Todd Jackson, BA’96, EMBA’08, and Evan Mack, BMus’03, are the recipients of the two newest awards presented by the Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board of Directors: the Alumni Volunteer Award and the Young Alumni Professional Achievement Award, respectively.
The Alumni Volunteer Award recognizes an alumni volunteer with a significant pattern of volunteer service to the university that has positively represented the institution and its mission. The Young Alumni Professional Achievement Award honors an alumnus or alumna age 40 or under with a significant record of career achievement and promise for future professional success.
As founders and co-chairs of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Young Ambassadors, Todd Jackson and his wife, EB, have helped to raise $250,000 and award seven Discovery Grants to innovative cancer researchers. Those grants have generated an additional $2.4 million in research funding. Todd also helped increase volunteer and giving participation as president of the Owen Graduate School of Management Alumni Council and served as the fundraising chair for his fifth-year Reunion.
Evan Mack, an assistant professor of piano at Skidmore College, is a distinguished composer and concert pianist. His first opera, Angel of the Amazon, won the Boston Metro Opera MainStage Award. He has produced five full musicals and, as a highly accomplished concert pianist, has toured all over the United States and in Barcelona and South Africa as a champion of American piano music.
Jackson and Mack will receive their awards during a ceremony later this year that will also recognize the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus, Dr. Harold “Hal” Moses, MD’62.