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The robot revolution is coming, and it’s time to pick a side. This spring, the Department of Theatre presents Я.U.Robot, an adaptation of Karel Čapek’s 1920s science fiction play R.U.R. about a future where synthetic workers are mass-produced to serve humanity. The concept was chosen by Professor of Theatre and the… Read More

Julia “Jules” Ashworth (class of 2026) fell in love with the French language at an early age, when she took her first French class in the third grade. She continued to study French up until middle school, when she was required to take Spanish, but then re-enrolled in French as… Read More

When physics and astronomy Ph.D. candidate Oem Trivedi was growing up in India, he had big dreams: becoming a wrestler in the World Wrestling Entertainment industry. Trivedi admits that as a kid he was not the best student; his parents were often called to the school for his behavior, as… Read More

William McLaughlin starts his day at 7 a.m. with a cup of coffee. Photo by Liz Chagnon/Vanderbilt University A Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, he likes to keep his mornings slow and predictable before driving to campus to work in Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Megan Behringer’s… Read More

As a little girl, Gabrielle (Gabby) Goodwin had a difficult time keeping barrettes in her hair. “My mom would spend 15-20 minutes doing my hair in the morning,” Goodwin recalled. “She would drop me off at school looking nice and then pick me up to find that half of my… Read More

Two members of the Class of 2025, Benedict Ballman and Rui Huang, have been chosen for the 11th cohort of the highly selective Schwarzman Scholars international graduate fellowship program. The Schwarzman Scholars program focuses on tackling the world’... Read More

Two seniors in the College of Arts and Science have been named 2026-2027 recipients of the Wattles Fellowship. The fellowship offers three women graduates from Vanderbilt University a one-year, fully integrated position in the London corporate risk management and insurance market. Meet the college’s two Wattles Fellows and learn about… Read More

Freedom is something many people in the world seek, but what factors contribute to a country being considered free? This is a question students in Associate Professor of Political Science Katherine Carroll’s course, Middle East Politics, explored by creating a mock report for Freedom House, a… Read More

Get to know the Class of 2026 Outstanding Senior winner and incredible nominees and hear what inspires the winner most. Read More

Timothy P. McNamara, Searcy Family Dean of the College of Arts and Science, went behind the scenes with Mackenna Guadagnoli (class of 2026) on the set of the Department of Theatre’s latest production and learned a few things along the way!… Read More

See how Cinema and Media Arts students are reaching real-world successes with their films. Read More

Caleb Feiring, BA'15, who studied English, economics and history at Vanderbilt, is an entrepreneur with an interesting—and incredibly tiny—place to call home in New York City. Read More

The Vanderbilt experience is woven into the lives of Allyson Maske, BS’92, and Jim Maske, BE’93, MBA’99, who first met as undergraduates. Between them, they have attended four of Vanderbilt’s schools and colleges, and their son, J.D., is a member of th... Read More

Darryl Berger, BA’69, and his family, have hosted the New Orleans Commodore Launch for four decades, marked by hospitality, connection and Commodore pride. Read More

Russell Smith, BA'68, of Washington, D.C., after retiring from his law practice, has joined Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies Joseph Rife and his students on international archaeological digs that have made extraordinary finds. Read More

Meet two student-professor teams using AI and social media to take their musical Immersion research to a new level. Read More

Thirty-five years ago, Alan LeQuire, BA’78, became Nashville’s most prominent sculptor with the unveiling of Athena Parthenos. In June, he returned to the Parthenon with a new body of work that celebrates contemporary people and an exhibit focused on A... Read More

As a research institution, the two “products” Vanderbilt puts into the world are alumni and the research produced. Whether it’s helping to cure cancer, inspire with art, or promote sustainability, Vanderbilt students learn to apply the combination of p... Read More

'The River Will Be a Part of Us' by Justus Wayne Thomas, BA'80, chronicles the journey of a group of young people from the U.S. and Germany who launched a homemade raft on the Missouri River near Kansas City, determined to float to St. Louis and from t... Read More

Jeff Martindale, BA'90, was awarded the Six Star Medal in March for completing the original six Abbott World Marathon Majors: TCS New York City Marathon (2010), Boston Marathon (2013), Bank of America Chicago Marathon (2017), Berlin Marathon (2022), TC... Read More