Students

Former Vanderbilt All-American linebacker Jamie Duncan will return to campus this weekend to serve as grand marshal of the school's homecoming parade. Duncan, a seven-year veteran of the National Football League currently with the Atlanta Falcons, will participate in the campus parade Nov. 5, then attend the Vanderbilt-Florida game the afternoon of Nov. 6. Read More

Months of media coverage and campaigning, political ads and polling, debates and discussion--and it all comes down to this: a nail biter of an Election Day, when either incumbent President George W. Bush or Democratic challenger John Kerry will be elected to lead the country for the next four years. Vanderbilt students will share in the excitement. Read More

Members of CHEERS (Collegians Helping to Encourage and Educate Responsible Socializing), a student-based alcohol awareness organization at Vanderbilt University, will stage a mock drunk driving accident on the Vanderbilt campus on Thursday at 3 p.m. Read More

"Company," Stephen Sondheim's grown-up look at love and marriage, is the second production of the Vanderbilt University Department of Theatre's 2004-2005 season. Read More

Vanderbilt University students will gather Wednesday evening to watch the final and perhaps decisive presidential debate. Read More

In the aftermath of a deadly fire at a University of Mississippi fraternity house in August, Vanderbilt University officials have ordered all fraternity and sorority houses on its campus to install fire sprinklers. Read More

Before Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards square off next week in their only nationally televised debate, a delegation of Vanderbilt students will join peers from 14 other prominent universities for a mock political convention and debate at the same site. Read More

The digital music revolution has a new home at Vanderbilt University with the launch of VUmix, a comprehensive download service that will offer students and staff a safe, legal and inexpensive way to obtain and share music. Read More

When Vanderbilt's Dance Marathon committee began planning its February 2004 event last fall, the end goal was simple: to raise more money than it had the previous year, an amount of about $6,000. Dance Marathon 2004 far exceeded its goal by raising almost $50,000, a feat that earned it the Children's Miracle Network's "Most Improved Dance Marathon" award at its annual Dance Marathon Leadership Conference held July 23-25 in Atlanta. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development presented its Distinguished Alumnus Award to University of Texas at Austin professor O.L. Davis Jr. during commencement, Friday, May 14. Read More

The top students in each of Vanderbilt's nine undergraduate and professional schools were recognized with Founder's Medals during commencement exercises May 14. Read More

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice spoke to graduating seniors, rock band the B-52's performed, parents attended lectures and Chancellor Gordon Gee will deliver the commencement address on Friday as part of Vanderbilt University's expanded celebration of graduation activities May 12-14. Read More

Political science books fill one wall of Bruce Oppenheimer's office in Calhoun Hall at Vanderbilt University. Across the room, a comparatively tiny bookcase is stuffed with works like Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer and three videotape installments of HBO's When It was a Game. Read More

Engineers are known for making sure that all loose ends are tied up. For William Morrison, the one loose end was an unfinished master's degree in engineering at Vanderbilt University. Morrison will receive his degree May 14 not as a beginning to his career, but as a capstone. That's because at age 80, Morrison is finishing a degree he began when he was just 25. Read More

Two residents of Georgia are the newest members of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust. Read More

Owen Graduate School of Management student John Owens was named the 2004 winner of the Graduate Business Foundation Student Leadership Award at the foundation's annual conference last weekend in Ann Arbor, Mich. Read More

Families of children with and without autism are invited to take part in two new research projects at Vanderbilt University-a study of sleep in children and a study of social interest in children with autism and their brothers and sisters. Read More

Vanderbilt's student chapter of Amnesty International will host the Human Rights Festival Friday, March 26, from 5 to 8 p.m. on Alumni Lawn of the University's campus. Read More

For every future Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, high-powered magazine editor or trusted television news anchor, there is a humble beginning. For many, that beginning comes in the long hours put in at high school newsrooms and television studios learning the fundamentals of journalism. Read More

Fashion seems to permeate popular culture these days-be it the trend-setting frocks worn by the characters on the popular HBO series Sex and the City, or the many magazine pages devoted to the red carpet fashion of the recent Academy Awards. To an extent, the Vanderbilt campus is no different. Read More