Vanderbilt Administration

Randall W. Smith, a Vanderbilt graduate and major fundraiser for the school\'s Shape the Future comprehensive fundraising campaign, has been named an executive associate vice chancellor for Development and Alumni Relations. Read More

The U.S. Senate early this morning confirmed the nomination of Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt professor of political science and law, to the National Council on the Humanities. The appointment is for a six-year term. Read More

Vanderbilt University has released a version of its homepage specially designed for the iPhone. Visitors can view the site by going to www.vanderbilt.edu on an iPhone or to www.vanderbilt.edu/iphone on a traditional Web browser. Read More

Vanderbilt\'s eighth chancellor promised "my hardest work" and reflected about the journey of his family from Greece to America as he addressed the entire Vanderbilt community for the first time as chancellor, instead of interim chancellor. Read More

Watch video of the celebration of the selection of Nicholas S. Zeppos as the university's eighth chancellor during a special open house Monday, March 10, at the Student Life Center. Read More

Vanderbilt will celebrate the selection of Nicholas S. Zeppos as the university\'s eighth chancellor during a special open house Monday, March 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Student Life Center. Read More

Vanderbilt University is rolling out a new and more robust emergency notification system beginning March 3 called AlertVU. It will replace the current emergency notification system MobileVU. Read More

Nicholas S. Zeppos, a distinguished legal scholar, teacher and administrator who has been a vital presence on the Vanderbilt University campus for two decades, was chosen March 1 as the university\'s eighth chancellor, effective immediately. Read More

The eighth chancellor of Vanderbilt University will be available to speak with media at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 1, in the second floor lobby of Kirkland Hall. Read More

Fourteen incoming freshmen have been chosen as the newest members of the Ingram Scholarship program. The 14 are among more than 700 high school seniors who applied, the largest number of applicants in the scholarship program\'s 14-year history. Read More

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