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Two carved pumpkins displayed on a table beneath a sign reading “Department of Neurology.” The right pumpkin is labeled “JANE GOODALL,” and a memorial sheet below includes a photograph of Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee and text honoring her.
November 6, 2025

2025 Pumpkin Carving Contest winners announced

By Amy Thomas
Two orange pumpkins decorated with googly eyes, open mouths, and raised arms appear to react to several fuzzy yellow bee decorations; a small beehive sits behind them.
November 5, 2024

2024 Pumpkin Carving Contest winners

Gourd-oriented artistry and wit abound

By Erin O. Smith
Three dogs—two light-colored retrievers and a cream-colored dog—sit together on a wooden deck beside an outdoor chair.
August 7, 2024

VUMC Pet Photo Contest is underway; deadline is Aug. 23

Use the REDCap link to enter your favorite pictures of your dogs, cats and other carbon-based life forms.

By Wayne Wood
A display on black fabric featuring a painted pumpkin, small white pumpkins, autumn leaves, multicolored corn, and a partially visible sign reading “9. NEUROLOG…” alongside a hand-drawn diagram titled “Anatomy of a Pumpkin Neuron.”
October 27, 2023

Winners of 2023 pumpkin carving/decorating contests announced

Space aliens! Minions! Nerds! A candy corn blowfish! This year’s entries have it all.

By Wayne Wood
Three carved pumpkins displayed on a table, depicting brain anatomy; labels below the front pumpkins read “Typical Brain” and “Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Brain.”
October 21, 2022

Winners of 2022 pumpkin-carving contests announced

The best of this year’s gourd-as-artistic-medium entries from Vanderbilt departments and from Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

By Vanderbilt Health News
Childlike artwork of a glowing green jack-o'-lantern with triangular eyes, a small triangular nose, and a smiling mouth, beneath a crescent moon and scattered stars; it rests on multicolored grass against a dark sky.
October 28, 2019

2019 VUMC Voice 7-to-12-year-olds’ Halloween art contest winners announced

These pictures belong in a museum where people can come and see ’em. They really are a screa-um.

By Wayne Wood