Celebrating Excellence

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