Year: 2012
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Four named AERA fellows
Joseph Murphy Richard Lehrer Steve Graham Lynn Fuchs The American Educational Research Association has selected four Peabody faculty members to be AERA Fellows. Lynn Fuchs, Steve Graham, Richard Lehrer and Joseph Murphy are among 36 scholars nationwide named… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Peabody ranked first again
Peabody maintained its No. 1 national ranking in U. S. News & World Report for the fourth consecutive year. Peabody has topped the rankings, selected through expert opinions and statistical indicators, since 2009. Its administration/supervision and special education programs were also ranked No. 1 in the country, special education… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Donald J. Stedman, PhD’62, awarded Peabody’s Distinguished Alumnus Award
Donald J. Stedman, PhD’62, was awarded Peabody’s Distinguished Alumnus Award during Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 11. During his career, Stedman taught at Duke, Peabody and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served as professor of education, associate director of the Frank Porter… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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A Caret of Editors
Christine Quinn Trank Steve Graham Karen Harris Ron Zimmer The American Educational Research Association has appointed Ron Zimmer, associate professor of public policy and education, as an incoming editor of its quarterly publication, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Milner presented AACTE Outstanding Book Award
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education presented its 2012 Outstanding Book Award in February to H. Richard Milner IV, associate professor of education and a founding director of the Learning, Diversity and Urban Studies graduate program in the Department of Teaching and Learning, for Start Where You Are,… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Paying the Debt wins awards
The Peabody College historical documentary Paying the Debt has won a Telly Award for scriptwriting and two silver awards for documentary and scriptwriting at the 18th Annual Communicator Awards. Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs,… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Benbow to lead national commission on educator preparation
Dean Camilla Benbow will co-chair a new accrediting body designed to help ensure that every classroom in the nation has an effective teacher. The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation is the new accrediting body being formed through the unification of two organizations charged with assuring quality in educator… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Programs for Talented Youth wins grant
Teacher Jamie Teasley and students work on projects during the Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt University, hosted by Programs for Talented Youth at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt University’s Programs for Talented Youth at Peabody College will offer accelerated academic opportunities for up to 60 low-income gifted students through a $232,000… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Graduate and Professional Students Gala
Students attending the Graduate and Professional Students Gala in April at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts included (from left) Molly Druce, Meghan Davenport, Jordan Kook, Claire Holman and Jamie Eldredge. Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Talk to kids about television
Children learn more from television viewing when parents participate than they would during book reading, new research from Peabody finds. In a first-of-its-kind study, children showed significant gains in vocabulary and comprehension when parents asked them questions about the content, rather than simply parking them in… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Higher ed, federal government ‘intimately connected’
Where would American higher education be without government support for research and student aid? Not where it is today, says Peabody College researcher Christopher Loss, who examines the history of the crucial relationship between the government and higher education in his new book, Between Citizens and… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Appalachia focus of new Peabody research
Murphy Smith Goldring Researchers from Peabody are collaborators in the Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia as part of a $28 million, five-year grant from the Institute for Education Sciences. REL Appalachia conducts empirical research in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia and… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Enhanced training to help soldiers’ mental health
As the United States officially ends its war in Iraq and thousands of service members return home, researchers at Peabody are working with the Department of Defense to ensure mental health concerns from deployments are not overlooked. Funded by the U.S. Army Medical Research and… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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Vanderbilt’s energy conservation efforts pay off during heat wave
Anthony Hayes of VUMC Plant Services' electrical shop installs LED energy efficient light bulbs at Eskind Biomedical Library. (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) When Nashville temperatures soared to an all-time high last Friday, the Vanderbilt campus kept its cool, thanks in part to low humidity as well as the long-term energy conservation… Read MoreJul 5, 2012
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The future is all around us
A selected group of Medical Center leaders were asked about where they think the opportunities and challenges lie in the decade ahead, and the part that all of us play as we move ahead together. The strategy was to ask many people the same questions, on the theory that they… Read MoreJul 3, 2012
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Football players to unveil new uniforms at bookstore event
Commodore fans are invited to join Vanderbilt Head Coach James Franklin on Wednesday, July 11, for a public unveiling of the football team’s new uniforms for the 2012 season. The event, scheduled for 6-8 p.m., will take place at the Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt, located at 2501… Read MoreJul 3, 2012
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Valdastri receives best paper award at international computer aided surgery conference
Pietro Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and member of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE), was awarded with the OLYMPUS ISCAS Best Paper Award at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS) June 30 in Pisa, Italy. Read MoreJul 3, 2012
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Engineering doctoral student wins first prize in DOE competition
Bethany Smith, a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, has been awarded a first place prize in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards competition. Read MoreJul 3, 2012
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Linus Hall, EMBA’00, taps into the craft brewing market at Yazoo
Running a craft brewery requires a personal touch, but few pour themselves into the job like Linus Hall. His Nashville-based Yazoo Brewing Co., which has expanded its reach across the Southeast since opening in 2003, is as much a testament to his handcrafted approach to beer making as it is… Read MoreJul 3, 2012
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Visual Arts: Molten Mysteries
Jose Santisteban—beads of perspiration glistening on his brow—rotates a long, thin metal tube tipped with a bubble of honey-colored molten glass inside a furnace that’s been heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. As African jazz plays in the background, Santisteban removes the pipe from the furnace, blows air into the glass… Read MoreJul 3, 2012