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April 8-14, 2002

Gee at Spring Faculty Assembly: graduate education must improve

Photo by Neil Brake

Chancellor Gordon Gee identified the challenges facing graduate education at the Spring Faculty Assembly. "For some reason, we have not been able to cure what ails us. Graduate education must be, now, the major priority at this University," he said.

 

Chancellor Gordon Gee addressed members of the Vanderbilt faculty April 2 at the second annual Spring Faculty Assembly. The Headnotes, Vanderbilt Law School's a capella group consisting of students, faculty and staff at the Law School, began the proceedings. James F. Blumstein, professor of law and Centennial Chair in Law and chair of the Faculty Senate, introduced the Chancellor, whose remarks follow:

 

This occasion is, as it always is, a celebration of your talents. It is not a "State of the University" speech, but rather an occasion for another meeting of our minds in the course of this rather long conversation that we have been having. And we simply do not do this enough and we simply do not have enough time or do enough of these things.

Before we move any farther in, allow me to congratulate our former provost, Tom Burish, on his recent appointment to the presidency of Washington and Lee University.

 

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Annual Faculty-Staff Campaign under way

by Jessica Howard

The 2002 Faculty-Staff Campaign, "Investing in the Future of Vanderbilt," kicked off April 2. Approximately 100 volunteers within the University serve as campaign coordinators in their respective departments. Malcom Getz, associate professor of economics, is the chair of this year's campaign.

"The annual Faculty-Staff Campaign gives each of us an opportunity to cast votes for something extraordinary," said Getz. "Contributions we make to the special elements of Vanderbilt make a tangible difference in the quality of the whole."

Last year, a record-breaking $1,374,923.19 was contributed to the University campaign -- including two major non-recurring gifts -- and $81,181 in pledges. Approximately 1,400 donors participated. Donations can be made to any University gift fund which includes the University's 10 schools, Medical Center programs, libraries, scholarships, athletics and faculty and staff support.

 

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Nash lectures at Vanderbilt

Photo by Neil Brake

Nash spoke to members of the Department of Psychiatry about schizophrenia research April 5.

 

by Jessica Howard

John F. Nash Jr., Nobel Prize-winning economist and visiting research collaborator in mathematics at Princeton University, traveled to Vanderbilt April 3-7. Accompanying him were his wife, Alicia, and their son John Charles.

Nash -- upon whom the Oscar Award-winning motion picture, A Beautiful Mind, was loosely based -- was on campus to speak at several events, including the McGee Lecture April 5, sponsored by the Department of Economics.

Nash's visit to Vanderbilt resulted from a long-term friendship with Dr. Herbert Y. Meltzer, chair of the program in schizophrenia at the Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt. Meltzer, the Bixler/Johnson/Mays Chair in psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and professor of pharmacology, met Nash several years ago to understand the basis for both Nash's remarkable recovery from schizophrenia and to reconcile his illness with his exceptional contributions in mathematics and economics.

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