Commencement 2009
Welcome students and families to the Commencement 2009 Web site. Commencement activities and events took place May 6-8, 2009.
Commencement wrap up:
- DVDs of the 2009 main Commencement ceremony are now available to purchase.
- Watch the webcast of the main Commencement ceremony.
- Zeppos to grads: Balance key to success in life
- Vanderbilt University honors top students during Commencement
- Vanderbilt University honors 13 retiring professors
- VUCast Extra: Watch the 40-year journey of one graduate
- VUCast Extra: See how faith, love and science combined in an amazing story of survival. Meet a Vanderbilt grad who repeatedly fought death and changed countless lives.
- President of Rhodes College receives Vanderbilt Peabody Distinguished Alumnus Award
- Goodwin tells seniors to make the world a better place | Watch VUCast Extra: Senior Day wrap up
- Watch webcasts of Senior Day Study Breaks -- learning sessions for our guests, conducted by Vanderbilt faculty members:
-- "Promise of Nanotechnology: Unique new properties that can be tailored and controlled to solve challenges in our world" by Sandra Rosenthal
-- "Cornpone and the Cold War: Reassessing the Musical Li'l Abner" by Jim Lovensheimer
-- "Complicated Interdependencies: Water, Energy, and Food" by George M. Hornberge
-- "Historic Uncertainties and new Opportunities in Funding American Higher Education" by by Michael K. McLendon
- The Party features 'local' talent
- Download the Almost Alumni Handbook. (.pdf)
If you have questions not addressed on this Web site, please call us at (866) 3VU-GRAD.