by Jerry Jones
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center Board has approved
phase II of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital, allowing
for construction of an 11-story outpatient clinic. The $20 million
outpatient clinic will be built parallel to the new Children's
Hospital, which is currently under construction.
The Medical Center Board's recommendation will need to go to
the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust for approval.
The facility will connect to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's
Hospital and will provide space for all Children's Hospital outpatient
clinic services. These services are currently spread over five
different buildings throughout the Medical Center. The 169,000-square-foot
building will provide almost a three-fold increase in total outpatient
clinic space. For the first time in its 30-year history, Children's
Hospital will be able to offer all inpatient and outpatient services
in one location.
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Committees discuss residential colleges
by Skip Anderson
Five Residential College subcommittees met Dec. 5 to begin the
sizeable task of identifying aspects of the residential college
system best suited for future Vanderbilt students.
The half-day of meetings was the first in a series designed
to solicit input from students, faculty and staff regarding a
program that will eventually cluster students and faculty together
in relatively small housing groups. All models under consideration
call for students and faculty to interact academically and socially,
and to eat meals together on a regular basis. The widely publicized
meeting, which was open to the Vanderbilt community, began with
a panel discussion consisting of faculty, staff and students,
many of whom had experienced a residential college system at another
institution either as faculty or as students.
"Today is the very beginning of a long-term discussion, and
I thank the administration for engaging the discussion," said
Richard Siever, president of the Student Government Association.
Half of the members of the five subcommittees are students,
as are half of the co-chairs. Faculty and administrators comprise
the other half.
Vanderbilt professor, two visiting faculty receive
2001-02 Fulbright Scholar grants
A Vanderbilt professor and two foreign scholars who are currently
conducting research at Vanderbilt have been named recipients of
Fulbright Scholar grants for 2001-02.
Konstantin Kustanovich, associate professor of Slavic languages
and literatures, is visiting St. Petersburg, Russia, this year
as a guest lecturer in Russian literature and culture at Nevsky
Institute of Language and Culture.
On the Vanderbilt campus this year are Eimutis Juzeliunas, deputy
director of the Institute of Chemistry in Vilnius, Lithuania,
and Andrzej Kisielewicz, distinguished professor at the Institute
of Mathematics at the University of Wroclaw in Poland.
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