Spring break certainly has gotten a bad rap over the years, but this year, as they’ve done for the past 20 years, hundreds of Vanderbilt students will be heading to towns and parks across North and South America to take part in service projects. Four Vanderbilt students came up with the idea of spending spring [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 24, 2009
Commodore Carnival Queen
Vanderbilt junior Amelie Munro Brown has been selected as the 2009 Mardi Gras Queen of Carnival, WGNO (ABC), WDSU (NBC), WVUE (FOX), and WNOL (WB), New Orleans, have reported. Brown was interviewed for the WGNO and WNOL reports. Congratulations, Amelie!
February 16, 2009
VU cleans up at CASE
Guest post from Philip Tucker, Vanderbilt Development and Alumni Relations Communications, from the CASE III conference in Atlanta Feb. 10. Congratulations, everyone!
It was a fantastic night of recognition for Vanderbilt’s communications teams at the CASE Region III Conference Awards Banquet in Atlanta tonight! All together, Vanderbilt took home 16 awards, including four awards recognizing the [...]
February 5, 2009
So what’s really happening with Vanderbilt’s endowment?
News released today from the university indicates the university’s endowment declined 16.5 percent during these dreary past six months. As of Dec. 31, 2008, the Vanderbilt endowment stood at $2.9 billion, down from $3.5 billion on June 30, 2008.
Normally, quite bad news. Given the current climate however, these numbers show the university is holding its [...]
