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The Choice: Meacham and Geer on 2024

The Choice, produced by the Dialogue Vanderbilt, is a four-part podcast focused on the key moments and ramifications of the 2024 presidential election between former president Donald J. Trump and current President Joseph R. Biden. Vanderbilt’s Jon Meacham and John Geer will blend history and political science to offer insights and context about this rematch of the 2020 presidential contest. Read More

Why have venture capitalists become so founder-friendly?

A paper co-authored by Brian Broughman, professor of law, proposes a new model for analyzing venture capitalist behavior. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School students craft guide on public grocery stores

Four Vanderbilt Law Students, under the guidance of Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation director Ganesh Sitaraman, authored a paper that sheds light on the benefits and drawbacks of public grocery store models, offering guidance and a model bill for policymakers and leaders considering their use in urban or rural communities. Read More

Study abroad in Africa: A renewed commitment to global experiences

Vanderbilt students want to engage with the world in meaningful ways, and the university is deeply committed to making global opportunities available to students. The Vanderbilt Study Abroad team is essential to those goals, and they recently hosted a workshop with the School for International Training aimed at reinvigorating engagement in study abroad in Africa. Read More

Novel approach to safeguard patient data included among NSF-led National AI Research Resource Pilot

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy recently announced that a team comprised of Vanderbilt’s newly created ADVANCE center and VALIANT lab is among the first round of 35 projects that will be supported with computational time through the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot. Read More

Vanderbilt wins top awards at 2024 ARL Film Festival 

Vanderbilt University and the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries won three awards at the ninth annual Association of Research Libraries Film Festival on May 8 at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The “ARLies” recognize excellence in multimedia projects that highlight library collections and their impact. This year’s festival featured 34 submissions from major research libraries across North America.   Read More

Duane Watson to lead startup of College of Connected Computing as vice provost for special initiatives

As vice provost for special initiatives, Watson will lead a multi-faceted effort to solidify the strategic underpinnings of the College of Connected Computing. He will also oversee the collaborative strategic planning for the college’s “hub and spoke” model, which aims to connect all computing-based scholarship in every college. Read More

Thirty-three students named in the inaugural awarding of the Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award

The award, funded by the Enhanced Funding and Support Model for Doctoral Education, recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in areas such as publications, awards, patents and other forms of national/international distinction. Read More

Heard Libraries’ research engagement collaborations bolster faculty scholarship

This collaboration highlights an important facet of the academic librarian’s role: leveraging research expertise to find and organize information and evaluate its quality, accuracy and validity to bolster faculty scholarship. In essence, librarians are information specialists who help to translate research into knowledge that has practical and far-reaching applications. Read More

Forward Ever: Vanderbilt celebrates its past and present as it creates opportunities for a stellar future

In keeping with the Sesquicentennial spirit, we celebrate our past, present and future—from our important and long-standing function in the city of Nashville, to the holistic education and opportunities to innovate that our students receive from Immersion Vanderbilt, to our mastery of the cutting-edge technologies that will define our shared future. Read More

Commodore City: Vanderbilt and Nashville continue their collegial relationship into the next 150 years

From arts to athletics to education and innovation, Vanderbilt has been a driving force in helping shape an ever-evolving Nashville into a dynamic, world-influencing city. Read More

Christensen and Wilkey: emerging leaders in psychological sciences

By Jenna Somers Alex Christensen Eric Wilkey Alex Christensen and Eric Wilkey, assistant… Read More

Trips to Italy, Israel highlight the benefits of Immersion Vanderbilt

Immersion Vanderbilt was created to provide new ways for students to develop better critical thinking skills and a stronger ability to navigate a changing world. Read More

Vanderbilt scientists develop an algae time machine, advancing biomedicine

A Vanderbilt scientific team has succeeded in adjusting the daily biological clock of cyanobacteria, making the blue-green algae a more prolific producer of renewable fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, like insulin. Read More

Innovative AI learning technology projects win inaugural LIVE Spark Grants

LIVE, the Learning Innovation Incubator at Vanderbilt University, has awarded the inaugural LIVE Spark Grants to three interdisciplinary teams innovating cutting-edge learning… Read More

Class of 2024 honors loved ones in “The hands that held our hands”

Watch members of Vanderbilt’s Class of 2024 tug at our heartstrings as they talk about the loved ones who’ve supported their dreams. Read More

Vanderbilt joins Meharry Medical College, Fisk University in hosting Tri-Institutional Seminar series

A Tri-Institutional Seminar series has been initiated by the School of Medicine Basic Sciences, Meharry Medical College and Fisk University, focused on trainee development and promoting collaboration and existing ties between scientists affiliated with all three institutions. The series is open to the public. Read More

Welsh leads equity-centered research practice partnership to reduce racial disparities in school discipline

By Jenna Somers Richard Welsh Last year, Richard Welsh reported findings on the persistence of racial disparities in exclusionary school discipline practices. Despite… Read More

VPA and history department examine how the New Deal was run

On May 3 and 4, the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation and the Vanderbilt University Department of History hosted “How the New Deal Was Run,” a conference about the implementation of the New Deal programs that transformed American life in the 1930s and beyond.  Read More

BMJ collaborates with Vanderbilt University’s Heard Libraries to support open access publishing

Leading global health care knowledge provider BMJ has signed a new read-and-publish agreement with the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University. The agreement allows Vanderbilt-affiliated corresponding authors to publish their primary research open access without incurring article processing charges. Read More