Lectures & Events Archives
Dance Marathon Saturday; record fundraising goal is $200,000
Feb. 17, 2016—Vanderbilt’s largest student-run philanthropic organization, which supports the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, is hosting its annual keystone event this Saturday in the Student Life Center Ballroom.
Kennedy Center to host Faith and Disabilities Community Conversations
Feb. 11, 2016—The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Disabilities and Religion program is hosting community conversations in Davidson and Williamson counties to brainstorm with key stakeholders about increasing opportunities for meaningful participation for people with disabilities and their families in communities of faith.
Lady Antebellum, guest stars present Nov. 9 show benefiting Children’s Hospital
Oct. 29, 2015—Grammy Award-winning Lady Antebellum and special musical guests will present a powerful night of music Nov. 9 benefiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.
VICC annual retreat slated for April 30
Apr. 9, 2015—Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s annual retreat will be held Thursday, April 30, 8 a.m.—3 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute director to speak Feb. 25
Feb. 20, 2015—Gary Gibbons, M.D., director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), will deliver a special cardiology grand rounds on Wednesday, Feb. 25. His lecture, entitled “Charting Our Future Together: Setting an Agenda for the NHLBI,” begins at noon in 208 Light Hall. Boxed lunches will be served. The third largest institute at the...
Community theologian Tex Sample to deliver 2014 Cole Lectures
Sep. 26, 2014—The 2014 Cole Lecturer at Vanderbilt Divinity School is Tex Sample, an author and Methodist minister noted for his social justice work.
Arnold Myint, ‘Future Man’ to join TED-style panel Sept. 23
Sep. 10, 2013—“Your City: Nashville’s Stories” will include brief addresses by Reid Thompson, Arnold Myint, Tasha A. French Lemley and Roy Wooten, better known by the stage name 'Future Man'.
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center to hold free symposium on fragile X
Jul. 30, 2012—The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Fragile X Treatment Research Program will present information and current research on fragile X at a symposium titled “Transitions and Adulthood.” The free event is Monday, Aug. 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Nashville-Vanderbilt and is open to family members, friends, researchers, clinicians, students, community professionals and disability advocates....
Mayor to introduce directory for Nashville immigrants at breakfast
Apr. 15, 2010— Mayor Karl Dean and businessman Cal Turner Jr. will speak at a May 6 breakfast to introduce an online directory of classes and services for the city’s growing foreign-born population.
