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Making a better tomorrow tomorrow
Campaign finance expert Matt Sanderson ’08 serves on the Colbert Super PAC legal team. Matt Sanderson, Class of 2008, appeared before the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on June 30, 2011, with his boss, former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter, now a member of Caplin & Drysdale, and their client, comedian Stephen… Read MoreJun 10, 2013
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Kofi Dadzie, BE’00, Wunderkind of West Africa
During a 1997 summer internship, Vanderbilt mechanical engineering student Kofi Dadzie had a brilliant idea: Enormous opportunities awaited someone who could bring a combination of business principles and information technology to his homeland, Ghana. Read MoreJun 9, 2013
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Transformer: John Elkington, BA’70, Revived Memphis’ Iconic Beale Street And Helped Bridge A Racial Divide
Thirty years ago John Elkington stood near the Mississippi River and looked east down historic Beale Street. The legendary jazz district, where blues pioneers W.C. Handy, Muddy Waters and B.B. King once played uniquely American music, resembled a war zone. The iconic area had become a wasteland of abandoned and… Read MoreJun 8, 2013
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Lu Zeph, EdD’83 Disabilities Advocate
Lu Zeph believes people with disabilities have both a civil and a human right to develop their abilities in an inclusive community. “The disability rights movement is rooted in the Civil Rights Movement,” she states. Both faced similar opposition, she says, and both have advanced society. Read MoreJun 8, 2013
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For fans who’ve stuck with Vanderbilt through thick and thin, this is a season like no other
In December 2010, a relatively unknown Maryland assistant football coach named James Franklin arrived in Nashville to occupy a hot seat that had scorched a long list of more seasoned men—that of Vanderbilt University’s head football coach. Read MoreJun 4, 2013
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Young alumni rise to GOLD Challenge and help secure $100,000 gift to Opportunity Vanderbilt
Members of the classes of 2003 through 2012 have made Vanderbilt history by rising to the university’s challenge specifically for young alumni—the GOLD Challenge—and helping to secure a $100,000 gift to Opportunity Vanderbilt. Read MoreJun 3, 2013
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Zachary T. Fardon ’92 (BA’88) has been nominated to serve as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
Fardon’s nomination was announced by the White House on May 23. “Today, I am honored to nominate this highly respected legal professional as a United States Attorney,” President Obama said in the White House release. “Zachary Fardon will be unwavering in his commitment to justice, and I am confident he will… Read MoreMay 28, 2013
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Former University of Minnesota president receives Peabody Distinguished Alumnus Award
Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development bestowed its 2013 Distinguished Alumnus Award on educational psychologist Robert H. Bruininks during Commencement on May 10. Read MoreMay 10, 2013
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Building a Better Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt's annual Faculty-Staff Campaign lets employees give back to areas that interest them most. Read MoreMay 2, 2013
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VU alumni honor John Lachs for educational contributions
John Lachs, the Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, has received the 2013 Vanderbilt Alumni Education Award. Read MoreApr 29, 2013
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Training the next generation of pediatric leaders
It’s often said that children are the future. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt invests a tremendous amount of time and resources into training the next generation of specialists who will care for those children. Read MoreApr 10, 2013
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements
Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read MoreApr 10, 2013
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Fighting Duchenne by supporting research
A week before Christmas 2008, Terry and Sonya Marlin received the type of news no parent ever wants to hear. Both of their sons, Jonah and Emory, were diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at the young ages of 5 and 2. Duchenne is a rapidly worsening form of muscular dystrophy… Read MoreApr 10, 2013
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Peabody alumna is creating social change
For Alyssa Van Camp, a graduate student in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and former undergraduate at Vanderbilt, bettering the world has been a lifelong pursuit. This spring, that pursuit was recognized as Van Camp participated in and won the Business for Good competition, hosted by the… Read MoreApr 8, 2013
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Laura Reinbold, BE’82, leaves her mark on Nashville’s changing skyline
Laura Reinbold (BE’82) is fond of saying that since coming to Vanderbilt University at age 17, she’s never lived much more than a mile from where her parents deposited her on West End. Then again, she didn’t need to go far to leave her mark. Read MoreApr 8, 2013
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Vanderbilt launches 2013 Faculty-Staff Campaign
Vanderbilt has kicked off its annual Faculty-Staff Campaign, with a goal of raising $1.25 million or more with at least 1,500 university central faculty and staff members participating. Read MoreApr 5, 2013
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Steeplechase strengthens bond with Children’s Hospital
As the Iroquois Steeplechase gears up for its annual spring event, the race this year will honor one of the leaders at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and also support a newly established fund for hospital research efforts. Read MoreMar 28, 2013
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Patient’s cancer journey inspires fund for research
There’s a long list of Vanderbilt faculty and staff who made an impact on Terri and Steve Voland when Steve was treated at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center for a rare type of cancer in his neck and spine. Read MoreMar 21, 2013
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Alumni spotlight: Bicycle entrepreneur Austin Bauman
The Hustler caught up with alumnus Austin Bauman, owner of Green Fleet Hub, to hear about his career experience in the post-Vanderbilt world. Read MoreMar 11, 2013
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The transformation of Vanderbilt athletics
In academics and on the playing field, Vanderbilt athletes are all in. Read about the dramatic changes happening in Vanderbilt athletics. Read MoreMar 4, 2013