Podcast

For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can hear tapes of Robert Penn Warren's 1964 interviews with prominent Civil Rights activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and the Rev. James Lawson. The interviews were conducted for Warren's book "Who Speaks for the Negro?" and this project was made possible with the cooperative efforts of the Vanderbilt, Yale and University of Kentucky libraries. Read More

Listen to podcasts from the Food Security Summit, which addressed many of our region's most pressing issues -- including hunger, poverty, obesity, land use, development and the depletion of natural resources -- through their connection to food. Read More

Accomplishments will flow naturally from the talents, training and motivation of Vanderbilt graduates, said Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Vanderbilt Commencement ceremony on Friday. Happiness is a trickier proposition, he said, and offered some guidance on how to achieve it. (Video and audio of address included). Read More

Listen to podcasts from a Jan. 24 panel discussion on "Greening Vanderbilt: Find Out What Vanderbilt Is Doing." Read More

Listen to students who traveled to India in 2007 as part of a Vanderbilt program to alleviate poverty. Graham Reside, executive director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions, speaks and introduces several students who reflect on the Project Pyramid program that brought together the divinity and business schools at Vanderbilt. Read More

Listen to Luca Barattoni, lecturer of Italian at Clemson University, speak on "Fernando Di Leo and the Italian Crime Thriller Genre of the '70s: Its Influence on Quentin Tarantino and its Recent Developments." The lecture on Jan. 24, 2008, was part of the International Lens foreign film series at Vanderbilt. Read More

Gordon Gee will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt University's chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990 to 1997. His resignation is effective Aug. 1. Read More

Chancellor Gordon Gee likened the 2007 graduating class of Vanderbilt University to superheroes with limitless potential and the burden of great responsibilities. Read More

Vanderbilt students should help create a world where museums have exhibits on poverty because it is a thing of the past, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Vanderbilt alumnus Muhammad Yunus told graduating seniors on Thursday as part of Senior Class Day. Read More

Listen to sociologist Jill Quadagno\'s lecture about the political, economic and historical reasons behind America\'s lack of a national health insurance program. Read More

Listen to sociologist Jill Quadagno's lecture about the political, economic and historical reasons behind America's lack of a national health insurance program. Read More

Listen to Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, discuss whether nature can be evil and what philosophers have had to say about the issue over the centuries. Read More