Vanderbilt Magazine

Vanderbilt students and alumni have always been an ambitious group. But three graduates and one current student have taken their passions to extreme levels. Read More

Vanderbilt's internationally acclaimed student rocket team has propelled many alumni into the science of spaceflight. Read More

Josie Earnest Barnes, BS’10, associate head coach of Vanderbilt's bowling team, offers tips to novice bowlers, rented shoes and all, on how to improve their scores. Read More

With David Williams’ retirement, a golden era of Commodore athletics ends. Read More

Scientists need to confirm whether life exists on Mars before sending humans, according to Professor of Astronomy David Weintraub. Read More

Learn how new programs in a revolutionary field are fostering discovery, collaboration and learning across campus. Read More

As the first day of fall approaches, learn more about the mural under Calhoun Hall's stone portico, which depicts all of the seasons on campus. Read More

Vanderbilt’s successful recruiting model finds student-athletes who excel both on the field and in the classroom. Read More

Two VU alumni are making waves in drug discovery by plumbing the oceans’ depths for new therapeutic molecules. Read More

Sirenas, a San Diego-based company founded by Vanderbilt alumni Eduardo Esquenazi, BS'98, and Jake Beverage, BA'98, is applying trailblazing methods toward drug discovery. Read More

Several Vanderbilt alumni are leading the way to ensure that solar is not just a feel-good energy source but an economically viable one as well. Read this feature from the latest issue of "Vanderbilt Magazine." Read More

The only public acknowledgement of the Rockefeller family's financial support of Vanderbilt is found in an unlikely venue: the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Read more from this story in the latest issue of 'Vanderbilt Magazine.' Read More

Before alumna Tiana Clark emerged as an electrifying new voice in poetry, before a flock of literary agents started calling, and before 'The New Yorker' magazine published her poem “Nashville” to acclaim last fall, she’d been stung so badly by rejection that she’d stopped writing for an entire year. Read more of the story from the latest issue of 'Vanderbilt Magazine.' Read More

When George Peabody College for Teachers first moved to its current location in 1914, across from Vanderbilt, no one talked about sustainability. Yet the idea became a centerpiece of the school’s mission to educate farmers, as well as to train the teachers who would educate the children of farmers. As a result, Peabody became the only teachers college in the United States to open a demonstration farm. Read More

In this exclusive story from the latest issue of 'Vanderbilt Magazine,' we look back on Nicholas S. Zeppos' first 10 years as chancellor—and hear his thoughts on Vanderbilt's trajectory for the future. Read More

Hulu’s chief marketing officer looks for heart at the intersection of entertainment and tech DANIEL BAXTER   Campbell As the ways we consume media continue to change, viewers have more choices than ever before. In 2012, Disney, NBC Universal (now Comcast) and 21st Century Fox banded together to… Read More

From Vanderbilt Magazine: James Crowe, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, hopes to create a universal flu vaccine--permanently eliminating the problem of ineffective or under-effective annual flu shots. Read More

Collado represents a distinct departure from earlier presidents at Ithaca. For one, she is the first person of color to head the college—in fact, she is the first Dominican–American in the history of higher education to lead any four-year institution. Read More

When she finally applied her "brain soup" technique to the human brain, Herculano-Houzel discovered we have an average of 86 billion neurons. Surprisingly, though, the neuron density is the same as in other primates, showing a clear evolutionary pattern from monkeys to humans. “We somehow manage to have this large brain with a large number of neurons; but it’s still just a regular primate brain,” says Herculano-Houzel. Read More

Professor of Law Ganesh Sitaraman believes the United States is facing a stark choice: Either continue along the current path of rising economic inequality and risk oligarchy, or rebuild the middle class and reclaim the republic that the Founding Fathers originally envisioned. Read More