Peabody College
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Around the Mall – March 2018
During finals week, students gathered on the Lawn at Wyatt for “Puppies, Profs and Pies,” a stress-busting event hosted by the Peabody Office of Professional Graduate Education. Learn more about this and other fun and meaningful activities that have taken place on campus recently. Read MoreMar 30, 2018
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Tennessee’s Top Teacher: Cicely Woodard
Cicely Woodard By Andrew Faught For students whose hearts race at the thought of coefficients and cube roots, look no further than Cicely Woodard. The mathematics teacher at Metro Nashville’s West End Middle School was named the 2017–18 Tennessee Teacher of the Year in September 2017 for her “outstanding… Read MoreMar 29, 2018
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Vanderbilt’s Humphrey Fellows to visit Dollywood, Vol State-Livingston
Vanderbilt’s ninth cohort of Humphrey Fellows will travel to East Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains April 6–8. Read MoreMar 28, 2018
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Ph.D. student argues for early intervention in reading trouble, takes 3MT top prize
In its sixth year at Vanderbilt, the Three Minute Thesis competition drew 49 students mostly from engineering and the sciences, but future history, religion and English Ph.D.s participated as well. Read MoreMar 26, 2018
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Vanderbilt’s Gavin Price receives NSF CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Grant to Gavin R. Price, assistant professor of psychology, to further his research on Developmental Dyscalculia. Read MoreMar 22, 2018
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Vanderbilt’s Gavin Price receives NSF CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Grant to Gavin R. Price, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. Read MoreMar 20, 2018
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Vanderbilt graduate schools among the nation’s best
Vanderbilt University’s graduate schools remain among the nation’s best, according to the latest "U.S. News & World Report" rankings. Read MoreMar 20, 2018
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Vanderbilt Peabody’s Jiménez named 2018 AERA fellow
Robert T. Jiménez is among 11 scholars selected as 2018 fellows by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The fellowship is one of the highest honors in the field of education. Read MoreMar 19, 2018
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Transit panel series continues; third installment features Kopstain, Getz
More than 100 students, faculty, staff and community members attended the March 13 transit forum presented by Vanderbilt at the Student Life Center. The final forum is set for April 10. Read MoreMar 16, 2018
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New faculty: Yolanda J. McDonald, assistant professor of human and organizational development
Yolanda J. McDonald applies a geographic lens to questions about health disparities, examining how race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status and where people live affect their physical health. Read MoreMar 16, 2018
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Olympic-size goals drive Paralympian and Peabody professor
Courage and determination runs through the veins of two-time Paralympian and Vanderbilt professor Anjali Forber-Pratt. She lives by the motto “dream, drive, do.” Now she’s using her drive to succeed in research, advocacy and mentoring dedicated to disability rights. Forber-Pratt, assistant professor of human and organizational… Read MoreMar 8, 2018
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Olympic-size goals drive Paralympian and Peabody professor
Courage and determination runs through the veins of two-time Paralympian and Vanderbilt professor Anjali Forber-Pratt. Now, she's using her drive in research and advocacy on disability rights. Read MoreMar 7, 2018
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Research participants needed for infant language development studies
The Vanderbilt Language Development Lab is seeking the participation of parents and their infants 11 to 12.5 months of age in studies on language development. Read MoreMar 2, 2018
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Vanderbilt’s Jiménez named 2018 AERA fellow
Robert T. Jiménez is among 11 scholars selected as 2018 fellows by the American Educational Research Association. Read MoreMar 2, 2018
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Research participants needed for neurofibromatosis study focused on reading difficulties
The Vanderbilt Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab is seeking participants age 8 to 20 for a research study focusing on reading difficulties and neurofibromatosis. Read MoreMar 1, 2018
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Vanderbilt scholars honored for supporting women in sport
Anjali Forber-Pratt and Sharon Shields will be honored at the SHAPE America National Convention and Expo March 20–24 in Nashville. Read MoreFeb 27, 2018
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‘Vanderbilt Has My Soul’
During the four decades since the Paul Kurtz left campus for a career in Athens, Georgia, his service and philanthropy attest to a lifelong affinity for Vanderbilt University. Read MoreFeb 26, 2018
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Mark Seidenberg delivers Educational Neuroscience talk April 6
The lecture will focus on the need to look closely at linguistic differences between language used in the home and in schools. Read MoreFeb 23, 2018
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UCSB’s Jeffrey F. Milem to speak at Vanderbilt on race relations and education
The Peabody Dean's Diversity Lecture Series, featuring Jeffrey F. Milem of the University of California–Santa Barbara, is April 2. Read MoreFeb 23, 2018
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VU BreakThru: Impact of school choice in affluent districts
School choice is often touted as way for students in low-income areas to attend better schools. But what benefits does school choice offer for students in affluent areas with access to high-performing schools? As part of Vanderbilt’s Sterling Ranch TIPs program outside of Denver, two Peabody graduate students investigated these high-choice, high-status environments to find out. Read more about TIPs grants and other internal faculty funding programs—including University Courses, Discovery Grants and Research Scholar Grants—at the VU BreakThru blog. Read MoreFeb 22, 2018