FCAI News

The Frist Center for Autism & Innovation is excited to announce its partnership with Mentra, a new online platform that assists neurodivergent individuals get quickly matched to job opportunities that are ideally suited to the individual’s needs and individual profile. Using this special link will take you to… Read More

One of the Frist Center’s closest employment partners, The Precisionists Inc (TPI), is currently recruiting for neurodivergent talent in Nashville (they also have locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Ohio). TPI has 25 full-time job opportunities in downtown Nashville in Data and Business Analysis, Business Administration, Information Technology, Software… Read More

Frist Center visiting scholar and autism self-advocate, Hari Srinivasan, has been awarded a prestigious graduate fellowship from the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation’s Fellowship for New Americans. Hari first joined the Frist Center as the Center’s first Distinguished Visiting Scholar, while still an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. Now, Hari… Read More

April marks Autism Awareness Month. In 2022, neurodiversity in the workplace is an issue capturing attention, as conversations on how to create more inclusive spaces for all continue among business leaders. Tim Vogus, deputy director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation and the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor… Read More

The Frist Center for Autism and Innovation has partnered with Mentra: “We’re on a mission to activate the neurodiverse workforce of tomorrow.” Mentra has an online platform that matches neurodiverse individuals with employers that value their strengths, helping to decode the complex world of navigating job offers and putting… Read More

The Frist Center for Autism and Innovation is pleased to announce the start of a new, virtual program this summer called Aspie Bootcamp: Python. This online course was created by and for autistic and neurodivergent folks who want to learn the basics of coding in the programming language Python, with… Read More

In collaboration with the College Autism Network and the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center has released an online resource for career counselors working with autistic adults. Autism Career Empowerment (ACE) provides resources and training for college faculty and staff to provide autistic… Read More

This upcoming summer, the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation will hold its fourth annual Autism Summer Internship Program. This will include a cohort of research interns, all of whom are neurodivergent. This internship will focus on science and engineering (STEM) related projects. You may apply to be a research… Read More

It was announced Sept. 15 that Vanderbilt University’s Frist Center for Autism and Innovation (FCAI) was selected as the recipient of the 2021 Edward M. Kennedy Community Service Award, presented by the American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity (AAAED). Named after U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy—whose decades long political… Read More

Frist Center is announcing our partnership with Jobs for Humanity, an employment-based public benefit corporation working to bring historically underrepresented talent to welcoming employers, to produce a job board specifically for neurodivergent job seekers. The new website, Jobs for the Neurodivergent, is available at… Read More