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  • Vanderbilt Initiative for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Research

    Vanderbilt Initiative for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Research

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Many of the biggest challenges facing humanity, and the biggest research questions facing faculty from across disciplines, have significant spatial dimensions that require sophisticated geospatial thinking, technology, modeling and analysis. Effective geospatial research and education requires intentionally transdisciplinary programs aimed at… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2018

  • Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster

    Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Inspired by UNESCO’s mission to protect cultural heritage in danger of destruction, this program will harness expertise across multiple disciplines and schools at Vanderbilt to develop new digital methods for identifying, studying and preserving historic cultural expressions. This project connects humanistic… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2018

  • VUSAT Initiative

    VUSAT Initiative

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) The VUSAT initiative brings together the advanced resources of Engineering, Anthropology, Earth & Environmental Sciences and Astronomy to design and develop a Space-based platform to study the evolving ecology on earth. The overarching goal is to develop valuable knowledge in climate… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2017

  • Adaptive eBooks for Building Children’s Language Skills

    Adaptive eBooks for Building Children’s Language Skills

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Led by an interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt faculty with expertise in language, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, this project will develop an adaptive eBook that represents a groundbreaking approach to foster early language. The ability to comprehend complex text is fundamental… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2017

  • Biomedical Microscopy – Immersion, Innovation, Discovery (BioMIID) at VBC

    Biomedical Microscopy – Immersion, Innovation, Discovery (BioMIID) at VBC

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) This project seeks to create a collaborative environment across three schools for biophotonics innovation and biomedical discovery within the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center. Students, postdocs and faculty from engineering, physical sciences and biomedical sciences will work together to innovate – by building… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2017

  • Vanderbilt Brain Institute

    Vanderbilt Brain Institute

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) One of Vanderbilt’s flagship trans-institutional centers, the Vanderbilt Brain Institute (VBI) is home to the Neuroscience Training Program, the largest of Vanderbilt’s biomedical programs, with training faculty spread across 22 departments and five schools within the university and Medical Center. This… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2017

  • Initiative for Autism, Innovation and the Workforce

    Initiative for Autism, Innovation and the Workforce

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This project will study the unique capabilities of autistic adults, as well as how to match these capabilities to 21st-century workforce needs and how to develop managers who can leverage the “autism advantage” to fuel innovation in their organizations. This initiative… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2017

  • A Reinvestment in Cryo-Electron Microscopy at Vanderbilt

    A Reinvestment in Cryo-Electron Microscopy at Vanderbilt

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) This project will reinvest in the Center for Structural Biology (CSB) by acquiring a new microscope that will enable the laboratory to remain on the cutting-edge of research. The Titan Krios will replace an aging microscope that is insufficient to support… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2017

  • Data Science Visions

    Data Science Visions

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (VRA) Data science is closely related to “big data”, which focuses on particularly large and complex datasets, but data science is more focused on the process of learning from, and making decisions based on, the data rather than the size of the… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2017

  • Addressing the Epidemic of HPV-Associated Cancers

    Addressing the Epidemic of HPV-Associated Cancers

    Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) This project will develop supportive infrastructure and educational programs that engage an interdisciplinary team of investigators comprised of faculty and students from across campus to lay the groundwork for a consortium focused on HPV-associated cancers. Faculty and students will conduct… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2017