Joan Brasher

Disability advocates will share their personal and professional journeys and discuss how to dismantle ableism. Read More

Come for a box lunch and hear how you can help others sign up for the Affordable Health Care Act. Read More

In solidarity with the Black Women’s March in Washington, D.C., Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development will host a march for Black Women in STEM at Vanderbilt from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 30. Read More

Film and television actor Andre Braugher (“The Mist,” “City of Angels”) lends his voice talent to the 14-minute mini-documentary about the nation's foremost study of giftedness. Read More

UCLA's Daniel Losen and Peabody's Maury Nation will speak on the high cost of harsh school discipline. Read More

Education professionals from 11 countries will spend the next 10 months in an intensive professional development program at Peabody College for education and human development. Read More

When schools are unable to properly and rigorously implement the complex RTI structure, it’s not fair to say the program itself is ineffective. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are among those from 10 institutions to benefit from $6.5 million in funding by the Institute of Education Sciences to train and develop education scientists. Read More

Education researchers shared knowledge with representatives of research-practice partnerships from across the nation. Read More

Chronic illnesses do not affect only the body. They can also affect the brain. Peabody researchers are doing something about it. Read More

Bruce Compas has a groundbreaking study that shows which coping strategies work best. Read More

Next Steps students graduate The Next Steps class of 2017 includes, from left, Jason van Wulven, Jamal Underwood, Deondre “Dre” Howard, Amber Cameron and Nila Huddleston. Next Steps at Vanderbilt held its annual commencement ceremony in April at the Wyatt Center. Next Steps is Tennessee’s first postsecondary education program for young people with intellectual… Read More

Distinguished Alumnus Mel Chin Visual artist Mel Chin named Distinguished Alumnus Visionary conceptual and visual artist Mel Chin was named as Peabody’s Distinguished Alumnus and addressed graduates at Commencement. Chin graduated from Peabody with a bachelor of arts in 1975. His art is inspired by political and social… Read More

$2.5M grant funds research on link between math and reading A study designed to identify the role that language comprehension plays in math problem solving and reading comprehension will continue its work thanks to a four-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver… Read More

Peabody College was Vanderbilt University’s highest-ranked graduate school in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report “Best Graduate School” rankings, published in March. Peabody ranked at No. 7 (a tie). Its programs also were highly ranked: Administration/Supervision, 1; Special Education, 1; Education Policy, 3; Curriculum/Instruction, 3 (tie); Educational Psychology, 4;… Read More

Class of 1979's Patricia Meadows is providing support to young teachers who hope to serve in at-risk schools. Read More

Patricia and Rodes Hart have endowed eight chairs at Peabody and two at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Read More

While survival rates continue to rise for children with once-fatal health conditions like brain tumors, leukemia and congenital heart disease, that survival comes at a cost: long-term, and sometimes permanent, learning deficits. Psychology and Human Development’s Bruce Compas has released a groundbreaking new study on the magnitude of this problem—and what can be done Read More

A racquet ball-size brain tumor was no match for Makenzie Matthews. Read More

A new partnership with the Governor's office is seeing its members rise in the ranks. Read More