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Tracy Sharpley-Whiting wins SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Apr. 17, 2020—Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, a renowned scholar on race, gender and culture and chair of African American and Diaspora Studies, has won a Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.
Harrington wins prestigious Arts and Letters Award in Literature
Apr. 8, 2020—Centennial Professor of History Joel Harrington has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with a 2020 award in literature.
VanDiver and Lieberman selected for NEH Summer Stipend awards
May. 13, 2019—Faculty members Rebecca K. VanDiver and Phillip I. Lieberman are the only professors in Tennessee to receive 2019 Summer Stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Gordon Logan elected to National Academy of Sciences
May. 9, 2019—Gordon Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology, has been elected a foreign associate of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Thrower named Carnegie Fellow to support research on separation of powers
Apr. 23, 2019—Vanderbilt political scientist Sharece Thrower was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and awarded $200,000 to support her research.
Vanderbilt history professor awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Apr. 12, 2019—Lauren Benton, the Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and professor of law at Vanderbilt University, was named a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.
Art professor receives dual honors for groundbreaking work
Jan. 11, 2019—Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Fine Arts Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is the recipient of a prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman grant.
Career and technical education is focus of $5M research network
Nov. 15, 2018—Vanderbilt's Shaun M. Dougherty will help lead the Career and Technical Education Research Network, a new IES-funded research project.
Laurie Cutting, Vanderbilt educational neuroscientist, honored with NIH Merit Award
Oct. 5, 2018—Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Special Education Laurie Cutting has received a $3 million NIH Merit Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Nursing professor’s video wins advertising’s ADDY awards, heads to nationals
Mar. 29, 2018—A video created to recruit families for a research study run by Terrah Akard, associate professor of nursing and pediatrics, has advanced to the national American Advertising Awards competition.
Vanderbilt’s Jiménez named 2018 AERA fellow
Mar. 2, 2018—Robert T. Jiménez is among 11 scholars selected as 2018 fellows by the American Educational Research Association.
Student loan aversion article tops AERA’s most popular articles
Jan. 10, 2018—Vanderbilt scholars topped the American Educational Research Association’s list of most-read articles in 2017.