Many things have happened since last I wrote.
Monroe Carell Jr. The Vanderbilt community mourned the passing of Monroe Carell Jr. June 20, one of its staunchest supporters and most generous benefactors. If you did not know Mr. Carell through his business acumen - he transformed Nashville’s Central Parking from 10 lots to the world’s largest [...]
You know how you can be well aware of a momentous change, but it doesn’t really sink in until something relatively minor comes along to remind you? That happened today, when I saw Mike Schoenfeld’s name missing from our news release distribution list. And our divisional phone list. Just like that - no more Mike.
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Good news for the internal communications team here in Public Affairs - we’ve won a national silver medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in the Individual Public Relations and Community Relations Projects category for our new internal communications program that includes for myVU, myVU Preview and the Vanderbilt View. Congratulations [...]
Big news from Vanderbilt Athletics today - $50 million expansion planned for all things Commodore. Improvements underway and planned include upgrades to Vanderbilt Stadium, Memorial Gym, Hawkins Field, the McGugin Center and a new Commodore Hall of Fame. The hall’s inaugural class will be inducted this fall. Get video, photos and more here.
So you’re wanting the back story on Bob Geldof’s visit to Vanderbilt? The celebrity demands? The flights from the paparazzi? The trashed hotel rooms?
Okay, nothing like that happened. They don’t call him Sir Bob Geldof for nothing - from all reports he was the most gracious, down-to-earth and intellectually engaged rockstar I’ve ever almost met.
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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 [...]
For those of you looking here for the Geldof video, it is no longer available. I apologize.
Bob Geldof delivered a fantastic Senior Day speech at Vanderbilt today - hitting all the right notes of humor, empathy and calls to action. Remarkable once again to be on this campus and hear from someone who is knee deep in global politics sharing his views and urging us to join him in addressing the [...]
Chancellor Nick Zeppos today announced that Richard McCarty, dean of the College of Arts and Science, will take Zeppos’ place as provost, a spot he vacated when becoming chancellor. McCarty has been at the helm of A&S for the past seven years; Executive Dean Carolyn Dever will take over while the search is underway for [...]
I’ve been itchin’ to tell you guys about this and now I can: we’ve optimized the VU homepage for the iPhone. Ta dah! Lion’s share of credit goes to the Vanderbilt News Service’s mad programmer Mike Petruna.
To see the site on your iPhone, just go to www.vanderbilt.edu. Check it out elsewhere here: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/iphone.
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