Students

Vanderbilt University will welcome the Rev. Al Sharpton, Ann Coulter and Howard Dean to its 41st annual Impact Symposium March 21-23. Read More

Vanderbilt University‘s Alternative Spring Break program, one of the largest in the nation, will send 460 students to 39 volunteer sites across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Guatemala when the university observes Spring Break March 7-11. Read More

Robert Stutman, a 25-year veteran of the national Drug Enforcement Agency, will address the Vanderbilt community on the dangers of even casual drug use in a talk titled "What Did I Take? The Truth Behind Ecstasy, Coke and Other Drugs" on Monday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema. Read More

In only three years, Vanderbilt‘s Dance Marathon has become one of the university‘s most-anticipated annual events among students. The 14-hour overnight gathering, featuring live music and performances, games, food and — of course — dancing, will attract more than 400 students from some 40 organizations across campus when it convenes Friday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. Read More

In 1989, Robert Egger abandoned his dream of opening a night club in favor of opening a soup kitchen to feed the homeless, and the DC Central Kitchen was born. Egger will talk about his experiences in the non-profit sector on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at Vanderbilt. Read More

The Barber of Seville, a landmark play of class consciousness and madcap slapstick, will debut Friday, Feb. 18, at Neely Auditorium on the campus of Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University will make Vanderbilt "better and bigger in spirit," said Chancellor Gordon Gee, capping an evening of music, art and celebration to mark the center‘s rededication. Read More

The family of Vanderbilt student-athlete Kwane Doster is expected to attend an on-campus memorial service Friday to celebrate the life of the former Commodore football player. Read More

The fathers of three members of the Vanderbilt football squad have established a memorial fund to assist the family of Kwane Doster, the Commodore standout who was killed early Dec. 26 in Tampa, Fla. Read More

Vanderbilt University student-athlete Kwane Doster, well known to Commodores fans as a game-breaking running back for the football squad, tragically died early Sunday from injuries sustained in a shooting in his hometown of Tampa, Fla. Read More

A new program at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will see to it that undergraduates who may be lacking a business degree aren't also lacking the business skills they need to succeed early in their careers. Read More

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