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2 months ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Alison Winters |Jorie Fawcett |Swarada Kulkarni |Rhea Patney
The Hustler sat down with Chancellor Daniel Diermeier for our first debrief of 2025. He shared his hopes for the university in 2025, reflected on civil discourse on campus and highlighted the uncertainty the presidential transition may bring to higher education. He also spoke about a new position within administration, graduate student unionization and the continuing success of Vanderbilt athletics.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Swarada Kulkarni
Vanderbilt professors Dr. Kevian Stassun and Dr. Larry Bartels were recognized by President Joe Biden as recipients of the National Medal of Science at the White House on Jan. 3.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Madeleine Freeland |Swarada Kulkarni
Roughly $42.7 million and $69 million were raised towards the goal during the 2023 and 2024 Reunion and Homecoming weekends. 5 minutes ago Vanderbilt on Nov. 11, 2024 that its Dare to Grow fundraising campaign had reached its $3.2 billion goal 20 months ahead of schedule. The fund supports students through various operations, including Opportunity Vanderbilt, graduate scholarships, faculty research and endowments, strategic projects — such as Dialogue Vanderbilt — and athletics.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Jacob Stoebner |Alison Winters |Tasfia Alam |Swarada Kulkarni
The Hustler sat down with Chancellor Daniel Diermeier for our last debrief of 2024. He discussed retaining diversity in the admissions process after the Supreme Court banned affirmative action and reflected on the past three semesters of Dialogue Vanderbilt programming and speakers brought to campus. He also spoke about construction on campus, the expansion of campus in Nashville and around the country and graduate student unionization.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Salma Elhandaoui |Swarada Kulkarni
Vanderbilt’s 2024 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report showed a decrease in rape, fondling and stalking and showed an increase in motor vehicle theft and drug-related violations. The report outlined crime statistics from 2023 reported to the U.S. Department of Education in compliance with the Clery Act. The report drew crime data from several sources, including the Vanderbilt University Police Department and the Title IX Office.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Anastasia Thumser |Swarada Kulkarni
Editor’s note: This piece contains mention of rape. Dialogue Vanderbilt hosted Yascha Mounk — a political scientist, author and associate professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University — on Nov. 12. The discussion was held during Vanderbilt professor of sociology and medicine Jonathan Metzl’s “Guns in America” course and focused on overcoming identity politics when making sense of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Swarada Kulkarni
Students reported a large stream of brown water flowing down on 21st Avenue midday Nov. 11. According to an outage alert at 4:25 p.m. CST on the Metro Water Services Outage Map, the flooding was a result of an active water main break with repairs in progress on Peabody Lawn. An email from Housing and Residential Experience to residents of North, West, East, Gillette and Memorial houses advised that they would experience water outages but service was expected to be restored overnight.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Swarada Kulkarni
The Hustler won 35 national awards at the Fall National College Convention, taking home 26 College Media Association Pinnacle Awards and nine Associated College Press Individual Awards. The convention — the nation’s largest gathering of media students and journalists — was sponsored by ACP and CMA. The Hustler as an organization won second-place Pinnacles in both the General Email Newsletter category for the weekly digest and the Sports Email Newsletter category for the weekly sports report.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Swarada Kulkarni
The Hustler sat down with Google DeepMind Director John Jumper to discuss his research experiences and work on AlphaFold, an AI system that can predict protein structures from amino acid sequences. 3 minutes ago John Jumper (B.S. ‘07) recently shared in the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The Hustler sat down with him earlier this week to discuss his journey into research and his career path, including his time at DeepMind, where he led the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold project.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Swarada Kulkarni
John M. Jumper (B.S. ’07) was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry, the youngest person in the last 70 years to receive the prize in chemistry. Jumper graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in mathematics and physics. He then studied theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of Cambridge and earned his master’s and doctorate in theoretical chemistry from the University of Chicago. Jumper is a director of Google Deepmind, a London-based intelligence laboratory.
