Nashville has several arts centers and museums, including the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, Fisk University's Van Vechten and Aaron Douglas Galleries, Vanderbilt University's Fine Art Gallery and Sarratt Gallery, and the Parthenon.

A portion of Fairleigh Dickinson University's College at Florham is located in Madison on the former Vanderbilt estate.

Confederate Memorial Hall, located on Vanderbilt University's Peabody campus.

Royce holds a doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College.

A son of William Henry Vanderbilt, Frederick Vanderbilt graduated in 1876 from Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School, to which he donated $ 500, 000 in 1902.

Meyer is Adjunct Associate Professor of Double Bass at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music, as well as at the Curtis Institute.

Professor Louise Rollins-Smith of Vanderbilt University's Medical Center, for example, has developed from the skin of frogs a compound which blocks AIDS.

* The Rotunda at Vanderbilt University's Wyatt Center.

Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, he studied at Vanderbilt University's engineering school for one year before joining in the Army during World War I.

Research by Dr. Glenn Edwards and colleagues at Vanderbilt University's FEL Center in 1994 found that soft tissues like skin, cornea, and brain tissue could be cut, or ablated, using infrared FEL wavelengths around 6. 45 micrometres with minimal collateral damage to adjacent tissue.

After losing his Senate bid, Cooper moved to Nashville and went into private business, also serving as a professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.

Gee left under a storm of criticism in 2000, as members of the Brown community widely accused him of departing the school after an uncommonly short tenure because of Vanderbilt University's offer of a corporate-level salary and a tenured teaching position for his wife.

* The Morris K. Jesup Psychological Laboratory on Vanderbilt University's Peabody campus was named for him and was the first building of its kind in the world ;

After working as an assistant coach for Vanderbilt University's football program, Wade was hired as the head coach at the University of Alabama in 1923.

He was a student of Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School and Stephen Clapp at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.

* Commodore, the mascot of Vanderbilt University intercollegiate athletics teams

At the time of its construction, there was a serious discussion within the Vanderbilt community about whether the school should de-emphasize intercollegiate athletics.

This was said to be a concession to the fact that Peabody had no intercollegiate athletics of its own, but cynics noted that Peabody did have a major in physical education, a major frequently taken by scholarship athletes but one which had not been available at Vanderbilt, and was seen by many as an attempt to get players onto Vanderbilt sports teams, notably football, who were not eligible for admission to Vanderbilt.

Vanderbilt vice chancellor of athletics David Williams announced on February 6, 2012 Vanderbilt will be adding new FieldTurf and a new JumboTron.

Nine months later, on May 20, 2008, Vice Chancellor David Williams II announced, in a McGugin Center press conference, that the University was beginning a five-phased, multi-million dollar program of renovations to Vanderbilt athletics facilities, including extensive renovations and additions to Vanderbilt Stadium.

At Vanderbilt he excelled in athletics, earning varsity letters as a member of both the varsity tennis and track teams.

He was always the primary ' go-to ' guy for Vanderbilt athletics for those years as well.

Plaster went on to be the Broadcaster for Vanderbilt athletics.

" On November 10 and 11 at Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland, another defending champion, they lost close games to both teams, their first consecutive defeats since 1961.

Vanderbilt football began in 1892, and for thirty years, Commodore football teams played on the northeast corner of campus where Wilson Hall, Kissam Quandrangle, and a portion of the Vanderbilt University Law School now stand, adjacent to today's Twenty-First Avenue South.

In the early 1970s Peabody students became eligible to participate on Vanderbilt athletic teams.

It was one of the first teams composed of male athletes ever to compete at such a high level with a female head coach, former Vanderbilt University star Ashley McElhiney.

The Vanderbilt Commodores are the NCAA athletic teams of Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee.

There is no official headquarters of church although many of its biggest administrative offices are in Nashville, Tennessee and are physically located near Vanderbilt University ( which has historic Methodist ties but is no longer associated with the church ).

Washington Duke at Duke University, Ezra Cornell at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins at Johns Hopkins University, Leland Stanford at Stanford University, and Cornelius Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt University are several notable examples of Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth mentality and Carnegie Mellon University is one such result.

The closest colleges to Vanderbilt are

There are many colorful stories of how the cats first came to France, including pairs of cats being a reward for helping defend a temple, or being smuggled out of Burma by a Vanderbilt.

When, as a teenager, Consuelo objected to the clothing her mother had selected for her, Alva Vanderbilt told her that " I do the thinking, you do as you are told.

Several research centers and institutes are affiliated with the university, including the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Dyer Observatory, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the only Level I trauma center in Middle Tennessee.

Three U. S. Poets Laureate are Vanderbilt alums: Allen Tate ( B. A.

Because Nashville Municipal Auditorium and Vanderbilt's Memorial Gym, the only other sizable indoor venues in Nashville, are unsuitable for arena football ( Municipal Auditorium's floor was too small to contain the field of play as its ice hockey rink had always been of less-than-regulation size and Vanderbilt had a " dry " policy for on-campus athletic events ), Adams explored the idea of building his own mid-size arena ( roughly 10, 000 seats ) to host the Kats and compete with the a | Gaylord Entertainment Center for concerts and smaller sporting events.

A plot was kept for the Vanderbilt family in the Moravian Cemetery and several of them are buried there in the family mausoleum including the family founder.

Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now National Historic Landmarks.

In the late 19th century, it became the home to members of the prominent Vanderbilt family, many of whom are buried here in the Moravian Cemetery.

Similarly, Professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick of Vanderbilt University has argued that politics are undoubtedly a part of judicial selection in Missouri Plan states, writing, “ In short, I am skeptical that merit selection removes politics from judicial selection.

Memorial Gymnasium at Vanderbilt University and Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis are two other existing arenas with a raised floor.

The name evokes the Vanderbilt family's Biltmore Estate, whose buildings and gardens within are privately owned historical landmarks and tourist attractions in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.

* Mrs. Vanderbilt ’ s Bedroom-Designed as a perfect oval, Alice Vanderbilt ’ s room accommodates multiple doors, though they are cut into the wall to leave an undisturbed picture of geometric perfection, that connect the bedrooms.

They are buried together in the Vanderbilt family mausoleum in the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp on Staten Island, New York.

( In a flashback his mother reminds him that — in contrast to such vulgar upstarts as the Astors, " whose family, I believe, still lets rooms ," and the " vulgar tugboat captain " Vanderbilt -- " You are a Nately, and the Natelys have never done anything for their money.

The excavations are sposored by Vanderbilt University and the National Geographic Society, the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, the Ahau Foundation, ARB, Interco Tire, PIAA and Warn Industries.

Most notably designed by inspiration of the Rotunda and Lawn are the expansive green spaces headed by Rotunda-like buildings built at Duke University in 1892, Johns Hopkins University in 1902, Rice University in 1910, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1915, the Green at the University of Delaware in 1916, Killian Court at MIT in 1916 and the " Grand Auditorium " of Tsinghua University in Beijing built in 1917.

His illustrations for the Vanderbilt cookbook are simple line drawings in pen and ink, emotionally spare, and contrast starkly with the otherwise sumptuous cookbook setting.