Nashville's research university, where astrophysics, poetry, vaccine science, and the study of democracy share one arboretum campus.
11 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Chancellor
Office of the Chancellor
Thank you for leading Vanderbilt's ten schools with a scholar's rigor and a builder's ambition, and for defending open inquiry and principled neutrality when both were hard to hold.
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Thank you for guiding Vanderbilt's academic mission as provost, and for a career of developmental science on how poverty and stress shape children's self-regulation and learning.
Stevenson Professor of Physics & Astronomy; Director, Frist Center for Autism & Innovation
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Thank you for data-driven astrophysics from KELT to TESS, and for founding the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation so neurodiverse talent is engineered into science rather than out of it.
E. Bronson Ingram University Distinguished Professor of Economics and Health Policy
Department of Economics
Thank you for health and labor economics that measures how policy touches real families, from marriage equality to tobacco control, with care and candor.
Jack & Pamela Egan Chair of Chemistry; Chair, Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Thank you for nanocrystals that light up displays and, more quietly, the molecular machinery of the brain, and for leading Vanderbilt chemistry with the same energy.
W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Thank you for philosophy that meets citizens where they argue, and for teaching a divided country that sustaining democracy means learning to disagree better.
Professor of Computer Science; Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Generative AI in Education and Enterprise Solutions
School of Engineering
Thank you for treating generative AI as augmented intelligence, and for teaching learners far beyond campus how to prompt machines so they amplify human creativity instead of replacing it.
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities; Professor of English; Director of Creative Writing
Department of English
Thank you for poems that hold grief and praise in the same breath, and for directing creative writing at Vanderbilt while editing poetry for the wider world.
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Thank you for using virtual reality and careful cognitive science to understand how the bodily self comes apart in psychosis, and for taking seriously the experiences others dismiss.
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Department of Health Policy; Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Thank you for half a century of plain-spoken vaccine science; when outbreaks frighten the public, your calm, clear explanations have been a national service.
University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita
Divinity School
Thank you for teaching Christians and Jews to read the New Testament together with rigor and grace, a bridge you built at Vanderbilt over decades and keep building still.
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