Kara Jones

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More