the world to move into The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. Watch as Vanderbilt's first-year students move in to start their living-learning experience. Check out tweets and images from Move In Day. Read MoreAug 17, 2013
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Excellence in undergraduate writing to be celebrated March 24
Vanderbilt will host its fifth annual Undergraduate Writing Symposium on March 24. The event is a forum for excellence in undergraduate writing of all kinds. Read MoreMar 15, 2013
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Professors get pies in the face for charity
Frank Dobson (left), director of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt and a faculty head of house at The Ingram Commons, received a pie to the face for charity Nov. 9. (Photo by Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) As a part of Disabilities Awareness Week, students were… Read MoreNov 12, 2012
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Writer David Maraniss to teach at Vanderbilt during spring 2013 semester
Famed writer David Maraniss will co-teach a course, Presidential Biographies, next semester, and also a Commons seminar for first-year students, Reading and Writing about Sports and American Life. Read MoreOct 30, 2012
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End of the Beginning
The Ingram Commons’ first class graduates First-year students and faculty heads of house gathered at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons in August 2008 for their first-ever class photo. The taking of a class photo each year has become an Ingram Commons tradition. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) On a bright spring day… Read MoreMay 1, 2012
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Student initiative trades side items for meals to feed hungry in Middle Tennessee
Will McCollum (left) and Mac Muir (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Two first-year students have teamed with Vanderbilt Dining for an innovative initiative to combat hunger in the Nashville community. Mac Muir and Will McCollum, who both reside in Hank Ingram House at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons,… Read MoreApr 30, 2012
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Four faculty named new heads of house at Ingram Commons
The Commons Center (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Four new faculty heads of house will join The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons in August 2012. A committee of faculty, students and staff chaired by Dean of The Ingram Commons Frank Wcislo reviewed 20 applicants with a broad… Read MoreApr 6, 2012
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Rethinking History
Frank Wcislo examines how we consider Russia and its leaders two decades after the Cold War Frank Wcislo, associate professor of history (John Russell/Vanderbilt) As Soviet Russia disintegrated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Frank Wcislo and other… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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Videos: Russia: Empire to Revolution
Watch videos of Frank Wcislo, Dean of The Commons and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, leading classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. This lecture series surveys the history of the Russian Empire from the 18th century, the height of its prominence, until the revolutions of 1917, the time… Read MoreOct 15, 2010
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Welcome class of 2014! See what’s so special about move-in day at The Commons!
We like to move it, move it! Vanderbilt student volunteers came out in full force to help the class of 2014 move into The Commons. Hear from students and parents on this exciting and emotional day. See photos from move-in » [vucastblurb]… Read MoreAug 24, 2010
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Older adults gear up for fall classes with Vanderbilt’s Osher Lifelong Learning
Media regulation in an ultra-wired society, the neurology of sleep, the Vietnam War, and great singers and their songs are among the diverse topics included in the fall term of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. All older adults with an interest in lifelong learning can sign up… Read MoreAug 4, 2010