Communications And Marketing

We are trying to counteract what I call the three main issues of our community—high dropout rates for our population of girls, high gang involvement rates and very, very high teen pregnancy rates. Read More

David Semmel, Jocelyn Bowie, Dorothy Semmel and Mel Semmel, EdD’63. David Semmel and his wife, Jocelyn Bowie, wanted to find a way to honor David’s father, Mel, EdD’63, on his 80th birthday. They decided that a gift to Peabody supporting graduate research would be perfect. When they presented their idea… Read More

Brothers John, BS’88, and Steven Madden, BS’91, credit their successful careers to the training they received in human and organizational development at Peabody. That’s why they, along with their father, John P. Madden, established the Madden Family Scholarship. The scholarship will benefit an undergraduate student majoring in human and organizational… Read More

Stacy Flores, a rising senior, plans a career teaching English to middle or high school students. Mention teaching to senior Stacy Paola Flores and her voice rises with excitement. “I’m really passionate about education,” the Houston native says. “I just love teaching. I want to teach high school English, but… Read More

Employee Engagement: A Roadmap for Creating Profits, Optimizing Performance and Increasing Loyalty (Jossey-Bass, 2009) by Brad Federman, MEd’93. There is mounting evidence that employee engagement keenly correlates to individual, group and corporate performance in areas such as retention, productivity, customer service and loyalty. This book provides a comprehensive framework, language… Read More

Saegert Peabody housing experts think struggling Nashville neighborhoods will get some relief from nearly $31 million in Recovery Act funding awarded to the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “This award is a wonderful opportunity for Nashville and a credit to… Read More

Educators wishing to teach in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) will have the opportunity to earn a Peabody master’s degree designed expressly for them beginning this summer. The new program is focused on improving teaching in urban middle schools and is the result of a partnership between Peabody and MNPS. Read More

Peabody students Alice Bator and Sarah Quirk spent just two months in Uganda during the summer of 2009, but walked away with a lifetime of knowledge in topics ranging from technology, sustainability, diplomacy, community organizing, economic development, women’s rights and much more. Bator and Quirk traveled to Uganda to further… Read More

Dale Ballou, associate professor of public policy and education, has been asked to serve on a committee to advise the Institute of Education Sciences on the strategy to evaluate the use and impact of education stimulus funding (for example, Race to the Top funds), and whether the projects being… Read More

Wyatt Smith Wyatt Smith, Ingram Scholar and president of Vanderbilt Student Government, has been named this year’s recipient of Vanderbilt’s Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship. The goal of the fellowship is to develop future leaders through world travel and experiential learning. Graduating seniors awarded the fellowship have the opportunity to… Read More

Tommie Morton-Young, MA’55, was named distinguished alumna for 2010 for her contribution as Peabody’s first African American graduate as well as her scholarly work and activism during a long academic career. Nashville activist, scholar and author Tommie Morton-Young received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education… Read More

Of students who enter college, the gap in completion rates between minority students and their white peers is about 20 percentage points, with only about 40 percent of minority students graduating within six years. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development is ranked as the best graduate school of education in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the second consecutive year. In rankings published in the May edition of U.S. News & World Report, Peabody programs in Administration/Supervision and Special… Read More

Peabody College has launched a new central research office to create a more integrated and robust infrastructure for faculty, students and staff involved in research. “The Peabody Research Office, or PRO, will serve as the front door for research at Peabody. It was created in response to faculty recommendations,” said… Read More

Substantial investments in Peabody’s strategic plan, continuing success in the recruitment of nationally prominent faculty who garner ever-increasing external funding, and growing numbers of stellar students have propelled Peabody to the level described in our vision of 10 years ago. Read More

When loaded with an anticancer drug, a delivery system based on a novel material called nanosponge is three to five times more effective at reducing tumor growth than direct injection. That is the conclusion of a paper published in the June 1 issue of the journal Cancer Research. “Effective targeted… Read More

Around 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 1, Pam Canady and her husband, Tony, left their Hickman County home for a late lunch. It was raining hard, and water was starting to collect in the pasture between their house and the nearby Piney River. But they weren’t concerned – they had… Read More

One of the hottest new electronic mediums for visual artists comes from a Vanderbilt University School of Engineering student who says he has no artistic skills himself. Ben Gotow, a senior computer engineering major, develops applications (apps) for the iPhone. Two of his artistic drawing apps, Layers and NetSketch, have… Read More

During lean economic times, many business owners look for a lifeboat. In the case of David Ingram, Chairman and President of Ingram Entertainment Inc. (IEI), his came in the form of beer. Or beer distribution, that is. When IEI—a Nashville-based business that distributes DVDs, video games and other home entertainment… Read More

The lure of Hollywood is just as strong today as it was a century ago when motion picture production companies from New York and New Jersey moved west to take advantage of the warm, sunny weather. Vanderbilt alumni have always had a presence in Hollywood, from actress/singer Dinah Shore, BA’38,… Read More