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Padma Raghavan has been reappointed in her role as vice provost, and her title has been updated to vice provost for research and innovation, by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver. Read More

Vice Provost for Research and Innovation Padma Raghavan has promoted two team members and added another to her office to advance research strategy, compliance and integrity, and industry partnerships. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit only one application to the Tennessee Arts Commission Arts Project Support (APS) OR the Rural Arts Project Support (RAPS) program. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit one application to the Tennessee Arts Commission Arts Access (AA) Annual Grant program for the 2024 fiscal year. Read More

Vanderbilt may nominate up to two candidates for the Moore Inventor Fellows competition. The Moore Foundation aims to support scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation’s areas of interest. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit one application to the January 2023 cycle of the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation (CFH) Grants program. The CFH seeks to protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may submit one nomination per category for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The three award categories are: Chemistry, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Life Sciences. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit only one proposal to the fall 2022 VentureWell Course & Program Grants. Read More

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation will host a town hall on Wednesday, Aug. 31, at 10:30 a.m. via Zoom. Read More

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation is now accepting applications for all internal award programs. Read More

Learn to optimize your research computing methods in our upcoming Research Computing Seminar Series, formally known as Pizza and Programming, hosted in collaboration between Research IT and ACCRE. Read More

Join Research IT and Amazon Web Services for a free half-day SageMaker workshop. Read More

Join us for virtual information sessions jointly hosted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, Research IT Services and VUIT. Read More

Grants.gov is migrating its production system to the cloud during an extended downtime from Friday, Sept. 23, at 12:01 a.m. ET through Thursday, Sept. 29, at 11:59 p.m. ET. If you have a proposal due Sept. 22–Oct. 5, it is highly recommend that you create your proposal in VERA before Sept. 22 and route it for approvals as early as possible. Read More

The Bass Military Scholars Program welcomed its fourth cohort of scholars to campus this August. Among the 16 U.S. military veterans who are pursuing graduate and professional degrees across several Vanderbilt schools are a former Army Special Forces officer with tours in Syria and service at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, a Navy officer who participated in the evacuation of U.S. citizens from Libya, and an Army officer who completed the Nepal Army's Jungle Warfare Academy.  Read More

A team of Vanderbilt engineers have completed a collaborative project with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell to design and test a first-of-its-kind exoskeleton that supports U.S. Army soldiers participating in sustainment and logistics operations. Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit up to four letters of intent for the winter 2022–23 cycle of the Mathers Foundation grant program. The mission of The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation is to advance knowledge in the life sciences by sponsoring scientific research that will benefit mankind. Read More

Faculty, representatives from the Office of Research and Innovation and the Office of Government and Community Relations share mobility, smart city, community resiliency, and transit technologies and solutions being developed, built and deployed by Vanderbilt and throughout the region and build connections for future collaborations. Read More

Professor of Art Vesna Pavlović has been awarded a Scaling Success Grant in the May 2022 cycle of the new internal funding opportunity for her research project titled “Woven Wind.” The grant supports faculty as they leverage their research into larger, more competitive awards from federal, foundation or industry sponsors. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) has been invited to participate in the 2022 V Foundation Pediatric Cancer Special Grant Opportunity. Read More