Apr. 12, 2024 – QM and DSI faculty member Alex Christensen just received the university-wide “Innovation in Teaching: Generative AI Award!”  This inaugural award “recognizes faculty who have pioneered the adoption of generative AI in the classroom and will inspire the innovative use of this cutting-edge technology to transform higher education.” This honor is given to “faculty who have demonstrated commitment...

Mar. 26, 2024 – Autumn Kujawa has been awarded this year’s Mentoring Award by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University. The Mentoring Award honors a member of the Vanderbilt University community who fosters the professional and intellectual development of Vanderbilt women. Very well deserved. Congratulations, Autumn!

Feb. 16, 2024 – Sarah Brown-Schmidt was selected as a Fellow of Cognitive Science Society! It’s a huge honor and very well deserved. Congratulations, Sarah! You can read more about her research here.

Feb. 02, 2024 – Alex Christensen and Eric Wilkey have been named 2024 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Stars. This award recognizes early career scholars whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. Very well deserved. Congratulations!      

Aug. 25, 2023 – Kate Humphreys was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Research today at the fall faculty assembly. The Chancellor’s Award for Research recognizes excellence in research published in the past several years. Congratulations, Kate!

Nov. 29, 2022 – Meg Saylor for being selected as the 2022 recipient of the Chancellor’s cup! It is given annually for “the greatest contribution outside the classroom to undergraduate student-faculty relationships in the recent past.” The faculty member’s contribution “shall be one of educational importance, relevant to the central purpose of the University.” Such wonderful news! Please find the...

Nov. 03, 2022 – Dr. Laura Novick and graduate student Joanna (Jingyi) Liu published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied highlighting the importance of intentionally and thoughtfully designed figures to explain evolutionary relationships and overcome preconceived misconceptions. This research was featured in Evolution@Vanderbilt! Congratulations!

Oct. 16, 2022 – Dr. David Lubinski earned the 2022 Gifted Child Quarterly Paper of the Year Award! This award was given for an article entitled “Intellectual precocity: What have we learned since Terman?” co-authored by Dean Camilla Benbow. This article documents 8 robust empirical generalizations on what has been learned about intellectual precocity over the past 50 years. Learn more here (article in...