The restructuring of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center as separate legal and financial entities positions both institutions for even greater strength in the complex environments of higher education and health care, writes Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in a message to the Vanderbilt community.
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a fully independent, nonprofit entity following the completion of the transaction that separated it legally and financially from Vanderbilt University. The transition positions VUMC for future growth and investment, while preserving its tightly woven connections to the university in research and teaching.
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Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will host a roundtable May 2 discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s current vacancy and the controversy surrounding the nomination of a new justice. Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, and Vanderbilt’s Jon Meacham and Audrey Anderson will participate in the discussion beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Langford Auditorium.
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Several Vanderbilt University systems are back online following the legal separation of the university and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. University faculty and staff should check back often for updates on availability.
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Vanderbilt students gave $60,000 to three Nashville charities on April 25, the final day of a spring semester class on philanthropy.
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In an election season that will shatter the record for money spent on a presidential campaign, political scientists at Vanderbilt and UCLA have created SpotCheck, a new approach for assessing political ads using internet-based surveys.
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Growing up in small-town Kentucky, Safiah Hassan longed to live in a larger city with a diverse population. After coming to Vanderbilt, she made seeking out diverse communities a hallmark of her university experience.
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On Leap Day—Feb. 29—Blair School of Music senior Jack Coen took a leap of faith. That night Coen, a composition and theory major, premiered his capstone project “Folk and Flora”—a song cycle based on flowers and how people relate to them—in Sarratt Cinema to a full house.
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The Writers-in-Residence program at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons mixes students from Vanderbilt’s highly regarded MFA creative writing program with students from the university’s first-year living and learning community to explore fiction and poetry.
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Members of the Vanderbilt community have the opportunity to provide input in the director of schools search in Nashville.
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Leah Lowe will discuss “Immersive Theatre and the Audience of the Future” when she speaks May 4 as part of the Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box: Conversations with a Philosophical Flair series at the Nashville Public Library.
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Vanderbilt law professor J.B. Ruhl will speak at the Williamson County Public Library May 24 about the impact of our vast and highly regulated global food system, with growing calls for reform through the New Food Movement.
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“Out of the Vault: Stories of People and Things,” an exhibition curated by Vanderbilt students that explores the dynamic relationships among objects, individuals and communities, is currently on view through Sept. 9 at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.
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Hawkins Field, home of Vanderbilt’s national championship baseball team, has replaced all existing High-Intensity Discharge (HID) fixtures on the field with fewer Light-Emitting Diode (LED) fixtures.
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Working adults looking to further their education are invited to the open house of Vanderbilt’s Master of Liberal Arts and Science program at 6 p.m. May 4.
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This image from the remixed version of the alma mater is one of our favorite #vandygram photos of the week.
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Watch what happens when more than 100 Vanderbilt students, along with University News and Communications, team up for a fresh new take on the university’s alma mater.
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