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It was used as a residential building by female descendants of Confederate veterans who were selected by the UDC to live free of charge while they studied education. [5] [2] Memorial Hall in 2006. The building became part of Vanderbilt University campus in 1979 when the university acquired Peabody College. [3]
The following historically African American fraternities and sororities at Vanderbilt are members of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. [4]Alpha Kappa Alpha (sorority); Alpha Phi Alpha (fraternity)
It is part of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The Vanderbilt Cancer Center was established in 1993 and received its initial NCI designation in 1995. It was renamed the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in 1999 after a significant donation from the Ingram family. The center received its NCI "comprehensive" cancer center status in 2001.
In 1960, African-American Divinity student James Lawson was expelled from the university for his Civil Rights activism by Chancellor Harvie Branscomb. [3] One of Vanderbilt's trustees, James Geddes Stahlman, published misleading stories in a newspaper he owned, The Nashville Banner, which suggested Lawson had incited others to "violate the law" and led to his expulsion. [3]
In fall 2011, Vanderbilt University received a $4.85 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation [12] for the establishment of a national MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. [13] Vanderbilt's Ph.D. Program in Law & Economics was the first program of its kind in the nation [citation needed ...
In 1991, the UT Board of Trustees assigned the hospital's primary roles of patient care and medical education to University Memorial Hospital and the UT Graduate School of Medicine, respectively. [3] The facility is currently under expansion, with plans to add nearly 50 beds to the Heart Hospital.
The red brick structure, the columns of the building as well as the decorative swag elements over the front windows perpetuate the style desired by President Bruce R. Payne and the Executive Committee of the Board of Trust, one that is reflective of the University of Virginia campus where President Payne had attended college [2] Subsequent ...
Vanderbilt was one of the first women allowed to compete in the America's Cup. She was allowed aboard her husband's yachts during the 1934 America's Cup and the 1937 America's Cup. [1] Vanderbilt served on the board of trust of Vanderbilt University, a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, as an honorary trustee. [1]