Martha Ingram

The Martha Rivers Ingram Dean’s Chair, endowed in 2005 to support the position of the dean at the Blair School of Music, has been renamed the Mark Wait Dean’s Chair to honor the former dean and professor of music, who was at Blair from 1993 to 2020. Read More

Seven incoming first-year Vanderbilt University students have been named to the newest class of the Ingram Scholars Program. Read More

The Blair School of Music begins a new leadership era as it welcomes Lorenzo F. Candelaria as its new dean. Read More

Ten incoming first-year Vanderbilt University students have been named to the newest class of the Ingram Scholars Program. Read More

Daniel Diermeier, an internationally renowned political scientist and management scholar, has been elected Vanderbilt University’s ninth chancellor, Board of Trust Chairman Bruce Evans announced on Dec. 4. Read More

Nine incoming first-year students and two rising sophomores have been selected for the newest class of the Ingram Scholarship Program. They are among more than 1,200 students who applied for the prestigious merit scholarship program. Read More

Vanderbilt’s newest endowed chair holders were celebrated for their path-breaking scholarship and research by family members, donors, colleagues and friends during a Feb. 25 ceremony. Read More

Robin Ingram Patton was thanked for her significant investment in the E. Bronson Ingram College, which is named for her father, during a celebration of Vanderbilt's newest living-learning community. Read More

Ten years into his role as chancellor, Nicholas S. Zeppos has no plans to slow Vanderbilt’s rapid progress—and he wants to bring the rest of higher education along for the ride. Read More

Three Ingram family members are making gifts totaling $20 million to name Vanderbilt University’s newest College Hall in honor of their late father and former Board of Trust member, E. Bronson Ingram. Read More

Vanderbilt University has received a transformational $20 million gift from a donor-advised fund of alumnus and Board of Trust Vice Chairman-Elect Jeffrey Rothschild and his wife Marieke that will accelerate ongoing development of its residential colleges program, College Halls. Read More

The Vanderbilt Board of Trust has approved eight new members, including a former Posse Scholar and a graduating senior in the College of Arts and Science. Read More

Martha Ingram (John Russell/Vanderbilt) Nashville philanthropist and Vanderbilt Board of Trust Chairman Emerita Martha Ingram will be the next guest in Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt’s Stronger Arts/Stronger Cities series. Ingram will be interviewed on Thursday, May 15, at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt. The event… Read More

Vanderbilt University's Theatre Department will host "An Evening with Doug Wright," an award-winning playwright and Ingram New Works Fellow, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. Read More

More than 100 Ingram Scholars returned to campus Nov. 2 for the 20-year reunion of the program, which rewards Vanderbilt students for their dedication to combining a professional career with a lifelong commitment to finding solutions to critical societal problems. Read More

Bionics, time travel, Bono and, of course, cicadas are just some of the exciting stories that marked 2011 at Vanderbilt. Below are the year’s top 20 Vanderbilt news stories, in order of the number of views they each received on the Vanderbilt News Network. Read More

Ingram with Nicholas S. Zeppos (Vanderbilt University/Daniel Dubois) Martha Rivers Ingram, longtime patron of the Blair School of Music, will be honored for her 16 years of dedicated service and stewardship on the organization’s Board of Directors with a special concert. The program, which will include both… Read More

Having a baby is all about handling the unknowns; go inside a new reality TV series focusing on baby’s first day. Plus, get on the field with ‘Dores baseball coach Tim Corbin, and snazzy new digs are coming for Vandy students. [vucastblurb]… Read More

When Martha R. Ingram steps down June 30 after 12 years as chairman of Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust, she will leave behind a diverse and lasting legacy – including the hiring of two chancellors and the development of a residential college system at Vanderbilt, of which the newly named Martha Rivers Ingram Commons was the crucial first phase. Read More

The Vanderbilt Board of Trust has named the university’s living-learning community for first-year students for Martha R. Ingram. Read More