UVa's Med School Jordan Hall, named for eugenicist, to be renamed Pinn Hall

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Jordan Hall, named for eugenicist, to be renamed Pinn Hall

Vivian Pinn only female, African-American student to graduate from Medical School in 1967

by Anna Pollard | Sep 21 2016 | 11 hours ago

The Board of Visitors approved the proposed renaming of Jordan Hall to Pinn Hall in its meeting Thursday, removing the building’s previous connection to a eugenicist. The building — which serves as a medical research facility — has been renamed for Vivian Pinn, who graduated from the School of Medicine in 1967.

Pinn was the only female and only African-American member of her 1967 class and has since received numerous honors for her accomplishments as a physician.
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During her academic career, Pinn served at both Tufts Medical School and Howard University College of Medicine, where she became the first African-American woman to chair Howard’s Department of Pathology, Swensen said. She also served as the first director of the National Institute of Health’s Office of Research on Women’s Health.

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1. Good

Dr Pinn sounds like a good choice to name any medical school building for.

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2. I worked in Jordan Hall

We moved into a lab there in the early 70s when the building was new. I never knew who Jordan was. I do know that there were some marijuana plants in the flower beds around the front door when the governor cut the ribbon officially opening the building.