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	Friday, Sept. 7, 2018

Student-athlete Turner Cockrell fights cancer with help of VU teammates

Turner Cockrell, a tight end on the Vanderbilt football team, was diagnosed with melanoma last November and will undergo a procedure Friday in hopes of staving off more cancerous cells. Throughout his battle, Cockrell has remained a Commodore—and his Vanderbilt family has stood by him.

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What’s On My Mind: Strengthening Vanderbilt’s impact on the global stage

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos outlines the importance of amplifying Vanderbilt’s reach and reputation globally in this week’s “What’s On My Mind” column.

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Nominations open for Chancellor’s Public Voices Fellowship for faculty

Nominations are now being accepted for the first cohort of the Chancellor’s Public Voices Fellowship, a new program designed to expand Vanderbilt’s global reach by amplifying the impact of faculty research through media training and enhanced strategic communications.

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Faculty involvement, interest help draw incoming nursing students

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing welcomed 421 new students in August. Incoming master’s, doctor of nursing practice and Ph.D. in nursing science students each named the school’s faculty as one of the reasons they chose to attend.

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‘ESPN The Magazine’ writer, best-selling author to visit Vanderbilt

The Vanderbilt University Sports and Society Initiative will host best-selling author Howard Bryant on Tuesday, Sept. 11, as part of its new series, “A World of Possibilities: Examining the Olympics from Diverse Angles.”

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Celebrate Immersion Vanderbilt with Choir!Choir!Choir! event

Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff are invited to celebrate the spirit of Immersion Vanderbilt—exploration, collaboration and creativity—with Choir!Choir!Choir! Sept. 12.

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From ‘Vanderbilt Magazine’: Deep Healing

Two VU alumni are making waves in drug discovery by plumbing the oceans’ depths for new therapeutic molecules.

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Take Note

Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards Youth Literary grant to VKC Reading Clinic

Osheroff to receive Richard Armstrong Mentoring Award

Vehicle and pedestrian route closings on Peabody campus

Experience Vanderbilt funding for 2018-19 open to students

CPR/AED/First Aid certification courses available

International Lens film series announces fall schedule

Coming Up

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Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series: ‘Violence Seen through a Public Health Lens’

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Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series: ‘Health Inequities in our Backyard and Strategies to Address Them’

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Vandy Cooks: ‘Asian Flair’ Sept. 19

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Vanderbilt in the News

Nature: ‘Bow ties’ break record for bottling up light

Sharon Weiss, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, has developed an innovative method for trapping light.

Newsweek: Will science ever prove that God does or does not exist?

Over recent decades, the idea that science can discover the existence or non-existence of God has gained some momentum. Scott Aikin, assistant professor of philosophy, is quoted.

Business Insider: The 50 best colleges in America, ranked

Vanderbilt is among the top 20 best colleges in America.

Washington Post: In Va., Kaine and Stewart offer differing views on the opioid crisis

Andrew Goodman-Bacon, assistant professor of economics, is mentioned regarding varying viewpoints on the opioid crisis.

Scientific American: ‘Bone-crushing’ dogs left evidence in their poop

Larisa Desantis, professor of earth and environmental sciences, is quoted.

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