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Input (English): Context: Vanderbilt University (also known informally as Vandy) is a private research university founded in 1873 and located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the South. Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War., Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the north central part of the state. The city is a center for the music, healthcare, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and home to numerous colleges and universities. Reflecting the city's position in state government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for Middle Tennessee. It is known as a center of the country music industry, earning it the nickname "Music City U.S.A.", Elsie Quarterman ( November 28 , 1910 -- June 9 , 2014 ) was a prominent plant ecologist . She was a Professor Emerita at Vanderbilt University . Quarterman was born on November 28 , 1910 in Valdosta , Georgia USA . She earned a B.A. from Georgia State Women 's College ( now Valdosta State University ) in 1932 and earned an M.A. in botany from Duke University in 1943 . Quarterman completed her Ph.D. at Duke University in 1949 with Henry J. Oosting . During her graduate work and afterward , she also collaborated extensively with Catherine Keever . Quarterman is best known for her work on the ecology of Tennessee cedar glades . These herb - dominated plant communities on the shallow soils of limestone outcrops are globally rare habitats and contain many endemic plant species . She is also credited with rediscovering the native Tennessee coneflower , Echinacea tennesseensis , which was thought to be extinct , in 1969 . Conservation efforts for the coneflower were successful , and it was delisted as an endangered species in 2011 . She supervised seven doctoral students , including Stewart Ware , a plant ecologist at the College of William and Mary , and Carol C. Baskin and Jerry M. Baskin , professors at the University of Kentucky . Throughout her career , Quarterman was also active in conservation . She died on June 9 , 2014 , at the age of 103 ., A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure-track faculty to continuously engage in research, as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure. Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative research and the prestige of their brand names. On the one hand, research universities strive to recruit faculty who are the most brilliant minds in their disciplines in the world, and their students enjoy the opportunity to learn from such experts. On the other hand, new students are often disappointed to realize their undergraduate courses at research universities are overly academic and fail to provide vocational training with immediate "real world" applications; but many employers value degrees from research universities because they know that such coursework develops fundamental skills like critical thinking. , Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794  January 4, 1877), also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. Born poor and having but a mediocre education, he used perseverance, intelligence and luck to work into leadership positions in the inland water trade, and invest in the rapidly growing railroad industry. He is best known for building the New York Central Railroad., Subject: elsie quarterman, Relation: place_of_death, Options: (A) best (B) central (C) home (D) most (E) nashville (F) new york (G) tennessee
Output (English): nashville