The Wond’ry provides tools to innovate and collaborate, making involvement in various challenges and opportunities throughout the year possible.
Wond'ry Mentorship Program

Wond’ry Mentors are a network of subject matter experts, executives, creatives, and forward thinkers from a wide array of disciplines eager to share their experience and insights with Wond’ry students.
Through the one-on-one, personalized guidance of a Mentor, participants gain access to years of expertise in the fields they hope to enter, need help in, or seek to hire from.
Other On-Campus Centers
The Wond'ry partners with many other centers and departments across Vanderbilt to support innovation. Partner offices include:
- Owen Center for Entrepreneurship
- Turner Family Center for Social Ventures
- The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, Public Policy, Active Citizenship and Service
- Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation
- Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization
- Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy and Climate
Mid-South Hub
The NSF Mid-South I-Corps Hub is a frequent collaboration partner with the Wond'ry and provides resources that build on ideas that start at the Wond'ry.
The hub accelerates the translation of groundbreaking university research outcomes into commercialized ventures that seed emergent, prosperous innovation ecosystems across the region. The hub spans five states and includes University of Arkansas, University of Virginia, Jackson State University, George Mason University, Meharry Medical College, Tennessee State University, University of Louisville, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University of Kentucky, University of Memphis, and Vanderbilt University.
Videos About Innovation
The following videos were created by friends of the Wond'ry on the topic of innovation.
