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Teresa Torres: 2024 February Student Spotlight
Feb. 12, 2024—Teresa Torres, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pathology Torres is a member of the Vanderbilt Institute of Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee and is actively involved in the Nashville community. She volunteers with Best Buddies, an international organization that promotes friendship and social inclusion for people with special needs....
Migel Cuj: 2024 February Student Spotlight
Feb. 12, 2024—Migel Cuj, Ph.D. student in Anthropology Cuj was awarded third place in the 2024 Peter K. New Student Research Competition for his paper, Beyond Physical Metrics: a Cultural Approach of the Biomedical Categories of Child Growth Standard. He will receive this award at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in...
R. Taylor McNeill: 2024 January Student Spotlight
Jan. 8, 2024—Taylor McNeill, Ph.D. student in the Department of Teaching and Learning Taylor is a fifth-year Ph.D. student who published an article titled “Prove Yourself”: Exploring Epistemological Values in Mathematics Department Support and Oppression on Black Women Faculty. The article was published in a leading mathematics education journal, the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. In...
Jenny Tran: 2024 January Student Spotlight
Jan. 5, 2024—Jenny Tran Graduate Student, Biochemistry Jenny Tran is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Georgia (UGA) in 2018. Her previous research includes peptide self-assembly at Emory University and NMR sparse labeling techniques at UGA. She was awarded the Ethel...
Mellissa Meisels: 2024 January Student Spotlight
Jan. 5, 2024—Mellissa Meisels, American Politics, Political Methodology Melissa has accepted a job at Yale University. In Fall 2024, she will be a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of American Politics, and in Fall 2025, she will start a tenure-track job in the Political Science Department. She has also recently had a paper accepted...
Uday Suresh: 2023 December Student Spotlight
Dec. 7, 2023—Uday Suresh, Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, was selected as one of the eight student paper finalists for the upcoming AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium for his paper titled “Designing Support to Help Health Communication Professionals Convey Numbers Clearly to the Public – A Needs Assessment and Formative Usability Evaluation.” He was also...
Chris Wilkerson: 2023 November Student Spotlight
Nov. 17, 2023—The Graduate School recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and hard work in their scholarly pursuits, research, and community involvement. We would like to recognize the following student: Chris Wilkerson, a 67-year-old graduate student in Vanderbilt Graduate School’s MLAS program, is set to release his second book based on his military service titled “It...
Noah Robinson: 2023 November Student Spotlight
Nov. 15, 2023—The Graduate School recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and hard work in their scholarly pursuits, research, and community involvement. We would like to recognize the following student: Noah Robinson, a clinical psychology doctoral candidate has received funding for a $2M grant on which he will serve as PI. It’s an R44 grant...
Allie Reichert: 2023 November Student Spotlight
Nov. 15, 2023—The Graduate School recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and hard work in their scholarly pursuits, research, and community involvement. We would like to recognize the following student: Allie Reichert, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Anthropology department, gave a talk at the Vanderbilt Owen Business School about her research and community engagement...
Graduate School Names Endowed Scholarship Recipients for Spring 2023 School Year
Nov. 2, 2023—The Graduate School provides students with endowed awards established by generous donors to recognize exceptional scholarship. There are eleven such awards available to students from various disciplines. These awards have different criteria, number of recipients, and award amounts. The Vanderbilt Graduate School has acknowledged exceptional research by Ph.D. candidates throughout the university by nominating and...
Lacy-Fischer Interdisciplinary Research Grants 2023 Recipients Announced
Nov. 2, 2023—The Lacy-Fischer Interdisciplinary Research Grants were established to encourage graduate student-led research collaborations among students and faculty across campus. The goal of these grants is to enable interdisciplinary research teams working across at least two disciplines to seed the collection of preliminary data, add substantively to a project or area in which the student is...
2023 July Graduate Student Spotlights
Jul. 11, 2023—Each month, The Graduate School recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and hard work in their scholarly pursuits, research, and community involvement. We would like to highlight the following graduate students for their achievements: Laura Teal, Ph.D. Pharmacology – successfully defended her dissertation in Pharmacology on June 29, 2023. Laura...
2023 June Graduate Student Spotlights
Jun. 12, 2023—Every month, The Graduate School shines a spotlight on various graduate students for their hard work and dedication to their scholarly works, research, and community engagement. We want to shine a spotlight on the following Graduate Students: Kat Turk, Ph.D. Geology/Earth Science – Received the 2023-2024 Fulbright Study/Research award to Germany and the Deutscher Akademischer...
2023 May Student Spotlights
May. 15, 2023—The Graduate School would like to shine a spotlight on the following Graduate Students: Amanda Howa, Ph.D. Epidemiology – was awarded the Student Leadership Award at the Epidemiology Award Ceremony. Fangcheng Yuan, Ph.D. Epidemiology – was also awarded the Student Leadership Award at the Epidemiology Award Ceremony. Congratulations all!
2023 April Student Spotlights
Apr. 6, 2023—The Graduate School would like to shine a spotlight on the following graduate students! Adoma Manful, MPH – a second-year Epidemiology Ph.D. student, was one of 12 participants selected for the 2023 Society for Epidemiologic Research’s Student Workshop for her proposal entitled “Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening”. Creea Shannon – a Biomedical Informatics...