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Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The GlobalVU Initiative will support and foster international research by Vanderbilt faculty and graduate students, bring more foreign scholars to campus and increase our prominence abroad. The initiative will strengthen and nourish existing units engaged in international activity and lower barriers to international work… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA)  By applying cutting-edge Vanderbilt technologies to the immune and genetic analysis of patients with immune diseases, this VRA will generate educational opportunities, discover new biology of immune regulation, and advance personalized immune medicine. The funds will be utilized to coordinate leading-edge trans-disciplinary research… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The rapidly emerging smart city concept aims to enhance the quality and performance of urban services, reduce costs and resource consumption, and provide an infrastructure to engage citizens more effectively. Creating partnerships where the city, adjoining universities and industry collaborate to serve local causes… Read More

 Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) This TIP supports the expansion of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt and globally. The strategy, aimed at increasing Vanderbilt faculty and student connections to the center and to extending its international reach, will be encapsulated in a rebranding of… Read More

Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Historically, vocations in racial justice have drawn upon lifelong commitments of energized practitioners across several generations, whether in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League (NUL) or in innumerable other international, national or local organizations. Drawing… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This TIP is the first formal program to convene faculty from across Vanderbilt University (VU) and Vanderbilt Univer­sity Medical Center (VUMC) to address critical gaps in infrastructure, knowledge and tech­nologies related to the rapidly growing domain of mobile technol­ogy systems for improving health… Read More

Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The Vanderbilt Program for Next Generation Vaccines brings together scientists from the School of Medicine, the College of Arts & Science and the School of Engineering to create a complex pipeline that integrates structural biology with big data for the discovery of novel… Read More

Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) The objective of this TIP is to launch new initiatives related to immersion experiences for Vanderbilt students and innovation in trans-institutional research activities and education, including entrepreneurial endeavors that would benefit from accessibility to a “nano-maker” space. The TIPs funding is enabling VINSE to be… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Despite the critically important information that metabolomics analysis provides and despite the world renowned strengths in mass spectrometry that Vanderbilt possesses, the university does not provide a dedicated metabolomics service. This TIP is establishing a state-of-the-art metabolomics service in the Mass Spectrometry Core of the… Read More

Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) A perfect storm is brewing involving civil infrastructure protection. On one hand, infrastructure protection systems are exposed to more natural disturbances with ever increasing severity, as a consequence of climate change. On the other, the nation’s civil infrastructure is aging and in poor health,… Read More