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The Zeppos Report #22 with Jami Cox and Ryan Connor
May 17, 2018 15:44 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBBefore Vanderbilt Student Government President Jami Cox and Vice President Ryan Connor walked across the Commencement stage, they joined Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos for one last visit as undergraduates. The conversation is the latest episode of The Zeppos Report. When asked if they distinctly remember the first time they stepped foot on the Vanderbilt campus, Cox and Connor reply with a simultaneous “Yes!” Connor says his first moment on the Vanderbilt campus was during a visit ...
The Zeppos Report #21 with Amitav Ghosh
April 16, 2018 14:00 - 34 minutes - 63.2 MBAmitav Ghosh, a best-selling author whose work puts Asia at the center of global history, culture and environmental challenges, lectured on campus April 4 as part of Vanderbilt Asian Studies' 50th anniversary. Before his talk, Ghosh joined Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos on The Zeppos Report. Ghosh, whose books have been translated into more than 20 languages, is the author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. On the podcast, he discusses why people are less interested...
The Zeppos Report #20 with Chris Matthews
April 02, 2018 14:00 - 47 minutes - 44 MBA bestselling author and host of MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews visited campus on March 27 for a Chancellor's Lecture. Before the event, he joined Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in his office for the latest edition of The Zeppos Report. Matthews' newest bestselling book, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit (Simon & Schuster, 2017), explores unifying characteristics of the politician during tumultuous times in history. On the podcast, he notes differences between Bobby and the rest of ...
The Zeppos Report #19 with Carly Fiorina
March 12, 2018 13:47 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBAfter the 2016 GOP presidential primary race, former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina refocused her energy towards equipping leaders from all walks of life. Fiorina discusses her leadership philosophy with Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos on the latest episode on The Zeppos Report. She visited campus Feb. 20 to participate in a Chancellor’s Lecture entitled “Redefining Leadership: Crafting Civic Virtues in America.” “Leaders don’t worry about winning or losing, leaders focus ...
The Zeppos Report #18 with Jelani Cobb
February 26, 2018 14:53 - 47 minutes - 87.4 MBProfessor and author Jelani Cobb preceded his keynote address to the Vanderbilt community with a conversation about free speech and open inquiry on college campuses. In the latest episode of The Zeppos Report, Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos engages Cobb, the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, in a discussion about the historical narratives of race in America. The two stress the importance of leaning into the tough conversations in university se...
The Zeppos Report #17 with Jon Meacham
February 12, 2018 14:48 - 34 minutes - 63.6 MBOn Feb. 6, a week after President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Visiting Distinguished Professor Jon Meacham sat down to discuss the president’s first year in office on the latest episode of The Zeppos Report podcast. “Let’s start with some general reactions to the president’s first year. … Do we have to nest him in some sort of historical context before we jump too far ahead to say there’s never been anything like this before?” Vanderbilt Chancel...
The Zeppos Report #16 with Michael Eric Dyson
January 22, 2018 15:30 - 24 minutes - 44.8 MBBefore Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, took the stage at Langford Auditorium for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Series, he conversed with Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos about core American ideals that often emerge in the national discourse when remembering King’s legacy. In the latest episode of The Zeppos Report, Dyson acknowledges the profound impact that King brought about in his own intellectual journey. “When I saw him on televi...
The Zeppos Report #15 with Alberto Gonzales
December 12, 2017 14:37 - 40 minutes - 73.5 MBFormer U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ commitment to public service has been actualized in varying capacities over the years. “I quickly realized what a privilege it was to serve our country,” said Gonzales, “Although I was a poor kid from a poor family, I felt like an equal.” In the latest episode of The Zeppos Report, Gonzales joins fellow legal scholar Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos to discuss his upbringing in a town called Humble, Tex., his current role as dean of the...
The Zeppos Report #14 with Andrew Maraniss
November 27, 2017 14:08 - 41 minutes - 75.5 MBOn the latest episode of The Zeppos Report, bestselling author and writer-in-residence Andrew Maraniss tells Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos that his journey to Vanderbilt started with a poster on the wall of a high school in Austin, Texas. That is where he first learned about the Fred Russell–Grantland Rice scholarship—an award for Vanderbilt students interested in pursuing a career in sports journalism. He received the scholarship in 1988 and put his passion into action a year later when he ...
The Zeppos Report #13 with Jim Stavridis
October 30, 2017 15:00 - 25 minutes - 46.8 MBFormer NATO Commander talks about global leadership on 'The Zeppos Report' Before taking the stage at Ingram Hall for the Chancellor’s Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 3, retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis shared about his journeys on the seas and beyond on the latest episode of The Zeppos Report. Stavridis, who now serves as dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, conversed with Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos about the key moments in his schooling...
The Zeppos Report #12 with Suzana Herculano-Houzel
October 09, 2017 14:08 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBNeuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel grew up in Rio De Janeiro with two academics as parents. She says that “informed criticism” was highly encouraged in her household, but her father—an economist—still sometimes wonders how he produced such a “rebel” scientist. In the latest episode of The Zeppos Report, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos delves deep into the field of neuroanatomy with Herculano-Houzel, associate professor of psychology and biological sciences. The two explore the shattered do...
