Students

Vanderbilt sophomores Henry Manice and Wil Keenan‘s two-month trip to Uganda last summer changed lives — theirs and the lives of many Ugandan artisans and children. 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

It seems these days young people can‘t live without their cell phones, iPods, laptops, gaming systems and especially television. A Vanderbilt professor is putting that theory to the test. Read More

Leftover vegetable oil from Vanderbilt Dining Services will be turned into biodiesel fuel, if a student team wins a national competition for a $25,000 grant to fund campus-based environmental projects. Read More

Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos will talk about her battle with anorexia Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read More

There will be a lot of drama on the Vanderbilt University campus each day at high noon during the week of Jan. 22. Read More

Monica Gibson, a Vanderbilt University graduate student working on her master‘s in public policy at Peabody College, has been offered an internship at the U.S. mission to UNESCO in Paris. She will be one of two American interns serving this spring. Read More

Ask most faculty, administrators, staff and students if they are interested in helping students succeed in college and the answer is likely to be a resounding yes. Ask them what exactly they mean by student success and the answer will probably be much more muddied. Read More

The good news for NFL players who sustain an injury to their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is that they‘ll likely play again in the NFL. The bad news is, they‘ll return with diminished performance on the field, concludes a study in the December issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt chemists whose work could make the light bulb pass√à and cut electricity consumption by half are among the recipients of Popular Mechanics magazine‘s 2006 Breakthrough Awards. Read More

A team of students from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management won first place at the 11th annual International Case Competition Nov. 10-11 at Carnegie Mellon University‘s Tepper School of Business. Read More

A Vanderbilt student has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to study in England.John Jumper hopes for placement at the University of Cambridge, where he would use the scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics. The senior in the College of Arts and Sciences has already taken enough of the graduate curriculum in physics to gradate with a master‘s degree. Read More

An international student adviser and a professor from Vanderbilt University were awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2006-07 academic year, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Read More

Vanderbilt University students are hosting a "mini marathon" event Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 3 p.m. to generate excitement about and participation in Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run fundraising event held each February. Money raised through Dance Marathon benefits the Children‘s Miracle Network, which directly benefits local network member the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt ranks fourth among the nation‘s top universities in the percentage of African Americans who make up the current freshman class, according to a survey by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Read More

Watch video by Vanderbilt\'s student video bloggers Brittany Adkins and Kris Bahlke about The Commons, a new residential living experience which will bring together all first-year students in a community of 10 residence halls to be known as "houses" on Vanderbilt\'s Peabody College campus. Read More

Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos will talk about her battle with anorexia Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read More

Muhammad Yunus, who earned a Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University in 1971, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work combating poverty through a bank that gives small loans to poor people. Read More

Twenty-nine high school bands from as far as New York state will converge on Vanderbilt University's Dudley Field Saturday, Oct. 7, for the 18th annual Vanderbilt Marching Invitational. Read More