Students

Read a selection of profiles of some of the stellar members of the Class of 2008. Read More

Palmer Harston was on a spring break trip visiting relatives in Nashville when her family was involved in a terrible car wreck. Eight-year-old Palmer was airlifted to Vanderbilt Children\'s Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgeries to save her life and was a patient for months. Her injuries left her confined to a wheelchair. Years later, her memories of the life-saving treatment she received at Vanderbilt led her to apply for college here. Read More

La Chureca, the city dump on the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua, could be the setting for a dreary, futuristic movie. A city of scavengers, many of them orphans, they live in the filthy heaps of refuse at this municipal garbage dump. Clothed in rags, they rummage for food, scrounging out a meager existence by selling the small trinkets or recyclables they find, or sometimes selling their own bodies to survive. Read More

Vanderbilt University is partnering with Google to offer its undergraduate students Gmail, Google\'s e-mail offering. The service will be launched in early summer. Read More

On the first day of what would have been her senior year at Vanderbilt, Mary Cady Ford had a baby. Ford\'s Chi Omega sorority sisters crowded into her hospital room, shrieked with delight and brought an avalanche of cute Baby Gap outfits. Baby Caroline\'s godfather, a fellow student, came by with a copy of the student newspaper. Then everyone went back to class and Ford was left to face a new reality: She was a new mother just one year shy of graduation. Read More

Vanderbilt University senior engineering students are challenged to solve real-world design issues for corporate sponsors during a two-semester design course. Students will share results with their clients and the Vanderbilt community at Senior Design Day, April 22, from 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Read More

Vanderbilt engineering grad Brad Jaeger will be behind the wheel of Doran Racing\'s Kodak Ford Doran/Dallara at this weekend\'s Mexico City 250, part of the Rolex Sports Car Series season. Jaeger is co-driver with Memo Gidley, who won this race in 2005. Read More

There will be some drama going on April 22 at Vanderbilt University as the second annual Vanderbilt Student Film Festival ñ "Vandy Gets Reel" ñ showcases films by Vanderbilt students and faculty and features Oscar-nominated filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert. Read More

Students studying Japanese will have a chance to test their chops April 12 at Tennessee\'s first-ever Japanese Speech Contest. The event will take place April 12 from 12:15 to 6:30 p.m. at Wilson Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus. It is free and open to the public. Read More

All four students recommended by the faculty and staff of Vanderbilt University have been selected as 2008 Goldwater Scholars. Each will receive a two-year scholarship worth $7,500 a year for educational expenses. Read More

One of 12 senior Vanderbilt artists will receive a $25,000 grant to travel, study and work following graduation at an exhibit at Vanderbilt University on Friday, April 11. Read More

Vanderbilt University sent out letters of acceptance last week to the most academically talented, diverse and international class in the school\'s history. Read More

Student concert committee Nashville in Our Living Room hosted its first concert March 26 in the atrium, affectionately known on campus as "the living room," in the university\'s new Commons Center. The event featured Nashville-based singer/songwriters Sara Beck and Audrey Spillman. Read More

Student concert committee Nashville in Our Living Room hosted its first concert March 26 in the atrium, affectionately known on campus as "the living room," in the university's new Commons Center. The event featured Nashville-based singer/songwriters Sara Beck and Audrey Spillman. Read More

Carl E. Wieman from the University of British Columbia who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of a new state of matter will give a free public lecture on the future of science education. Read More

Ever wanted to have a concert right in the comfort of your own living room? Some Vanderbilt University students did and now they are inviting the Vanderbilt and Nashville communities to come on over. Read More

Some of the world\'s most well known civil rights leaders and fighters for social justice - such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and folk singer Pete Seeger - have visited and trained at The Highlander Research and Education Center, a 75-year-old hub for grassroots organizing and movement building. This month, aspiring activists of a new generation - students from Nashville area universities - will add their names to this legendary list. Read More

Vanderbilt University engineering students will be putting their imaginations to work in some fun and surprising ways as they compete in a series of challenges celebrating National Engineers Week (E-Week) February 18-23. Read More

Vanderbilt University students will hold a presidential caucus Friday, Feb. 1, in advance of what has been dubbed "Super Duper Tuesday." Read More

The percentage of African Americans in the freshman class at Vanderbilt University increased 12.3 percent in the fall of 2007, placing Vanderbilt fourth among the highest-ranking universities in the United States. Read More