The university’s iTunes U presence is the star of a new video produced by Apple and featured on the higher ed section of their Web site. The video was shot by a lovely and talented Apple team and their stellar freelance video crew on the Vanderbilt campus back in March. (Much of it was shot [...]
That describes our collective expectation when it comes to digital content and services, said Matthew Jett Hall, assistant vice chancellor for information technology services and associate chief information architect for enterprise infrastructure, in a great presentation to the Vanderbilt Webspiders Friday June 27. Matt talked about how the explosion of social media sites and tools [...]
Well it looks like it’s awards season and there’s more good news today for our team:
The Vanderbilt View has won a gold medal in the national CASE competition in the Internal Tabloids / Newsletter category and a gold medal from the Tennessee College Public Relations Association. Congratulations Joan Brasher, Kara Furlong, DeborahBrewington, Donna Pritchett and [...]
The focus of Chancellor Zeppos’ remarks to graduating students today was the pursuit of happiness - however they may define it.
“Lead lives filled with joy. Start that immediately,” he said.
I am definitely down with that. Read Jim Patterson’s well-done story (as usual, Jim delivered insightful and pithy copy in record time, he’s a wizard) on [...]
Commencement 2008 is underway! Hard to believe another year has gone by already, seems like just yesterday we were here for this wonderful ceremony. Families and friends have taken their seats, the buglers are sounding and the student procession is processing. Watch live streaming video (Real Player) or Windows Media.
Blogging to you this morning from the press riser in Memorial Gym, as parents and soon-to-be graduates filter in for this morning’s Senior Class Day events featuring humanitarian and pop star Bob Geldof. If you’re not going to be here, you can watch the event live at www.vanderbilt.edu or www.vanderbilt.edu/news. For a full schedule of [...]
Soon-to-depart Vice Chancellor Mike Schoenfeld is known for staring steely eyed at impending storms on the morns of our Senior Day and Commencement events, refusing to move the events for potential rain despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that ensued from us, his trusty staff. And he was always right. But this year, even [...]
In the whirlwind that was Friday I didn’t get a chance to shout from this virtual rooftop what you surely have heard by now: our fantastic college of education and human development, Peabody, continued its upward trajectory this year, coming in at No. 2 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s [...]
Two weeks into the promotion of our new emergency alert system, AlertVU and we already have well over 10,000 subscribers, more than the 9,200 or so who had signed for the previous system.
As an incentive, one that appears to be working, we’re giving away four, count ‘em, four iPhones to students, faculty and staff who’ve [...]
Hot off the presses - Humanitarian and rock star Bob Geldof will be the featured speaker at the Vanderbilt Senior Day celebration Thursday, May 10 at 10 a.m. Go to VUCast for more info. about Geldof, Senior Day, and more.
Also, 70’s and 80’s funk / soul gurus The Commodores will head up The Party [...]
