Celebration honors 9 new endowed chair holders |

9 Vanderbilt College college members who’ve been awarded endowed chairs had been honored by Interim Chancellor and Provost Susan R. Wente, deans, colleagues and relations on Feb. 25 on the Scholar Life Heart.

Wente famous in her opening remarks that Vanderbilt’s first endowed chairs had been established in 1918. The college now has a complete of 434 endowed chairs as Vanderbilt has stepped up its efforts throughout the previous decade to recruit and retain excellent students.

“At Vanderbilt, endowed chairs are an emblem of dedication—to scholarship, philanthropy and lasting affect,” Wente mentioned. “These being acknowledged immediately have taken numerous paths, however their targets are shared—to higher the world by means of their scholarship, and to show others learn how to do the identical.”

The latest chair holders embody main students and researchers who’ve analyzed the coronavirus, improved most cancers medication, and examined the interaction of feelings and anxiousness, amongst many different accomplishments.

“Our college are actually main efforts day in and day trip that tackle important present and future issues going through our international society,” Wente mentioned. In the course of the ceremony, Wente additionally thanked the philanthropic companions whose beneficiant assist has made the analysis and discovery of the endowed chair holders attainable.

The next college members had been honored:

• Seth R. Bordenstein, Centennial Chair
• Mark R. Denison, Edward Claiborne Stahlman Chair in Pediatric Physiology and Cell Metabolism
• Craig L. Duvall, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair
• Cathy Eng, David H. Johnson Chair in Surgical and Medical Oncology
• David Lubinski, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair
• Bunmi O. Olatunji, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Social and Pure Sciences
• Nilanjan Sarkar, David Ok. Wilson Chair
• Duane G. Watson, Frank W. Mayborn Chair in Peabody Faculty
• Rick W. Wright, Dan Spengler, M.D., Chair in Orthopaedics