Year: 2023

David Weintraub, professor of astronomy, was named an American Astronomical Society fellow for his groundbreaking research and his work in communicating astronomy to the public. Read More

Join HR Employee Learning and Engagement on Feb. 21 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. for "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" webinar. Read More

Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been awarded a grant to further his research into capturing high-resolution images of live viruses in tissues. The three-year grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Frontiers of Imaging is one of 20 awarded worldwide with the aim of revolutionizing the study of viruses, human health and vaccines. Read More

Incoming traffic from 21st Avenue onto Medical Center Drive will be diverted on Saturday, Feb. 11, starting at 6:30 a.m. to install a crane that will conduct work at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may nominate two early career faculty members for the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Program. Read More

Vanderbilt University may select one nominee per major school/division for the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program. Read More

President Joe Biden announced Feb. 3 his intent to appoint Corey E. Thomas, BE’98, as one of 14 new members of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Read More

Project will be led by Mechanical Engineering Professor Nabil Simaan, a globally renowned expert in robotic surgery A multidisciplinary team from the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering has received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to develop a low-cost simulation tool to train medical personnel in Kenya to perform minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures. The project will... Read More

Vanderbilt engineering professor Gautam Biswas partnered with the School of Nursing to bring eye tracking technology and machine learning algorithms into education and training environments. Read More

The University of Mississippi teamed with Vanderbilt to host a debate exhibition on Feb. 3. The free event, part of an effort to increase civic engagement on Vanderbilt’s campus, drew an audience from the higher ed and Nashville communities.  Read More

Biomedical engineering graduate student Ismael Ortiz has been awarded a fellowship in the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered at the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ford Predoctoral Fellowships are highly competitive with a typical overall success rate of only 4% to 5%. Fellowships provide three years of support at... Read More

In partnership with Vanderbilt’s Department of English and MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy is soliciting poems from students currently enrolled in any Tennessee college or university. Students may submit a poem in the style of their choosing that explores what unity through American democracy means to them. Read More

Led by Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering and a globally renowned expert in robotic surgery, a multidisciplinary team from the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering has received nearly $4 million to develop a low-cost simulation tool to find solutions that allow safer, minimally invasive surgeries for a wider swath of the global population.  Read More

By Jenna Somers Christopher Candelaria News headlines often give the impression of teacher shortages as national and state level crises, but if policymakers want to ensure classrooms are adequately staffed, they need to examine and address labor market conditions more locally, all the way down to the school level. That’s… Read More

Nominations are open for the ninth cohort of the Chancellor Faculty Fellows, a program that awards select faculty with financial and institutional support at a key moment in their careers. Learn more and read about past awardees' successes. Read More

Join HR Employee Learning and Engagement for #IamRemarkable on Thursday, Feb. 16, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The workshop aims to empower underrepresented groups to speak openly about their accomplishments in the workplace and beyond. Read More

ChatGPT marks a groundbreaking step forward in artificial intelligence. Beyond the impressive technology, the program is generating controversy and conversation about its impact on academia. Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute will host a lunchtime information session, “Understanding ChatGPT,” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 20, in Alumni Hall, Room 202. Read More

A Vanderbilt School of Nursing team has been approved for a $250,000 funding award through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program, an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The funds will support identifying and disseminating strategies for overcoming barriers to ICU patient- and family-centered comparative effectiveness research. Read More

Comedian, actor and advocate Margaret Cho was the keynote speaker at Vanderbilt University’s second annual Empowerment Summit, hosted by the Student Center for Social Justice and Identity on Jan. 28. The theme of this year's event highlighted experiences within the Asian and Asian American diaspora. Read More

Applications to serve as a faculty VUceptor are now open. Faculty VUceptors are dedicated to assisting and learning from first-year students and work to model dynamic and meaningful professor-student interaction. Read More