honors
Kaidi Kang wins 2025 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award
Mar. 20, 2025—Kaidi Kang has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt University’s Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction.” Kang, who successfully defended his dissertation earlier this month, has delivered ten invited talks to date, first-authored papers in Nature...
Shengxin Tu wins 2024 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award
Apr. 17, 2024—PhD candidate Shengxin Tu has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt’s Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction” with $2,500 in supplemental funding. Tu is first author of a recent paper in the prestigious Statistics in Medicine...