| Vikram Kode Iyengar | |
| Department of Biology |
|
| Villanova University | |
| 800 Lancaster Avenue | |
| Villanova, PA 19085 | |
| email: vikram.iyengar@villanova.edu | |
| office: (610) 519-8081 | |
| fax: (610) 519-7863 | |
[updated June 3, 2008]
| Vikram Kode Iyengar | |
| Department of Biology |
|
| Villanova University | |
| 800 Lancaster Avenue | |
| Villanova, PA 19085 | |
| email: vikram.iyengar@villanova.edu | |
| office: (610) 519-8081 | |
| fax: (610) 519-7863 | |
| Extra-curricular Activities |
| My main extra-curricular interests have always been sports and music. During my free time, I play a variety of sports including tennis, ultimate, basketball and volleyball although my truest love will always be baseball (although it's mostly softball these days). Being a New Yorker, I am an avid fan of the Yankees, and I remained active playing and coaching softball in town and intramural leagues during graduate school at Cornell. |
| Music has always been important in my life, and I still remember holding up a tape recorder to my radio to tape songs from Casey Kasem's Top 40 Countdown. Fortunately, my tastes have grown up and matured, although I am known for occasionally indulging in the pop songs of my youth. I was a disc jockey for a year at a local rock radio station in Ithaca, and I have DJed many parties and weddings for friends. I enjoy listening to all kinds of music - from the Allman Brothers to Tom Waits to Stevie Wonder to Willie Nelson - but most of my favorite artists are folkish performers such as John Gorka, Van Morrison, James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. I learned to play guitar in college, and occasionally can be heard strumming and singing by campfires. |
| All Time Favorite Albums | Current iPod Favorites (albums) | ||
| Abbey Road (1969) | Beatles | Not Too Late (2007) | Norah Jones |
| Late for the Sky (1974) | Jackson Browne | Cold Roses (2005) | Ryan Adams |
| A-1-A (1974) | Jimmy Buffett | Mudcrutch (2008) | Tom Petty |
| Crossroads (1989) | Tracy Chapman | Frank (2003) | Amy Winehouse |
| Fat City (1992) | Shawn Colvin | River: The Joni Letters (2007) | Herbie Hancock |
| August and Everything After (1993) | Counting Crows | I Love Everybody (1994) | Lyle Lovett |
| What's Going On (1971) | Marvin Gaye | Foxboro Hot Tubs (2008) | Green Day |
| After Yesterday (1998) | John Gorka | Careless Love (2004) | Madeleine Peyroux |
| Flyer (1994) | Nanci Griffith | One From The Vault (1991) | Grateful Dead |
| Nomads, Indians, Saints (1990) | Indigo Girls | Random Quotes | |
| The Stranger (1977) | Billy Joel | Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own | |
| Tumbleweed Connection (1971) | Elton John | And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go | |
| Blue (1971) | Joni Mitchell | May lie a reason you were alive but you'll never know | |
| Veedon Fleece (1974) | Van Morrison | - Jackson Browne, "The Dancer" | |
| Graceland (1986) | Paul Simon | The only things worth living for are innocence and magic | |
| Mud Slide Slim (1971) | James Taylor | - David Gray, "Silver Lining" | |
| Joshua Tree (1987) | U2 | Dream as if you'll live forever - live as if you'll die today | |
| Closing Time (1973) | Tom Waits | - James Dean | |
| Faithless Street (1995) | Whiskeytown | There are two types of people in the world - those who divide | |
| the world into two kinds of people and those who don't. | |||
| - Vik Iyengar, circa 1989 | |||
