The Robert Penn Warren Center reveals its namesake’s long-forgotten conversations with historic civil rights greats. A photograph taken of Robert Penn Warren in the early 1960s shows not the young Kentucky boy whose life changed at Vanderbilt, but a mature Warren—wiser, with life’s experiences written on his face. This is the Warren who sought out men and women in the Civil Rights Movement, interviewing them, sometimes under the cover of darkness for their protection. The Warren who preserved those interviews so they could be heard, in their own voices, once again, thanks to an inter-institutional initiative spearheaded by the center that bears his name, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Science.
Now revered as America’s first poet laureate and the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry, Warren, BA’25, enrolled at Vanderbilt as an engineering student. In the English class he took to meet basic education requirements, Warren found where his passion lay: writing. He joined a group of fellow poets and intellectuals known as the Fugitives.
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Ken Catania is a funny guy. The associate professor of biological sciences is also soft-spoken, modest, articulate, creative and quick to laugh. In life, teaching and research, he always looks for the opportunity to do the fun thing—appropriate, since he’s a world-class practical joker.
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Don’t look for Grammy awards or gold records in Paul Worley’s Music Row office. He has them. Somewhere. Instead, the walls of the music executive’s office overlooking part of Vanderbilt’s campus are covered with guitars.
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To think about the College of Arts and Science is to think about diversity. From chemistry to classics, from physics to psychology to philosophy and everywhere in between, our researchers press deeply into the questions of their disciplines.
Read more »The interdisciplinary network integrates faculty and student researchers in natural sciences, social and behavioral sciences, engineering, and law and policy with the goal of uncovering a grass-roots solution to climate change. Members are conducting theoretical and applied research on individual and household behavior.
If Paris is for lovers, then New York City is for writers. No place is so synonymous with the written word and the community surrounding it as New York. And why wouldn’t it be? NYC is “the capital of the world” and an undisputed creative hub, and writing is what brings other worlds into the public domain.
Vive Vanderbilt en France For nearly 50 years, students have returned from the French city of Aix-en-Provence changed by what they experienced. Now Vanderbilt in France (ViF), the study-abroad program that transformed them, has evolved as well. Today’s ViF program has adapted to contemporary students’ needs and gives them a more global view of France and its people, says Associate Professor of French Virginia Scott, who served as professor-in-residence for summer 2008.
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From Art to Internet My first year out of the College of Arts and Science was an exciting, amazing and scary time in my life. It was 2000–2001. My personal play-by-play: First, with the NASDAQ at 5,000 and headed to 10,000, I moved back home to the Bay Area with the hope of joining an Internet company and becoming a participant in the “Technology Revolution.”
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Fully Equipped The Managerial Studies program blends liberal arts strengths with business know-how. In this global, fast-changing, digital age, people in business need to know more than just business. That’s why the Managerial Studies program in the College of Arts and Science combines a liberal arts education—cultivating creativity, knowledge, innovation and the ability to think critically—with a strategic foundation in business methods.
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“Safety Bob” Wheaton His license plate proclaims “SAFTBOB.” That moniker conveys Bob Wheaton’s mission as Vanderbilt’s executive director of environmental health and safety, sustainability and environmental management. Is there a funny smell in Benson Hall? Wheaton and his staff of 34 want to know about it.
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Before Deal or No Deal, Who Wants to Be A Millionaire or even Jeopardy, there was the GE College Bowl Quiz program. In 1960, Vanderbilt’s team of “thinking people” became one of only a handful of university teams with a string of four quiz program wins.
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Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History, and Jay Bloom, assistant professor of history of art, have received 2008 fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). ACLS fellowships and grants are awarded to individual scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences. William Caferro, professor of history, received the 2009 [...]
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Bruce Corser, left, records a family portrait after moving son Nick (second from right), a first-year Arts and Science student from Cincinnati, Ohio, into the Hank Ingram House in The Commons. Also sharing the landmark moment are Nick’s brother Pete, mom Janet, and sister Amy.
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