Memorial Service

A memorial reception for civil and environmental engineering professor James H. Clarke will be Saturday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m. in Featheringill Hall’s Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium. The reception is open to the Vanderbilt University community. Read More

A memorial service and reception for Christopher M. S. Johns, the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Fine Arts and professor of history of art and architecture, will be on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody College campus. Johns died May 8 following an extended illness. Read More

A memorial tribute for Vereen M. Bell, a beloved professor of English, emeritus, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 30, on Wilson Hall Terrace. The event, which will have limited seating, begins at 3 p.m. with a reception to follow at 4:30 p.m. Read More

A memorial service to honor the life of H. Carl Haywood, professor of psychology, emeritus, and an early director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 19, at Christ Church Cathedral, 900 Broadway, in Nashville. Read More

A memorial service for Luke Gregory, CEO of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, who died Friday, Oct. 18, will be held on Friday, Oct. 25, at West End United Methodist Church, 2200 West End Ave. Read More

A memorial service for graduate student Ziliang Zhang will be held in All Faith Chapel on Thursday, Dec. 6, beginning at 4 p.m. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing will celebrate the life and impact of longtime dean Colleen Conway-Welch on Monday, Nov. 12. Read More

A memorial service for Virginia Maxwell George will be Monday, Oct. 8, at the School of Nursing. Read More

A memorial service will be held for Nancy Ransom, founding director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt and a champion of women’s rights, education and gender equality. Read More

The Department of Biological Sciences will host a research symposium and memorial service in honor of Donna Webb on Thursday, Sept. 21. The professor of biological sciences and of cancer biology died May 15 at age 50. Read More

A memorial service for Professor Vivien Casagrande is planned for April 12 in Benton Chapel. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos shares his thoughts on Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando. Vanderbilt community members who wish to come together to remember the victims of the tragedy may do so at events held this week at the K.C. Potter Center and Benton Chapel. Read More

Members of the Vanderbilt community will gather Friday, March 18, to remember Owen Graduate School of Management student Taylor Force, who was killed March 8 in a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. The service is closed to the public, and because of limited seating in the chapel, priority will be given to members of the Owen School community and those who knew Force well. Read More

Vanderbilt University will establish the Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. Chair, to be awarded to a medical school faculty member who is a leader in diversity, in honor of the 1970 graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) who died earlier this month. Chancellor Nicholas S. Read More

Vanderbilt University will establish the Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. Chair, to be awarded to a medical school faculty member who is a leader in diversity, in honor of the 1970 graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who died earlier this month. Read More

A memorial service celebrating the life of Levi Watkins Jr., renowned cardiac surgeon, champion of racial equality and diversity, and the first African American to be admitted to and graduate from Vanderbilt's School of Medicine, will be held Thursday at Benton Chapel. Read More

Barbara Schulz A memorial service to celebrate the life of Barbara Schulz is planned for 7 p.m. Saturday, May 31, in Benton Chapel on the Vanderbilt campus. Schulz was a longtime staff member in the Vanderbilt General Counsel’s office, retiring in 2011 after 22 years of service. She died… Read More

A memorial celebration in honor of John and Marjorie Compton is planned for Saturday, June 14, at 5:30 p.m. in Benton Chapel on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

A memorial service for Robert D. Collins, M.D., will be held Saturday, Jan. 18, at West End United Methodist Church in Nashville. Read More

Please join in celebrating the life of Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences and a professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, on Monday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m., in Benton Chapel. Read More