Students

A week after Vanderbilt University began admitting students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, approximately 100 students from Gulf Coast colleges and universities had registered for classes. Vanderbilt Medical Center now has treated more than 70 Gulf Coast evacuees, hospitalizing more than 20, and its LifeFlight reserve helicopter and fixed wing aircraft and their medical teams continue to assist in disaster relief and patient transport out of the region. Read More

Before they even pick up their keys this weekend to their new "home" away from home, Vanderbilt University freshmen can "surf the net" on their laptops via wireless network access — in campus parking lots, no less. Read More

Vanderbilt University's campus will be a hub of activity next week as upperclassmen return to campus and incoming freshmen prepare to step on campus for the first time as official students. In anticipation of the start of classes on Aug. 24, the university will host a variety of activities to welcome new and returning students and introduce new students to campus life. Read More

Ninety students, faculty and interns studying or working in London this summer were accounted for and unharmed on Thursday after attacks on the city‘s public transportation system. Read More

The leading graduates in each of Vanderbilt‘s nine undergraduate and professional schools were recognized by Chancellor Gordon Gee with Founder‘s Medals during the university‘s commencement exercises May 13. Read More

Three graduates from Vanderbilt‘s School of Nursing overcame tough odds to earn their degrees. They are available to share their stories as Vanderbilt observes commencement exercises May 13. Read More

A member of the hit country band Little Texas aims to combine his loves of music and science to promote science education after graduating with a master‘s degree in Communication of Science, Engineering and Technology from Vanderbilt University. Read More

Though university classes have wrapped for the summer, Vanderbilt junior Star Wallin won‘t be taking a hard-earned break. She will spend her vacation at separate events honoring the nation‘s Truman and Udall scholars, as well as working at the Jane Goodall Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read More

Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and rock ‘n‘ roll legend Little Richard will help send off the 130th class at Vanderbilt University this month, with commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 13, capping three days of celebration. Read More

William M. Wilson, a Nashville businessman and Vanderbilt alumnus, and Carrie Colvin, a member of the Class of 2005 from Birmingham, Ala., are the newest members of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. Colvin and Wilson were elected at the board‘s spring meeting on April 29. Read More

Vanderbilt University has been awarded the 2005 Tennessee Pollution Prevention Partnership Green Schools Award for recycling by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Read More

Members of Expressions, the Vanderbilt Community Outreach Partnership Center‘s after-school dance program for local teens, will perform "FUSION" April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Tennessee State University‘s Recital Hall. Read More

There aren‘t many people who can pull a fighter jet weighing more than 14,000 pounds 47 feet in 60 seconds. There aren‘t many people who have a 3.1 grade point average with a major in chemical engineering. There aren‘t many men, much less women, who can claim to have accomplished both difficult feats. Vanderbilt University Junior Kara Mann has achieved both and is a strong woman in every sense of the word as she defies stereotypes on a daily basis. Read More

A record high 11,628 students sought admission to Vanderbilt University‘s fall 2005 freshman class, while fewer than 4,000 of them actually received letters of acceptance, making admissions for the Class of 2009 the most selective in the university‘s history. Read More

Vanderbilt‘s new Student Life Center, which celebrated its grand opening March 30, features a piece of artwork by Los Angeles-based sculptor Bruce Gray. Read More

Tom Wolfe, author of the critically acclaimed works "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff," will speak at Vanderbilt University on Monday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Vanderbilt will celebrate the grand opening of its new Student Life Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house Wednesday, March 30, followed by a series of events through April 2. Read More

Al Sharpton, Ann Coulter and Howard Dean will participate in question-and-answer sessions with the press before their sold-out lectures March 21-22. Read More

The first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi, will speak at Vanderbilt University‘s Senior Class Day on Thursday, May 12, at 10 a.m. on Alumni Lawn. Read More

A bipartisan program called Congress to Campus will bring former national lawmakers James Broyhill and Butler Derrick to Vanderbilt March 17-18 to meet with students and faculty. Read More