Jad Abumrad, Distinguished Research Professor of Communication of Science and Technology and creator of award-winning series like Radiolab, More Perfect, Dolly Parton’s America and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, set out in life to be a composer. Perhaps a poet, maybe a fiction writer, but it was music, Abumrad said, that was “running through me constantly.”Read More
RESEARCH SPARKS
Bradley Malin: Balancing AI, healthcare innovations and patient privacy
Altering genetic code is something any sci-fi loving kid has thought about: You can’t have Spiderman or X-Men without genetic engineering. For Bradley Malin—Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics and professor of biostatistics, computer science, and electrical and computer engineering—these mutant superheroes, discovered in his dad’s comic book shop, opened the door to a fascination with genetics and a transforming career.Read More
OWEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Why Shorter Lists Win: New Vanderbilt research on how we misread rankings
Turns out it’s better to be three out of 12 than six out of 24, even though they’re technically the same thing. In a recent paper co-authored with Uri Barnea of Bocconi University and Alice Moon of Georgetown University, Associate Professor of Marketing Jackie Silverman examines how people evaluate rankings when they know both the option’s position and the length of the list. The core finding codifies what many of us are guilty of: preferring options ranked within shorter lists over options with equivalent relative standings in longer lists. Read More
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