Celebrating Excellence

Dr. Norris recently completed work done at the University of Florida during her Ph.D. that led to a first-author publication in Cell Reports! She investigated the effects of intramuscular fat, a pathological feature characteristic in diabetes, muscular dystrophies and aging, on muscle regeneration. It was found that intramuscular fat acts… Read More

Dr. Pruett recently accepted a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position at Florida State University in the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders to begin August 7, 2025. Congratulations, Dr. Pruett!… Read More

Dr. Harpreet Kaur was awarded a three year Research Fellowship from Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America to support her project on Probiopep stimulates IgA production for preventing colitis. Dr. Kaur is a postdoc in the the lab of Dr. Fang Yan in the Department of Pediatrics. Read More

Dr. Pranav Karve, a former postdoctoral scholar in the School of Engineering, recently began a tenure-track faculty appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Karve first joined Vanderbilt in September 2016 as a postdoc in Dr. Ravindra Duddu’s… Read More

Jesús Ruiz, a former postdoc in the Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program (CHPP), recently began a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of the Practice in Caribbean Studies at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he also serves as the Director of the… Read More

Dr. Noah Fram was recently a recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) F32 fellowship for project entitled “Temporal prediction and social function: Modeling neural and behavioral correlates of making predictions in time across typically-developing and autistic adults.” Dr. Fram is in the Vanderbilt Music Cognition… Read More

This past August, Dr. Carlton-Smith was awarded a National Institute of Mental Health F32 Fellowship to support her training here at Vanderbilt for her study entitled “Social Reward Responsiveness and Interpersonal Stress as Predictors of Suicidal Ideation in Sexual-and Gender-Minority Youth”. Her primary mentor on this fellowship is… Read More

Dr. Soares Rocha recieved a faculty position at Fluminense Federal University in Niterói, Brazil. He worked in nuclear physics and relativistic fluid dynamics and was an active member of the VandyGRAF initiative (https://www.vanderbilt.edu/vandygraf/). Dr. Soares Rocha was a postdoc in Physics & Astronomy in the lab of Jean-Francois… Read More

Lara Lookabaugh, a postdoc in the Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, has accepted the position of Librarian and Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies at Central Library, Vanderbilt University Heard Libraries.     Keep up with Dr. Lookabaugh on socials! X (Formerly Twitter): @lara_lookabaugh Google Scholar:… Read More

Dudley McNitt had a first author manuscript recently published in the journal, Diabetes. Here is the citation: McNitt DH, Williams JM, Santitoro JG, Kim J, Thomas JW, Bonami RH. “Type 1 diabetes depends on CD4-driven expression of the transcriptional repressor, Bcl6” Diabetes. 2024 Nov 18:db230709. doi: 10.2337/db23-0709. Online ahead of… Read More