$25 million anonymous gift kick-starts Vanderbilt’s new state-of-the-art science building
Anonymous donors have committed $25 million to build a bold new hub of innovation and discovery at Vanderbilt University—a multipurpose science facility that will shape the future of research and education on campus and beyond. Located on the site of the former Stevenson Center 6 building, this state-of-the-art facility will house faculty in the College of Arts and Science, the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine Basic Sciences. This interdisciplinary space will foster collaborations and power advances such as discovering drugs to treat and cure diseases, creating new diagnostics to improve health and medicine, advancing key technologies for quantum computing and engineering new materials and biomedical devices.Read More
QUANTUM POTENTIAL
Quantum Potential Podcast BONUS EPISODE: Language and its political and social power with associate professor of English Akshya Saxena
We all love to talk. But is language just a tool we use to communicate—or is it something more powerful? How does it impact democracy, identity and access? In this episode of the Quantum Potential podcast, Akshya Saxena, associate professor of English at Vanderbilt, and Provost C. Cybele Raver dig into the fascinating and layered history—and future—of language. Read More
RESEARCH SPARKS
Chezare A. Warren: Rewriting the deficit narrative in education
As a middle school math teacher on Chicago’s South Side, Chezare A. Warren, now associate professor of leadership, policy and organizations at Peabody College and principal investigator of The Possibilities Project, noticed something interesting. Connecting with and encouraging favorable outcomes for students who were generally labeled “troublemakers” came naturally to him, but a lot of his colleagues, while earnest, well-meaning and generally well-prepared pedagogically, found it difficult to build productive relationships with these same kids. Warren wanted to know why. The quest took him from full-time secondary school teacher to researcher at Vanderbilt, where he studies education policy, race, urban education and, at the center of his work, the social conditions that facilitate Black children’s well-being in school.Read More
Sports Business Journal: Changing the Narrative: How Candice Storey Lee reshaped Vanderbilt athletics Chancellor Daniel Diermeier, Candice Storey Lee, vice chancellor for athletics and university affairs and athletic director, Shea Ralph, women's basketball head coach, Clark Lea, E. Bronson Ingram Chair and football head coach, and Mark Byington, Mark H. Carter and Family Men's Basketball Head Coach, are quoted.
New York Magazine: The mirage of the gifted child Research from Jason Grissom, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor and professor of leadership, policy, and organizations, is cited.
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