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Creating an environment where a child can fall in love with learning is the greatest gift a school can give, especially for kids juggling learning challenges. Take a step inside the greatly expanded Roberts Academy and Dyslexia Center at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Jeff Rothschild, BA’77, MS’79, vice chair of Vanderbilt University’s Board of Trust, and his wife, Marieke, have committed $25 million to launch the Rothschild Fellows Program at Vanderbilt’s San Francisco campus. The program will provide cohort-based immersions that combine rigorous computer science coursework with hands-on industry experience for top students in Vanderbilt’s College of Connected Computing. Read More

Dr. Michael Matheny is passionate about combining AI technologies with a human touch. See how he’s helping improve patient care and protecting patients with implanted medical devices. Read More

Students from the Vanderbilt Cloud Innovation Lab for Libraries and Applied Digital Preservation, powered by AWS, represented Vanderbilt University through technical demonstrations, professional networking, and award-winning innovation at the 2026 AWS Summit Washington, D.C. Read More

Dewey Data, an academic research platform that provides access to commercial, third-party datasets, is now available to Vanderbilt users, courtesy of the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Dewey Data acts as a central hub where students, faculty and researchers can license and combine premium data from various industry-leading providers through a single, centralized portal. Read More

Check out this list to find out all the things you've got to try here at Vanderbilt! Read More

A well loved professor becomes the new dean of The Ingram Commons. Hear what Tucker Biddlecombe is most excited about as the Class of 2030 starts their journey at Vanderbilt! Read More

Humanities Tennessee, in partnership with Vanderbilt University, today announced exciting updates to the author lineup for the 2026 Southern Festival of Books. Joining the packed schedule of authors is Pulitzer Prize recipient Jayne Anne Phillips, New York Times bestselling authors PC Cast and Sarah Beth Durst, actress Danica McKellar, Nashville historian Benjamin Houston and more.   Read More

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver has been named president-designate of the University of Michigan and will transition out of her role at Vanderbilt later this fall. She will begin her new role as president of Michigan on Dec. 1. Read More

Ana Christina da Silva Iddings will never forget the day that she—as a Brazilian teenager who did not speak English—flew by herself to Las Vegas. Her parents sent her there to live with relatives she had never met. Da Silva Iddings’ life-changing experiences in Vegas, where she became fluent in English and worked in daycare, set her on a path to help multilingual children who are simultaneously learning English as they learn other subjects in the classroom. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization closed out fiscal 2025 with a record number of invention disclosures and one of its busiest years for licensing. In FY26, the team raised the bar even higher. In FY26, CTTC processed 267 new invention disclosures, a 16 percent increase over the previous year’s 231. That back-to-back growth signals that Vanderbilt’s high-performance innovation engine is accelerating.   Read More

A new method pioneered by the lab of Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Ken Lau is poised to make previously inaccessible medical knowledge that has been locked away in old patient samples newly accessible to scientists. Read More

Creating a shared academic experience for students. Equipping students with the fundamental capacities to succeed in today’s world. Strengthening faculty collaboration across disciplines. These are among the many goals that the A&S College Core, the College of Arts and Science’s general education curriculum, accomplished in its first year. Read More

LISTEN: New ways to treat chronic pain. Creating a “person-centered” judicial system. Challenging outdated ideas about U.S. security. These and more in a special “Highlights of Season 1” episode of the Quantum Potential podcast. Read More

Vanderbilt has launched new multiyear agreements with a select group of suppliers for the purchase of apparel, promotional products, uniforms and awards by Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt Health system, effective July 1, 2026. Read More

Ela Knapik still remembers the first zebrafish she saw under a microscope—two days old, no bigger than an eyelash, tail wiggling, heart visibly beating. That was more than 20 years ago during her search for a postdoc position. That tiny fish has held her attention ever since and helped unravel many of the biological mysteries she has published about during her professional career. Read More

As Vanderbilt celebrates the 20th annual Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association Symposium and joins institutions across the country in commemorating 150 years of the U.S. postdoctoral position, this year’s event recognizes the impact of postdoctoral scholars on research and discovery while looking ahead to the next generation of scientific innovation.  Read More

Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Health departments now have another option for purchasing officially licensed Vanderbilt merchandise. The Vanderbilt Bookstore (Follett Higher Education) is now available as an Internal Campus Supplier of licensed merchandise, enabling purchases through each organization’s standard procurement process. Read More

Thank you to the nearly 2,000 staff who participated in Vanderbilt’s April 2026 Staff Pulse Survey. Your feedback provides an important snapshot of the staff experience and helps us better understand what's working well and where we have opportunities to improve. Read More

Former Dean of the University of Miami’s College of Engineering and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Biswas is globally renowned for his pioneering work in aerosol science. Read More