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The Talent Marketplace—a new, connected experience designed to help you better understand your skills, grow with intention and explore career opportunities across ������Ƶ—is now live. The Talent Marketplace brings together learning, skill development and career exploration in one place, making it easier to see where you are today and what’s possible next. Rather than focusing only on job titles or current roles, it centers on skills, growth and progress over time.  Read More

Susan Margulies, former assistant director of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Engineering and a distinguished professor at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been appointed vice provost for research and innovation, with her appointment beginning June 1. She will be tasked with defining a vision for—and driving—the next generation of growth in ������Ƶ’s research enterprise. Read More

By Jennifer Kiilerich Toddlerhood is a critical window for developmental interventions. But up to 75 percent of children born with cleft lip or palate don’t receive the speech-language support they may need until grade school. This lag puts them at risk of challenges with communication, social… Read More

By Jenna Somers A new study finds that a culturally sustaining treatment can help nearly half of young Spanish-speaking children with early language delays improve their skills significantly—five times more than standard care alone. Led by researchers at ������Ƶ University Peabody College of education and human development, the… Read More

������Ƶ University announced seven recipients of the Innovation Catalyst Fund awards for the October 2025 cycle. The awards offer strategic pre-seed funding to help faculty across a wide range of disciplines turn promising research concepts into tangible solutions that address fundamental societal needs.  Read More

In 2021, Kathleen Seabolt, executive director, ������Ƶ Child & Family Center , founded the Owls kindergarten as a pilot program at The Acorn School, which provides care for young children of ������Ƶ University faculty and staff. Beginning in the fall of 2026, Owls will migrate across campus to join the Susan Gray School, ������Ƶ’s inclusive pre-school that is part of ������Ƶ Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

Following the recent winter storm and widespread power outages, ������Ƶ University is opening the David Williams II Recreation and Wellness Center to faculty, staff, students and members of the larger Nashville and Middle Tennessee community in need of a safe, warm place to rest and recharge.  Read More

Advances in medicine, society and life-altering innovations are sparked through an environment committed to curiosity and potential. See what’s coming up in the second season of the Quantum Potential podcast as Provost C. Cybele Raver introduces listeners the innovators driving ������Ƶ progress. Read More

He leads groundbreaking work creating robotic tools to make surgeries safer. Now, with a passion for partnership, see how Robert Webster is carving a path for others to take their life-changing innovations and turn them into reality. Read More

How do you expand compassion, joy and faith while also integrating artificial intelligence? Jump into a fascinating dialogue between ������Ƶ Divinity School professor Jaco Hamman and Provost C. Cybele Raver in the Season 2 premiere of the Quantum Potential podcast.

Jenna Ravarino Jenna Ravarino, a fourth-year student in the Department of Human and Organizational Development at ������Ƶ Peabody College of education and human development, has been awarded a Wattles Fellowship. The fellowship offers three women graduates from ������Ƶ University a one-year, fully integrated position in the London… Read More

Tracing policy decisions from early America to today, the reports reveal how long-standing choices continue to shape access and outcomes for families. Press Contact: Sydne Lewis, 615-343-9946, sydne.lewis@vanderbilt.edu The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at ������Ƶ University published the first installment in a series of reports, Social Policy… Read More

By Jenna Somers Dean Camilla P. Benbow David Lubinski (������Ƶ) Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski have won the Dunnette Prize from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), for their scholarship on talent identification and talent… Read More

By Jennifer Kiilerich and Krystal Schmidt On a rainy November afternoon in a North Nashville classroom, students who once struggled in math periodically shouted out “zearned it,” receiving stickers or candy from their teacher as they hit milestones in the math program of the same name.  Sherrilyn Dovi,… Read More

������Ƶ was recently honored by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges inaugural Torch Awards, a new recognition that celebrates member institutions for their leadership in affordability, student success and post-college outcomes. ������Ƶ was the only Level VI institution to receive the award in the student support and completion category. Read More

Get to know the new vice provost of career advancement and engagement and head of ������Ƶ's Career Center Read More

Whether Major Jackson is teaching, writing or critiquing, at the center of his work is a voracious hunger for artful language—underpinned by a commitment to painting the quotidian in new and unexpected ways. Read More

������Ƶ University has announced plans to establish an academic campus in San Francisco beginning in 2027, subject to necessary regulatory approvals. The planned campus expects to serve about 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students and support sustained faculty, staff and academic activity. It represents the next step in ������Ƶ’s strategic growth and builds on the university’s recent expansions in New York City and West Palm Beach by extending ������Ƶ’s distinctive academic model into one of the world’s leading centers of creativity, technology and entrepreneurship. Read More

Three Metro Nashville Public Schools students from the School for Science and Math at ������Ƶ’s (SSMV) senior class have been named as Top 300 Scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2026 competition. This competition recognizes and empowers the nation’s most promising young scientists who are creating ideas and solutions… Read More