Vanderbilt Administration

Beth Fortune, associate vice chancellor for public affairs at Vanderbilt University, will serve as interim head of Vanderbilt\'s Division of Public Affairs beginning June 1, announced Interim Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. Read More

Michael Schoenfeld, Vanderbilt University\'s chief communications, government and community relations officer and spokesman for more than a decade, will leave at the end of the academic year to become the vice president for public affairs and government relations at Duke University in North Carolina, effective July 1. Read More

Donna L. Pavlick has been named director of academic programs and registrar of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

The computing revolution comes with a not-often acknowledged environmental cost. Computers - and the servers which allow them to run - use energy and give off heat. Then they have to be cooled down, using more energy. Read More

"A university that is aloof from its campus and the community cannot thrive and survive," Interim Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos said about the importance of "town-gown" relationships and the work of the university‘s new Center for Nashville Studies. While Zeppos talked about future Vanderbilt efforts that will impact Nashville on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at The Commons, the evening‘s other speaker - the Rev. James Lawson, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt - reflected on his past as a civil rights leader and the role and responsibility universities have had and must continue to have in creating positive change in their local communities and beyond. Read More

Vanderbilt University leaders will discuss the school‘s storied, and sometimes complicated, relationship with the Nashville community at a public event, Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. Read More

Robert S. Rowe, who guided the Vanderbilt School of Engineering in the 1960s from a mostly technical training unit to one that offered graduate degrees and whose faculty engaged in advance research, died Nov. 3, in Sebring, Fla. He was 87. Read More

Vanderbilt University received 11 MidSouth Regional Emmy nominations in the Advanced Media categories, marking the first time the university has been recognized in the competition for the highest honor in television. Read More

Mark Johnson, chief information security officer at Vanderbilt University, was recently named the recipient of the Information Security Executive (ISE) National Awards in the academic category for outstanding leadership,contributions and innovative approaches to information security. Read More

Venerable film director Delbert Mann, a Vanderbilt graduate and Emeritus Trustee at Vanderbilt, is dead at 87. Read More

Douglas Christiansen is Vanderbilt University's associate provost for enrollment and dean of admissions. He's spent the last 20 years in admissions leadership roles in both public and private universities. Now he‘s using his expertise to give students practical advice on what they can do to get into the right college, in hopes of clearing some of the mystery and misconceptions surrounding the admissions process. Read More

Cindy Funk has been named director of the Vanderbilt University Career Center (VUCC). Funk was hired as associate director in July 2006 and became the acting director a year later. Read More

A special ceremony celebrating Vanderbilt staff with 20 - 45 years of service took place Sept. 26. Read More

Walter R. Murray, Jr., spent his life inspiring, leading and serving his community and others, becoming one of Vanderbilt's most celebrated African American alumni. Tuesday Vanderbilt named one of the new Commons residence halls in his honor and held the first Walter Murray Jr. Memorial lecture. Read More

The National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) has chosen Jerry Fife, assistant vice chancellor for research finance at Vanderbilt University, to receive its 2007 Distinguished Service Award. Read More

Vanderbilt University is the first university in the state to be recognized for environmentally friendly construction by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. Read More

Vanderbilt University made the top 20 list for the fifth consecutive year in rankings released Friday of the best national universities as selected by U.S. News & World Report. Read More

Sidney F. Boutwell, the architect of much of what constitutes modern student life at Vanderbilt, died Aug. 9 in Springfield, Mo. He was 74. Read More

Education and child development experts from the Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development are available for back-to-school interviews. Peabody College was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 3 education school in the nation in 2007. Read More

Centennial Professor of Psychology Randolph Blake has been named chief of staff for the committee that will conduct the search for Vanderbilt's eighth chancellor. Read More