Education And Psychology
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New faculty: Disney explores role of neurotransmitters in attention
When Anita Disney was growing up in Adelaide, Australia, friends and family assumed she would follow her biologist father into science. But she wasn't hooked until she took a biological psychology course in college. Read MoreSep 30, 2014
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Shanghai teacher collaboration model catches on in Tennessee
A teacher collaboration model used in Shanghai is proving useful to Tennessee teachers. Read MoreSep 25, 2014
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Survey: Majority of Tennessee teachers oppose Common Core
Support for Common Core has declined among Tennessee teachers over the past year, according to the results of a new Vanderbilt study. Read MoreSep 24, 2014
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Peabody collaboration encourages teens to become ‘makers of content’
A collaboration between Peabody College and the Nashville Public Library has created a new public library makerspace for area teens called Studio NPL. Read MoreSep 16, 2014
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Principals have lots of teacher effectiveness data, but don’t use them
New website outlines ways principals can maximize data for talent management decisions. Read MoreSep 10, 2014
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Maier receives Society of Neuroscience Career Award
Psychologist Alex Maier has been selected to receive the Society for Neuroscience’s Career Development Award for 2014. Read MoreAug 29, 2014
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VU receives grant renewal from Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks is renewing Vanderbilt University as an Autism Treatment Network (ATN) site with a three-year, $420,000 grant. Read MoreAug 28, 2014
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Proposed college rating systems unfair to low-income, minority students?
Vanderbilt's Stella Flores will join colleagues in a congressional briefing on recent proposed legislation. Read MoreAug 26, 2014
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Landers, Fuchs win awards at Fall Faculty Assembly
An international expert on slavery and emancipation during the 18th and 19th centuries was awarded the prestigious Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research during Vanderbilt University’s Fall Faculty Assembly. Read MoreAug 22, 2014
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Combined drugs and therapy most effective for severe nonchronic depression
The odds that a person who suffers from severe, nonchronic depression will recover improve substantially when treated by drugs and therapy. Read MoreAug 20, 2014
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Is math hard because we’re teaching it wrong?
Introducing concepts before equations may make it easier to learn math, according to a new Vanderbilt study. Read MoreAug 12, 2014
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Size matters when convincing your brain to eat healthier foods
Playing with the portions of good and not-so-good-for-you foods is better than trying to eliminate bad foods, says a Vanderbilt study. Read MoreAug 11, 2014
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Fault trumps gruesome evidence when it comes to meting out punishment
A new brain study has identified the brain mechanisms that underlie our judgment of how severely a person who has harmed another should be punished. Read MoreAug 3, 2014
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Historically black and Hispanic-serving colleges are performing better than previously thought
A Vanderbilt study sheds new light on the completion rates at minority-serving institutions. Read MoreJul 28, 2014
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Study: Tennessee teacher retention bonuses are paying off
A new study shows that cash incentives are a good way to retain highly effective teachers in low-performing schools. Read MoreJun 23, 2014
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Grit better than GRE for predicting grad student success
New findings suggest interviews are better predictors of graduate STEM program completion than test scores and would increase participation by women and minorities. Read MoreJun 12, 2014
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Is ‘No Child Left Behind’ getting a bad rap?
A new Vanderbilt study is dispelling the notion that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has eroded teacher job satisfaction and undermined job retention. Read MoreJun 10, 2014
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Twenty-one Vandy grad students snag prestigious NSF fellowships
This year 21 Vanderbilt Graduate School students have won prestigious National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships. Read MoreMay 22, 2014
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Pre-K ‘best practices’ goal of PRI, MNPS team
Vanderbilt’s Peabody Research Institute will collaborate with Metro Schools’ newly appointed director of early learning innovation, Lisa Wiltshire, to create and document a preschool curriculum rooted in play, experimentation and discovery. Read MoreMay 16, 2014
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Arne Duncan, Bill Haslam to address education writers at Vanderbilt
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be featured at the Education Writers Association’s annual gathering at Vanderbilt in May. Read MoreMay 7, 2014