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When parents read to their child, they are helping their child build a foundation for early language and literacy. But research at Peabody shows that children could be developing language and literacy skills at a significantly higher rate if parents tapped into a simple, powerful technique called dialogic questioning. Read More

For Bridgette Brown, a financial aid package without loans meant she could “accept her acceptance” to Vanderbilt—and at a cost less than her in-state option in Arkansas. Read More

At Peabody, researchers are finding that there are many ways math is learned and are developing innovative new ways to teach it. They believe that math is not an unyielding discipline, accessible to only a select few. And, they would argue, math is fun. Read More

New research suggests that holding high-ranking positions may blind people to the unethical practices they are responsible for stopping. Read More

History professor Paul Kramer of Vanderbilt University cites other eras of hostility to immigrants in America, to show that that current anxiety about Muslims is not a new phenomenon Read More

Hiba Baroud is a civil engineer who develops tools that improve infrastructure systems’ reliability and recovery from disasters like hurricanes and floods. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers helped re-write the guidelines for America's Juvenile drug treatment courts. Read More

President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated Jan. 20. Several Vanderbilt professors have opinions about the inauguration and transition. Read More

A trans-institutional team of Vanderbilt social scientists and medical professionals will look at how laws affecting LGBT individuals and families affect their health and the economy. Read More

Research using a computer game concludes teaching fractions on a number line is highly effective. Read More

Findings will inform educators and school administrators developing curricula for the early years. Read More

The method of reproduction should figure into copyright law questions, says Vanderbilt law professor Joseph Fishman. Read More

"Mood ring materials" constitute a new type of smart sensing technology that could play an important role in minimizing and mitigating damage to the nation's failing infrastructure. Read More

Regina Gee works with a fresco at the Oplontis villa in Torre Annunziata, Italy, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. “For the Romans living at the villa, life seems to have been a relentless, never-ending performance,” Gee says. “What you see is wealth and power laid out in the arrangement… Read More

Progress is still possible if both parties are willing to reach across the aisle, writes Suzanna Sherry in "The Tennessean." Read More

Boston Red Sox pitcher and former Vanderbilt University student-athlete David Price will join Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Athletics Director and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs David Williams and Coach Tim Corbin Friday, Nov. 18 at 1:30 p.m. to announce a significant gift to the Vanderbilt Baseball Facilities project. Read More

The temptation to quickly arrange a summit between President-elect Trump and Vladimir Putin of Russian should be avoided, says Tom Schwartz of Vanderbilt. Read More

Overhaul of how political federal employees are appointed is urgently needed, says Vanderbilt Professor David Lewis Read More

When Kelly Davis woke up one morning in April, she told her husband Anthony that she dreamed her face was moving; then she looked in the mirror and saw that it really was. Read More

In the first five years of life, a child’s linguistic, conceptual, and social competence grow enormously. Read More