The Zeppos Report #11 with Sally Yates
September 28, 2017 16:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBAfter joining Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos for a discussion on “The Presidency and the Rule of Law” Tuesday night, former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates joined Zeppos for an episode of The Zeppos Report. In the podcast, the two lawyers discuss the role of the Department of Justice at length, touching on topics such as the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the Russia investigation. Yates, released from her role in the Tru...
The Zeppos Report #10 with Megan Barry
September 07, 2017 16:28 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBA pair of Nashville’s most influential civic leaders engage in a conversation about the dynamic city and its innovative citizenry in the 10th episode of The Zeppos Report. Nashville mayor and Vanderbilt alumna Megan Barry sat down with Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos to discuss Nashville and Vanderbilt’s shared values—and the consistent, prominent role equity, diversity and inclusion hold among them. “We’re a diverse city, and you see that in the student body you have here at Vanderbilt and y...
The Zeppos Report #9 with Keivan Stassun
August 16, 2017 15:26 - 44 minutes - 82 MBFor astrophysicists, star gazing is far from a whimsical pastime. In the latest episode of The Zeppos Report, Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and professor of astronomy, describes his field as one that requires a mix of extraordinary patience and uninhibited curiosity. “When I’m doing astronomy, I’m having a great time, but it’s not particularly spiritual. In fact, some of it is quite dull. But, there are those moments … those punctuated, indescribable moments,” Stassun says in...
The Zeppos Report #8 with Holly Tucker
August 07, 2017 15:18 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBHolly Tucker, professor of French and professor of medicine, health and society, is familiar with that “overwhelmed” feeling at the library. For her, though, it happens at specialty collections in Paris while surrounded by tomes of 17th century French manuscripts. In the latest edition of The Zeppos Report, Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos interviews Tucker about the complex infrastructure of her scholarship. “It’s a muddy mess, isn’t it?” Tucker cheerfully exclaimed. Tu...
The Zeppos Report #7 with Ken Burns
May 31, 2017 21:05 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBLegendary filmmaker Ken Burns talks about his enduring sense of discovery on ‘The Zeppos Report’ Just after graduating from college, Ken Burns found himself sick in bed with pneumonia. To help him pass the time, his best friend brought Burns a paperback copy of David McCullough’s classic book on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Burns read the book “in one gulp,” then came into the living room in pajamas and bathrobe, saying: “This is it! This is our film!” “And they all looked at me lik...
The Zeppos Report #6 with Jeff Rothschild
May 15, 2017 13:09 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBWhen Facebook’s founding engineer and Vanderbilt alumnus, Jeff Rothschild, first visited the fledgling company in 2005 at the behest of a venture capital firm, he was wary of the social media space in general and didn’t expect to stay more than two weeks. But then “I got to meet Mark (Zuckerberg) and Dustin Moskovitz and the other early members of the team and really fell in love with the vision they had for Facebook,” Rothschild told Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in an...
The Zeppos Report #5 with Janette Sadik - Khan
April 26, 2017 16:50 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBJanette Sadik-Khan discusses ‘Street Fight’ on ‘The Zeppos Report’ Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos interviews Janette Sadik-Khan, one of the world’s leading voices on urban transportation policy, on his podcast, The Zeppos Report. Zeppos and Sadik-Khan discuss the evolution of her career, the keys to her work in transforming New York City streets, and her vision for taking these lessons to the streets of Nashville and cities around the world. Sadik-Khan served as commissi...
The Zeppos Report #4 with Jerry Wilmink
April 12, 2017 17:48 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBVanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos interviews Jerry Wilmink, founder and CEO of WiseWear Corporation, on the fourth episode of The Zeppos Report podcast. A Vanderbilt biomedical engineering alumnus (bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D.) and self-described “mad scientist,” Wilmink also has experience as an inventor, startup business consultant for venture capital firms and program manager for the Department of Defense’s $2 billion Small Business Innovation Research program. The chan...
The Zeppos Report #3 with Barry Friedman
March 16, 2017 16:50 - 41 minutes - 38 MB-- Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos interviews Barry Friedman, a noted constitutional law scholar and director of a project to strengthen policing through democratic governance, on the third episode of The Zeppos Report podcast. Friedman, the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Laws at New York University, is the author of a new book, Unwarranted: Policing without Permission (February 2017). Friedman, who previously taught at Vanderbilt Law School, serves as founding direct...
The Zeppos Report #2 with David Owens
February 17, 2017 19:52 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBVanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos' second podcast guest is David Owens, a leading thinker on innovation and creativity who is a professor at the Owen Graduate School of Management. He also has faculty appointments in Engineering and Medicine. Among the many companies he has consulted for include NASA, The Smithsonian, Nissan LEAF, Gibson Music and many more. Owens talks about what it was like as the first faculty member to teach a class, 'New Product Design and Development...
The Zeppos Report #1 with John Geer
February 02, 2017 19:44 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBVanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos' first podcast guest is renowned Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer, who is also vice provost of academic and strategic affairs and co-director of the Vanderbilt Poll. Geer offers his informed perspective on why Donald Trump won the election and how the way he ran his campaign seems to be a predictor of at least the beginning of his presidency. Geer, author of the award-winning book, In Defense of Negativity: Attacks Ads in Presid...