‘Black History Month’

Group photo of faculty at the dedication of Vanderbilt's Callie House Research Center: Vanderbilt's Houston Baker, Tiffany Patterson, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Allice Randall, and Gilman Whiting, and University of Pennsylvania's Mary Frances Berry, all dressed in black, gray, and white

Tiffany Ruby Patterson: Raising the voices of the unheard

Feb. 17, 2021—From a young age, Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies Tiffany Ruby Patterson loved to learn. She read voraciously throughout her childhood: a set of World Book encyclopedias purchased by her uncle, an entire library left behind by the former owner of her family’s apartment building. That early love of books continued into...

Associate Professor of Chemistry Renã Robinson, wearing a white lab coat and safety goggles, bends over to look at materials being shown to her by a student wearing a blue lab coat and safety goggles, while two other students, wearing goggles and lab coats, work in the background in Robinson's chemistry lab

Renã Robinson: Helping others through the power of research and representation

Feb. 11, 2021—For Associate Professor of Chemistry Renã Robinson, science has long been about helping people. She was an avid scientist-in-training throughout her childhood and went to college intending to become a cardiac surgeon. But when she got close to the end of her undergraduate career, she said, “I realized I just didn’t have another 12 years...