Office Of The Provost

Vanderbilt's Spring 2024 Scaling Success Grant awards support four innovative research projects, empowering faculty to secure expanded external funding. The grant program, initiated in 2022, has already helped its inaugural awardees obtain prestigious grants. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit one application to the Les Paul Foundation Grants program. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate up to three tenure-track faculty per department for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may select one nominee for the Curing Kids Cancer Innovative Research Award. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate one candidate for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends program. Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate two candidates for the 2025 Searle Scholars Program. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit up to 2 nominees for the Susan G. Komen Career Catalyst Research grant opportunity. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit up to 2 nominees for the Susan G. Komen Career Transition Award opportunity. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit up to three letters of intent for the Fall 2024 cycle of the Mathers Foundation grant program. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit two proposals per year to the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant Programs for Organizations. Read More

As vice provost for special initiatives, Watson will lead a multi-faceted effort to solidify the strategic underpinnings of the College of Connected Computing. He will also oversee the collaborative strategic planning for the college’s “hub and spoke” model, which aims to connect all computing-based scholarship in every college. Read More

The award, funded by the Enhanced Funding and Support Model for Doctoral Education, recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in areas such as publications, awards, patents and other forms of national/international distinction. Read More

Vanderbilt University is proud to announce the launch of the Institute of National Security. The founding director and leader of the institute will be retired General Paul M. Nakasone, who has served as commander of U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency, and chief of the Central Security Service. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may nominate up to two candidates for the V Foundation V Scholar Award program. Read More

Vanderbilt University has created a transformational lab focused on leveraging immersive translational AI to drive discovery across disciplines ranging from medicine and materials science to the humanities, social science and education. The new Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) will act as a dynamic regional Translational AI hub, as well as serve as a center of gravity for strategic national partnerships and engagement in AI policy. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit two nominations to the American Diabetes Association for the Pathway to Stop Diabetes Awards—one nomination spanning basic through preclinical research and one nomination spanning clinical through public health research. Each nomination can be for either of the Pathway Program funding mechanisms. Read More

Sixty-six faculty members across seven schools and colleges received Provost’s Faculty Grants for Culminating Projects in Immersion, up 50 percent from the program’s inaugural year in 2023. The goal of the grants is to empower undergraduate students through immersive and impactful learning opportunities that take them from the studio to the lab, to an internship, to service learning in the Nashville community and beyond. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may choose one nominee for the Pediatric Cancer Research Grant Program. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may nominate one candidate each from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program. Read More

On October 17, 2022, Vanderbilt University launched “Discovery Vanderbilt” to embolden faculty, students and staff to pursue innovative ideas through disciplined, rigorous inquiry. Led by Provost Cybele Raver, the university committed $80 million in the effort—and invested $50 million in the first year alone. Read More