Research
Transmission of vaccine-hesitant beliefs among parents is a key predictor of vaccination coverage and disease risk among children
Jun. 19, 2023—Vanderbilt biologists Nicole Creanza and Kerri-Ann Anderson have developed a new mathematical model, rooted in cultural evolution, that represents vaccine hesitancy as a belief that can influence, but not perfectly predict, whether parents will decide ...
inter+SECTIONS: LGBTQ Health + Public Policy with Gilbert Gonzales
Jun. 15, 2023—Gilbert Gonzales, assistant professor of medicine, health, and society, works at the intersection of LGBTQ health and public policy. A subject area where there once was limited data, Gonzales and colleagues have worked to bolster the research available to help inform both the public and the decision makers who form policies that affect health outcomes...
Amanda Lea and Wenhan Zhu named 2023 Pew Biomedical Scholars
Jun. 13, 2023—Vanderbilt researchers Amanda Lea and Wenhan Zhu have been named 2023 Pew Biomedical Scholars. The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of ...
28 Vanderbilt students named 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Jun. 12, 2023—The National Science Foundation has selected 28 Vanderbilt students for its 2023 Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Vanderbilt launches Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative and interdisciplinary advisory board
Jun. 6, 2023—Vanderbilt University has created the Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative and appointed members of an advisory board. Both will center their efforts around scholarship and opportunities connected to the growing use of nascent artificial int...
Thirteen named 2023 Chancellor Faculty Fellows
Jun. 6, 2023—Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2023 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of...
Vanderbilt University’s Ralf Bennartz to lead NASA mission to study ice clouds
May. 24, 2023—Vanderbilt University, led by Professor Ralf Bennartz, will lead a NASA satellite mission investigating Earth's high-altitude ice clouds, backed by a robust grant of $37 million. This endeavor, leveraging the university's climate research expertise, wi...
NEH awards stipend to Vanderbilt’s Meng Zhang for innovative edible bird’s nest research
May. 21, 2023—Vanderbilt's Assistant Professor of History, Meng Zhang, has been awarded a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her intriguing research into the historical and societal implications of the edible bird's nest trade between China a...
NEH grant to help uncover history of lost historic Nashville neighborhood
May. 15, 2023—Angela Sutton has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help fund the excavation of a historic Nashville neighborhood founded by Black Civil War veterans that was demolished in the late 50s/early 60s and to collect the oral hist...
Vanderbilt social, political historian Jefferson Cowie wins Pulitzer for ‘Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power’
May. 9, 2023—Jefferson Cowie, celebrated U.S. politics and culture historian, wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his book that “radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.”