Students

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing student Molly Anne Lalonde will be a contestant on “Jeopardy” starting June 5. Read More

School of Engineering graduate student Alex Walsh has been selected to attend the 64th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, this summer. Read More

Moving away from friends and familiar faces. New classrooms, new campus, new city. A whirlwind of introductions and different student groups to join. For most students, these sensations only hit once: at the beginning of freshman year. But for transfer students, a new school means navigating the same set of… Read More

Sophomore Lina Granados has been invited by the Colombian Soccer Federation to be part of the U-20 Colombian Women’s National Team that will represent Colombia during the 2013 Bolivarian Games held in Peru this month. Read More

Pratik Talati, a student in the Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program, recently attended a White House Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Briefing on Suicide Prevention and Mental Health. He and a student from another institution were invited to learn about the Obama administration’s efforts to prevent suicide and to address mental health issues within the AAPI community. Read More

Travis Ladner, a third-year student at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has been selected for a 2013 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) student fellowship award. The award is presented to a medical student every year from a national pool of applicants. Read More

On Oct. 14, Vanderbilt students will finally join neighboring universities like Belmont and MTSU in providing opportunities for students to gain experience in the commercial music industry. Founded under the umbrella of Vanderbilt Student Communications is a new media enterprise: RVU Records, a record label and recording studio that will… Read More

What began in 2000 as an effort to fuse community service and academics has now evolved into a popular course in the Spanish department: Spanish for Oral Communication through Cultural Topics. To date, 695 undergraduates have taken Senior Lecturer Elena Olazagasti-Segovia’s Spanish 202 course, which focuses on connecting students to… Read More

The grand prize winner of the 2013 Global Education Office photo contest is a fun one: Nisha Khorasi’s “Making Camel Friends at the Great Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt.” Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is welcoming 452 new students who are pursuing either a Master of Science in Nursing, Doctor of Nurse Practice or Ph.D. in Nursing Science degree. Read More

Vanderbilt Student Government and a coalition of Vanderbilt student organizations are encouraging all those attending the university’s football season opener Aug. 29 to wear a “green dot” to emphasize shared responsibility in campus safety. Read More

Every year, the incoming class of first-year students gathers on The Ingram Commons lawn for a photo.  Zoom in to see an up-close look at the Class of 2017. You can download a high-res version of the photo on our flickr page. Read More

Two groups of Vanderbilt students from different disciplines of health care recently completed projects with a common goal: promoting interprofessional training for the next generation of health care professionals. Read More

First-year Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students were asked to feel the weight of responsibility as they donned their white coats in a ceremony July 26 in 208 Light Hall. Read More

All members of the university community with access to student education records will be required to participate in an important new university compliance training initiative. Read More

Vanderbilt student Megan Piphus has wowed the judges with her ventriloquism skills on the NBC television show "America’s Got Talent." Read More

Read about faculty, staff and student awards, appointments and achievements. Read More

Jesse Neugebauer, who graduates from Vanderbilt May 10 with Peabody College’s top undergraduate honor, the Founder’s Medal, knows what it’s like to overcome tough circumstances. His experience will serve him well as he prepares to work with students facing challenges of their own. Read More

As Commencement approaches, we asked six seniors to reflect: How has Vanderbilt provided new opportunities, given focus to your interests and prepared you for the future? Most importantly, what comes next? Read More

Aladine Elsamadicy (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) Aladine Elsamadicy says he didn’t feel singled out for his Egyptian heritage or Muslim faith while growing up in Alabama—not until Sept. 11, 2001, that is. He was in the fifth grade at the time. Elsamadicy and his siblings were suddenly more conspicuous at their… Read More