Vanderbilt University

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Masks used to protect health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic are sanitized with ultraviolet light at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennesee. Scienists hope that UV light can be used to disinfect high-risk indoor spaces and help slow the pandemic. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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"If there were ever a year to get vaccinated against the flu, this is it," Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University said. (Associated Press file photo)

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In this Sept. 27, 2016 photo, Godfrey Dillard, left, and Perry Wallace take part in a lecture at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. A half-century after Wallace became the first black basketball player in the Southeastern conference, he and former teammate Dillard, returned to the campus as part of a campus-wide discussion on race this year at the elite, private southern university. It’s a significant milestone in what has been Vanderbilt’s long, sometimes painful journey to become more diverse. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

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Vanderbilt University running back Ralph Webb (7) is tackled by multiple Western Kentucky University players in an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, in Bowling Green, Ky. (AP Photo/Michael Noble Jr.)

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This Sept. 30, 2003, file photo, shows the exterior of a dormitory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., is inscribed with the name Confederate Memorial Hall. The private university announced on Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, that it has struck an agreement to pay $1.2 million to United Daughters of the Confederacy to remove the name from the building. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Ricky Rogers, File)