A feature article in Gifted Child Quarterly named Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development, and David Lubinski, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology and Human Development, as the top two most productive scholars, respectively, in the field of mathematical giftedness. Benbow is an author on six of the top 10 most cited documents in the field, and Lubinski is an author on five. Vanderbilt University ranked as the third most productive institution researching mathematical giftedness.
Deon Benton, assistant professor of psychology and human development, received the Steve Reznick Early Career Award by the Cognitive Development Society.
James Booth was selected as a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Sarah Brown-Schmidt, professor of psychology and human development, was named a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
Ashley Carse, associate professor of human and organizational development, is a National Humanities Center Fellow this academic year.
Two Peabody faculty members were honored at Vanderbilt’s spring assembly. Alex Christensen, assistant professor of psychology and human development, won the inaugural Innovation in Teaching: Generative AI Award. Carolyn Heinrich, University Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations and Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics, won the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award.
Scott Crossley, professor of special education, and Joon Suh Choi, research associate, won the Catalyst Award in the Tools Competition for a conversational tool to help educators navigate large amounts of data on research findings and discover usable, research-backed practices.
David Dickinson, research professor of teaching and learning, emeritus, was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame by the Literacy Research Association.
Brent Evans, associate professor of public policy and higher education, is a senior advisor to the chief economist and to the under secretary of education at the U.S. Department of Education this year.
Ilana Horn, professor of math education, has been named editor of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education.
Nicole Joseph, associate professor of mathematics education, delivered the keynote address at UnboundEd’s Standards Institute, held July 15-18 in Washington, D.C.
Luis Leyva was recognized by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education and Out in STEM (oSTEM) for his research contributions that promote educational equity for underrepresented students in STEM.
Jessica Perkins, assistant professor of human and organizational development, was named one of three Early-Stage Investigator Lecture awardees by the Office of Disease Prevention at the National Institutes of Health.
City After Property by Sara Safransky, associate professor of human and organizational development, is a finalist for the JB Jackson Book Prize.
Rong Wang, assistant professor of human and organizational development, won the Basu Sharma Best Paper Award for her co-authored paper, “Cultural Intelligence, Diversity Climate, and Employee Behavior: A Study of MNE Subsidiaries in China.”
Duane Watson, Frank W. Mayborn Chair in Cognitive Science and professor of psychology and human development, was tapped to lead the initial planning of Vanderbilt’s College of Connected Computing as vice provost for special initiatives.
